O'Brien, Patrick

Number of items: 90.
Economic History
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Deng, Kent (2025). The Kuznetsian paradigm for the study of China’s economic history. In Magee, G. B. & Deng, K. (Eds.), The European Miracle and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Professor E. L. Jones . Palgrave Macmillan. [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • O'Brien, Patrick K., Palma, Nuno (2023). Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: the Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–1844. Economic History Review, 76(1), 305 - 329. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13191 picture_as_pdf
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2022). Was the British industrial revolution a conjuncture in global economic history? Journal of Global History, 17(1), 128 - 150. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022821000127 picture_as_pdf
  • Deng, Kent, O'Brien, Patrick (2021). The Kuznetsian paradigm for the study of modern economic history and the Great Divergence with appendices of literature review and statistical data. (Economic History Working Papers 321). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • O'brien, Patrick K., Palma, Nuno (2020). Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act and the regime shift to paper money, 1797-1821. European Review of Economic History, 24(2), 390 - 426. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hez008
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2019). The precocious mechanization of a global industry: English cotton textile production from the Flying Shuttle (1733) to the self-acting mule (1825): a bibliographical survey and critique. (Economic History Working Papers 295/2019). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department. picture_as_pdf
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2018). Cosmographies for the discovery, development and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge in pre-industrial Europe and Late imperial China: a survey and speculation. (Economic History working papers 289). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2017). The contributions of warfare with revolutionary and Napoleonic France to the consolidation and progress of the British industrial revolution: revised version of working paper 150. (Economic History working papers 264/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent, O'Brien, Patrick (2017). How well did facts travel to support protracted debate on the history of the Great Divergence between Western Europe and Imperial China? (Economic History Working Papers 257/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science, Economic History Department.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2017). Was the first industrial revolution a conjuncture in the history of the world economy? (Economic History Working Papers 259/2017). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Deng, Kent (2015). Locating a chronology for the great divergence: a critical survey of published data deployed for the measurement of nominal wages for Ming and Qing China. (Economic History working paper series 213/2015). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Deng, Kent, O'Brien, Patrick (2014). Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 – c.1840. (Economic History Working Paper Series 207/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2013). Fiscal, financial and monetary foundations for the formation of nation states in the west compared to imperial states in the east c.1415–c.1839. Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 11(3), 161-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2013.814455
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2013). Historical foundations for a global perspective on the emergence of a Western European regime for the discovery, development and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge. (Economic history working paper series). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2013). Historical foundations for a global perspective on the emergence of a western European regime for the discovery, development, and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge. Journal of Global History, 8(1), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022813000028
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2012). Fiscal and financial preconditions for the formation of developmental states in the west and the east from the conquest of Ceuta (1415) to the opium War (1839). Journal of World History, 23(3), 513-553. https://doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2012.0090
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2011). The nature and historical evolution of an exceptional fiscal state and its possible significance for the precocious commercialization and industrialization of the British economy from Cromwell to Nelson. Economic History Review, 64(2), 408-446. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2010.00538.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2011). The contributions of warfare with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France to the consolidation and progress of the British industrial revolution. (Economic History Working Papers 150/11). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Duran, Xavier (2010). Total factor productivity for the Royal Navy from victory at Texal (1653) to triumph at Trafalgar (1805). (Economic History Working Papers 134/10). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2009). Taxation for British mercantilism from the Treaty of Utrecht (1713). In Mobilizing Money for War . BiblioBazaar.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2008). The governance of the British economy from mercantilism to liberal imperialism. In Chang, H. (Ed.), Institutional Change and Economic Development (pp. 177-198). United Nations University.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2008). The history, nature and economic significance of an exceptional fiscal state for the growth of the British economy, 1453-1815. (Economic History Working Papers 109/08). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Griffiths, Trevor, Hunt, Philip, O'Brien, Patrick (2008). Scottish, Irish and imperial connexions: parliament and the three kingdoms and the mechanization of the cotton pinning in eighteenth century Britain. Economic History Review, 61(3), 625-650. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00414.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2007). The triumph and denouement of the British fiscal state: taxation for the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815. (Economic History Working Papers 99/07). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2007). Global economic history as the accumulation of capital through a process of combined and uneven development: an appreciation and critique of Ernest Mandel. Historical Materialism, 15(1), 75-103. https://doi.org/10.1163/156920607X171609
