Nicholas Crafts
Nicholas Francis Robert Crafts CBE (9 March 1949 – 6 October 2023) was a British economist who was known for his contributions to economic history, in particular on the Industrial Revolution.[1]
He was Professor of Economic History at the University of Sussex Business School from 2019 until his death, Professor of Economics and Economic History at the
His main fields of interest were the
During the 1980s Crafts argued that during the Industrial Revolution an abnormally high (compared to countries which industrialised later) proportion of the British economy came to be devoted to industry and international trade, and that the British economy always tended to grow slowly. When Britain was overtaken by Germany and the USA - both larger countries - in the late nineteenth century, this was not because of any deceleration of British performance.
Early life
Crafts attended Brunts Grammar School, Mansfield. He was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated with a BA in Economics in 1970.[2]
Career summary
- From 1971 to 1972 he was a lecturer in Economic History at the University of Exeter.
- From 1974 to 1976 he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
- From 1977 to 1986 he was a fellow and praelector in economics at University College, Oxford.
- From 1987 to 1988 he was Professor of Economic History at the University of Leeds and from 1988 to 1995 he was Professor of Economic History, at the University of Warwick.
- From 1995 to 2005 he was Professor of Economic History, at the London School of Economics.
- In 2005 he rejoined the University of Warwick, where he lectured in Economic History.
Crafts was appointed
Personal life and death
Crafts was born on 9 March 1949 in Nottingham, England. He died from sepsis on 6 October 2023, at the age of 74.[4][5]
Crafts and the British Industrial Revolution
Crafts, along with
Selected publications
- Edited with Gianni Toniolo. Economic Growth in Europe since 1945, Cambridge University Press, 1996, ISBN 0521496276
- 1987, "Economic History," The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, v. 2, pp. 37–42.
- 1985, "British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution"
References
- ^ Strauss, Delphine (13 October 2023). "Nicholas Crafts, economic historian, 1949-2023". Financial Times.
- ^ CRAFTS, Prof. Nicholas Francis Robert’, Who's Who 2018, A & C Black, 2018; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2017 accessed 8 January 2018
- ^ "No. 60895". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2014. p. b9.
- ^ "Nicholas Crafts CBE". The Times. 12 October 2023. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ^ "Professor Nick Crafts". The Times. 15 November 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
- ^ Crafts, Nick (1985). British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution. Oxford UP.
- ^ Griffin, Emma (2010). A Short History of the British Industrial Revolution. Palgrave.
- ^ Griffin, Emma. "Industrial revolution: interpretations from 1830 to the present". Retrieved 7 February 2013.