Avner Offer

Avner Offer is a British economic historian and professor of economic history at the University of Oxford, England. He is a Fellow of All Souls College and the British Academy. Avner Offers research focus is the development of economic history prosperous society structures to the present day, as well as problems that brings this wealth with them.

Life

Avner Offer was born in Israel and grew up there. After successful studies in history and geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his doctorate in 1979 at the University of Oxford, he taught at York, the Australian National University and the University of Oxford. Offer is married and has two children.

Awards and honorary memberships

• Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2008)
• Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, UK, (2003)
• Fellow of the British Academy ( 2000)
• Trevor Reese Memorial Prize for Imperial and Commonwealth History, (1992 )

Writings

• Property and Politics 1870-1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England. (Cambridge, 1981)
• The First World War: An Agrarian Interpretation. (Oxford, 1989)
• (with P. Bowden ), ' Household Appliances and the Use of Time in the U.S., and Britain since the 1920s ', Economic History Review, second series. Vol 47, 4 ( 1994)
• 'Between the gift and the market: The economy of regard ', The Economic History Review. Vol 50, 3 ( 1997) pp. 450-476
• ' Costs and Benefits, Prosperity and Security, 1870-1914 ', Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 3, The Nineteenth Century (ed. A. Porter), (Oxford, 1999) pp. 690-711
• ' Body Weight and Self - Control in the United States and Britain since the 1950s ', Social History of Medicine. Vol 14, 1 (2001) pp. 79-106
• Why is the Public Sector so large in Market Societies? The Political Economy of Prudence in the UK, c. From 1870 to 2000. (Oxford, 2003) 45pp.
• The Challenge of Affluence: . Self -Control and Well -being in the United States and Britain since 1950 (Oxford, 2006)