Dr Theo Balderston
Contact Details
balderston@manchester.ac.uk
Ext: 53087
Room: N.2.6
Profile
Theo Balderston is a specialist in the macroeconomic and financial history of the first half of the twentieth century, particularly of Britain and Germany.
He is currently Programme Director for the BA programmes in Economic History and Economics and Modern History with Economics.
Recent Publications
'Introduction: The "Deflationary Bias" of the Gold Standard', in Theo Balderston (ed.), World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).
Economics and Politics in the Weimar Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2002: New Studies in Economics and Social History series)
'Income expectations and political instability in Germany 1918-1939', in Ryoshin Minami, Kwan S.Kim and Malcolm Falkus (eds.), Growth, Distribution and Political Change: Asia and the Wider World (Macmillan, 1999)
'A strong German economy: a precondition for the revitalization of the European market?", in Marta Petricioli (ed.), Une occasion manquee? 1922: La reconstruction de l'Europe (Peter Lang, 1995)
"A comparison of British and German monetary policy 1919-1932", in C.H.Feinstein (ed.), Banking, Currency and Finance in Europe between the Wars, (Oxford University Press, 1995)
`The banks and the gold standard in the German financial crisis of 1931', Financial History Review vol. 1 (1994), pp. 41-68.
The origins and course of the German economic crisis. November 1923 ' May 1932 . (Berlin, Haude und Spener, 1993),
'Coping with catastrophes: economic policy, performance and institutions in troubled times 1919-33', Historical Journal 36 (1993), pp. 455-468.
He is currently engaged on a research project with Andrew Marrison on 'The failure of business taxation 1918-1924'.