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Larry Neal is a Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his B. A. in History at Stanford University in 1962 and Ph. D. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. From 1967 to now, he has been on the faculty of the Department of Economics at Illinois, although he was an Economist-Administrator at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris from 1970 to 1972. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (1982) when he visited the University of Paderborn in Germany, as well as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright Commission (1996-97) when he visited The London School of Economics and Political Science. He was a visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology in 1998.

In 1999-2000, he served as President of the Economic History Association and as President of the Business History Conference.  He is the Founding Director of the European Union Center at the University of Illinois, one of ten such centers funded in the United States by the European Commission in 1998.
He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research

His research interests include monetary and financial history, European economic history and the economics of the European Union. 

Selected Publications:

A Concise Economic History of the World, from Paleolithic Times to the Present, (with Rondo Cameron), 4th edition, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

The Economics of the European Union and the Economies of Europe, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

The Rise of Financial Capitalism: International Capital Markets in the Age of Reason,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. (paperback edition in 1993).

Editor, Explorations in Economic History, vols. 19-34, 1982-1997.

Editor, War Finance, 3 vols., Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar Co., 1994.

(with Lance E. Davis), "Micro Rules and Macro Outcomes: The Impact of Micro Structures on the Efficiency of Security Exchanges: London, New York, and Paris, 1800-1914," American Economic Review, 88:2 (May 1998), pp. 40–45.

"A Shocking View of Economic History, " Journal of Economic History, 60:2 (June 2000), 317-335.

"The "Money" Pitt: Lord Londonderry and the South Sea Bubble, or, How to Manage Risk in an Emerging Market," Enterprise and Society, (December 2000), pp. 659-674..

"How It All Began: The Monetary and Financial Architecture of Europe during the first global capital markets, 1648 to 1815," Financial History Review, 7:2 (October 2000), pp. 117-140.

"The Finance of Business during the Industrial Revolution," in Roderick Floud and Donald N. McCloskey, eds., The Economic History of Great Britain, vol. 1, "1700-1860," 2nd ed., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Dates of National Science Foundation grants:

1982, 1985, 1987, 1990, 1998, 2000, 2002

For full vita, see: vitafull2004.doc