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2006). Contentions of the purse between England and its European rivals from Henry V to George IV. Journal of Historical Sociology, 19(4), 341-363. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2006.00287.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2006). Mercantilist institutions for the pursuit of power with profit. The management of Britain’s national debt, 1756-1815. (Economic History Working Papers 95/06). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2006). The Hanoverian state and defeat of the continental system. In Findlay, R., Henrikson, R. G., Lindgren, H. & Lundahl, M. (Eds.), Eli Heckscher, International Trade, and Economic History (pp. 373-408). MIT Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2006). Colonies in a globalizing economy (1815-1948). In Gills, B. & Thompson, W. (Eds.), Globalization and Global History (pp. 248-291). Routledge.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2006). Historical traditions and modern imperatives for the restoration of global history. Journal of Global History, 1(1), 3-39. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022806000027
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2006). Provincializing the First Industrial Revolution. (Working Papers of the Global Economic History Network (GEHN) 17/06). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2005). The economics of European expansion overseas. In Bulmer-Thomas, V. (Ed.), Cambridge Economic History of Latin Ameria (pp. 7-42). Cambridge University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2005). Fiscal and financial preconditions for the rise of British naval hegemony, 1485-1815. (Economic History Working Papers 91/05). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2005). Aristocracies and European progress under the ancien regime. In Jannsens, P. & Yun, B. (Eds.), European Aristocracies and Colonial Elites (pp. 247-264). Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2004). Colonies in a globalizing economy 1815-1948. (Working Papers of the Global Economic History Network (GEHN) 08/04). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Riello, Giorgio, O'Brien, Patrick (2004). Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: analyses, perceptions and conceptions of Britain’s precocious transition to Europe’s first industrial society. (Economic History Working Papers 84/04). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2003). Myths of hegemony. New Left Review, 24,
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2003). Fiscal exceptionalism: Great Britain and its European rivals from civil war to triumph at Trafalgar and Waterloo. In O'Brien, P. & Winch, D. (Eds.), The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914 (pp. 245-266). Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2003). The deconstruction of myths and reconstruction of metanarratives in global histories of material progress. In Stuchtey, B. & Fuchs, E. (Eds.), Writing World History : 1800-2000 (pp. 67-90). Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Cleese, Armand (2002). Two hegemonies: Britain 1846-1914 and the United States 1941-2001. Ashgate Dartmouth.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Winch, Donald (2002). The political economy of British historical experience, 1688-1914. Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2001). Fiscal exceptionalism: Great Britain and its European rivals: from civil war to triumph at Trafalgar and Waterloo. (Economic History Working Papers 65/01). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2001). Aristocratic government and the British economy, 1688-1914. In Stearns, P. N. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of European Social History: From 1350 to 2000 . Charles Scribner and Company.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2001). Urban achievement in early modern Europe : golden ages in Antwep, Amsterdam, and London. Cambridge University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2000). Mercantilism and imperialism in the rise and decline of the Dutch and British economies 1585-1815. De Economist, 148(4), 469-501. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004130032200
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2000). Philips world history encyclopaedia. Octopus Publishing Group Limited.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2000). Merchants and bankers as patriots or speculators? Foreign commerce and monetary policy in wartime, 1793-1815. In McCusker, J. J. & Morgan, K. (Eds.), The Early Modern Atlantic Economy (pp. 250-277). Cambridge University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1999). Atlas of world history. Octopus Publishing Group Limited.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Hunt, Philip A (1999). England, 1485-1815. In Bonney, R. (Ed.), The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe, C. 1200-1815 (pp. 53-100). Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1998). Industrialization. Routledge.
  • Lewis, Colin M., O'Brien, Patrick (1998). Industry in Latin America. In Industrialisation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy (pp. 427-461). Routledge.
