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Professor of Economics, University of Warwick

Mark Harrison is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is also a research associate of Warwick’s ESRC Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy and a research fellow of the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University. He writes on the history of communism and the economics of fighting, stealing, cheating, lying, and spying

Experience

  • 1998–present
    Professor of Economics, University of Warwick
  • 2009–present
    Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Publications

  • 2016
    One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State, Hoover Institution Press
  • 2014
    The Economics of Coercion and Conflict , World Scientific Publishing: The Tricontinental Series on Global Economic Issues
  • 2013
    Accounting for Secrets, Journal of Economic History
  • 2012
    The Frequency of Wars, Economic History Review
  • 2011
    Great War, Civil War, and Recovery: Russia’s National Income, 1913 to 1928, Journal of Economic History

Honours

The Alec Nove Prize (1997); The Russian National Prize for Applied Economics (2012)