Leandro Prados de la Escosura Author & Editor

Leandro Prados de la Escosura is Professor of Economic History at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain, and Honorary Maddison Chair in the Faculty of Economics and Business, at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is also Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), UK, Research Associate at the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), UK, and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Academy of History, Spain. He has published articles and books on long-run growth and retardation in Spain, the economic consequences of Latin American independence, the costs and benefits of European Imperialism, and British Exceptionalism at the time of the Industrial Revolution.