Leslie Hannah, (born 15 June 1947) is a British

economic historian Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and inst ...

and academic, specialising in

business history Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives, and entrepreneurs. ...

. During his academic career, he was most closely associated with the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. His work focuses on the development of corporations, pensions and banking. Hannah first became a research fellow at

St John's College, Oxford St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to pro ...

in 1969. After posts at Essex and Cambridge, he moved to the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

where he remained throughout his career. He also had visiting professorships at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

, in Tokyo and Paris. In July 2019, he was elected a

Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom # C ...

(FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.

Publications

;Books *''The rise of the corporate economy: the British experience'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976) * ''The rise of the corporate economy'' (Methuen, 1983 and Routledge, 2010) * ''Management strategy and business development: an historical and comparative study'' (London: Macmillan, 1976) * with J.A. Kay: ''Concentration in modern industry: theory, measurement and the U.K. experience'' (London: Macmillan, 1977) * ''Electricity before nationalisation: a study of the development of the electricity supply industry in Britain to 1948'' (London: Macmillan, 1979) * ''Engineers, managers and politicians: electricity supply industry in Britain from 1948 to the present'' (London: Macmillan, 1982) *with Margaret Ackrill: ''Barclays: the business of banking, 1690-1996'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) *''Inventing retirement: the development of occupational pensions in Britain'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 and 2009) Chapters in edited works *'A failed experiment: the state ownership of industry', in R. Floud and P. Johnson (eds), ''The Cambridge economic history of modern Britain: Vol.3 structural change and growth, 1939-2000'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

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LSE webpage
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hannah, Leslie Academics of the London School of Economics 1947 births Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Fellows of St John's College, Oxford British business theorists

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