  • Bruland, Kristine, O'Brien, Patrick (Eds.) (1998). From family firms to corporate capitalism: essays in business and industrial history in honour of Peter Mathias. Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Bruland, Kristine (1998). From family firms to corporate capitalism : essays in business and industrial history. Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1998). Inseperable connexions: trade economy, fiscal state and the expansion of empire, 1688-1815. In Marshall, P. (Ed.), The Oxford History of the British Empire. Volume Ii, the Eighteenth Century . Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1998). Max Weber, religion and the work ethic. In Jeremy, D. J. (Ed.), Religion, Business, and Wealth in Modern Britain (pp. 108-114). Routledge.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Griffiths, Trevor, Hunt, Philip (1998). The curious history and imminent demise of the challenge and response model. In Berg, M. & Bruland, K. (Eds.), Technological Revolutions in Europe : Historical Perspectives (pp. 119-137). Edward Elgar.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1997). The security of the realm and the growth of the economy, 1688-1914. In Clarke, P. & Trebilcock, C. (Eds.), Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance (pp. 49-72). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.2277/0521563178
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1997). The Britishness of the first industrial revolution and the British contribution to the industrialization of 'follower countries' on the mainland, 1756-1914. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 8(3), 48-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592299708406055
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1996). Path dependency, or why Britain became an industrialized and urbanized economy long before France. Economic History Review, 49(2), 213-249. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1996.tb00564.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1994). The Industrial Revolution in Europe. John Wiley & Sons.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Heath, D (1994). English and French landowners 1688-1789. In Thompson, F. (Ed.), Landowners, Capitalists, and Entrepreneurs : Essays for Sir John Habakkuk (pp. 23-62). Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1994). The state and the ecoonomy, 1688-1815. In Floud, R. & McCloskey, D. (Eds.), The Economic History of Britain Since 1700 . Cambridge University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Escosura, Leandro Prados De La (1992). Agricultural productivity and European industrialization, 1890-1980. Economic History Review, 45(3), 514-536. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1992.tb02150.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Quinault, Roland E (1992). The industrial revolution and British society. Cambridge University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1991). The foundations of European industrialization: from the perspective of the world. Journal of Historical Sociology, 4(3), 288-316. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.1991.tb00121.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1991). Political components of the industrial revolution: parliament and the English cotton textile industry, 1660-1741. Economic History Review, 44(3), 395-423. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1991.tb01271.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1991). Exports and the growth of the British economy, 1688-1802. In Solow, B. L. (Ed.), Slavery and the Rise of the Atlantic System . Cambridge University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1991). Some taxonomic reflextions on technical progress in western Europe, 1750-1850. In Mathias, P. & Davis., J. A. (Eds.), Innovation and Technology in Europe : From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day . Basil Blackwell Publisher.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1990). European industrialisation from the voyages of discovery to the industrial revolution. In Pohl, H. (Ed.), The European Discovery of the World and Its Economic Effects on Pre-Industrial Society, 1500-1800 . Franz Steiner Verlag.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1988). The costs and benefits of British imperialism 1846–1914. Past and Present, 120(1), 163-200. https://doi.org/10.1093/past/120.1.163
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1988). The political economy of British taxation, 1660-1815. Economic History Review, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1988.tb00453.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1988). The economic effects of the American civil war. Humanities Press International.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1987). Britain's economy between the wars: a survey of a counter-revolution in economic history. Past and Present, 115(1), 107-130. https://doi.org/10.1093/past/115.1.107
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1987). Economic growth in Britain and France, 1780-1914 : two paths to the twentieth century. George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1985). Agriculture and the home market for English industry, 1660—1820. English Historical Review, C(CCCXCV), 773-800. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCVII.773
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1984). Europe and the world economy, 1492-1789. In Bull, H. & Watson, A. (Eds.), The Expansion of International Society . Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1983). European economic development: a reply. Economic History Review, 36(4), 584-585. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1983.tb01250.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Fremdling, Rainer (1983). Productivity in the economies of Europe. Klett-Cotta.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1983). Railways and the economic development of Western Europe, 1830-1914. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1982). European economic development: the contribution of the periphery. Economic History Review, 35(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1982.tb01183.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1981). Income distribution in the industrial revolution. In Floud, R. & McCloskey, D. (Eds.), The Economic History of Britain Since 1700 . Cambridge University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1977). Agriculture and the industrial revolution. Economic History Review, 30(1), 166-181. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1977.tb00260.x
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1977). The new economic history of the railways. Croom Helm.
  • O'Brien, Patrick, Mabro, R (1970). Structural changes in the Egyptian economy, 1937-1965. In Cook, M. A. (Ed.), Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East: From the Rise of Islam to the Present Day . Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1968). The long term growth of agricultural production in Egypt, 1821-1962. In Holt, P. M. (Ed.), Political and Social Change in Modern Egypt: Historical Studies From the Ottoman Conquest to the United Arab Republic . Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1966). The revolution in Egypt’s economic system: from private to socialism, 1952-1965. Oxford University Press.
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1964). An economic appraisal of the Egyptian revolution. The Journal of Development Studies, 1(1), 93-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220386408421147
  • O'Brien, Patrick (1959). British incomes and property in the early nineteenth century. Economic History Review, 12(2), 255-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1959.tb00943.x
    • Economics
  • O'brien, Patrick K., Palma, Nuno (2020). Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act and the regime shift to paper money, 1797-1821. European Review of Economic History, 24(2), 390 - 426. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hez008
    • LSE
  • O'Brien, Patrick K., Palma, Nuno (2023). Not an ordinary bank but a great engine of state: the Bank of England and the British economy, 1694–1844. Economic History Review, 76(1), 305 - 329. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13191 picture_as_pdf
    • Law School
  • O'Brien, Patrick (2016). Judges and politics: the parliamentary contributions of the Law Lords 1876-2009. Modern Law Review, 79(5), 786-812. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12215
  • Hazell, Robert, O'Brien, Patrick (2016). Meaningful dialogue: judicial engagement with parliamentary committees at Westminster. Public Law,