About Professor Clive Lee
C. H. Lee M.A., M.Litt. (Cambridge)

Until 1989 he taught in the Department of Economic History, specialising in the development of the international economy and quantification in Economic History. Between 1982-1985 he was responsible for the ESRC training programme in computing and statistics for UK postgraduate students in Economic History. His current research interests lie in the history of economic thought and economic development in the twentieth century, and in the public and private provision of welfare. He is currently editing and contributing to the New History of Aberdeen, commissioned by Aberdeen City Council. His publications include Regional Economic Growth in the United Kingdom since the 1880s, [1971], The Quantitative Approach to Economic History, [1977], British Regional Employment Statistics 1841-1971, [1979], Social Science and History:An Investigation into the Application of Theory and Quantification in British Economic and Social History, [1983], The British Economy since 1700:A Macroeconomic Perspective, [1986], Scotland and the United Kingdom:The Economy and the Union in the Twentieth Century, [1995]. He has published papers in Business History, Economic History Review, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Transport History, Population Studies, and Scottish Economic and Social History. He was editor of Scottish Economic and Social History between 1989-1993, and has been Convenor of the Council of the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland 1994-1998.

Professor Lee has the following administrative responsibilities within the Department of Economics

• Head of Department (until January 2003)
• Disabilities Officer
• Faculty Planning Committee Member

Recent Publications

• Entrepreneurs, Firms and Economic Theory, in D. H. Aldcroft and A. Slaven (eds), Studies in Enterprise and Management, Scholar Press, pp 31-58, ISBN 1 85929 111 7.
• Scotland and the United Kingdom: The Economy and the Union in the Twentieth Century, Manchester University Press, 1995, pp x + 245.
• The Service Sector and Economic Growth, Recent Findings in Economics and Social History, Spring 1996, Vol. 22, pp 5-8.
• If Edinburgh Found Itself Paying the Bill, Parliamentary Brief, Vol. 3, pp 19-20.
• Making Spending Decisions Closer to Home, Parliamentary Brief, Vol. 4, 1995, pp xxiii-xxiv.

Work in Progress

• Health and Welfare, in Fraser, W. H. and Lee, C. H. (eds), The New History of Aberdeen, Vol II, forthcoming 1999.
• Local Government, in Fraser, W. H. and Lee, C. H. (eds), The New History of Aberdeen, Vol II, forthcoming 1999.
• The Impact of the First World War on the Scottish Economy, in McFarland, E. W. and McDonald, C. M. M.(eds), Scotland and the First World War, forthcoming 1998.
• Long Run Determinants of Expenditure Growth in Local Government in Britain.
• The Origins of Leviathan: Local Government Debt 1880-1939.
• A Missing Link in the Evolution of Neoclassical Economics: Pigou's Macroeconomic Model.
• The Finance of Health Provision before the NHS.
• The World Economy in the Twentieth Century: Growth,Chaos and Integration.

Professor Lee can be contacted by email on (c.h.lee@abdn.ac.uk)

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