A Millennial View of Spain's Development: Essays in Economic History

Leandro Prados de la Escosura is an Emeritus Professor of Economic History at Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain, and a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), London, UK. Previously, he has taught at Georgetown University (Prince of Asturias Professor), USA, and the University of California, San Diego, USA. He is currently Fundación Rafael del Pino Chair and has been the Honorary Maddison Chair, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Leverhulme Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE), United Kingdom, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford UK, and the LSE, and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

Prados de la Escosura served as President of the European Historical Economics Society (EHES) and as a Trustee of the Cliometric Society and EHES. He belonged to the Executive Committee of the International Economic History Association. He is an editor of the Economic History Review and a member of the Advisory Board of Cliometrica, the European Review of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and the Scandinavian Economic History Review. He is a former editor of Revista de Historia Económica/ Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History and a former associate editor of the Journal of Economic Surveys.

He is the author of Human Development and the Path to Freedom (2022, Cambridge University Press), Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015 (2017, Palgrave MacMillan), and the editor of Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815 (2004, Cambridge University Press). His current research interests are economic freedom and well-being in a historical perspective and economic change and inequality in Spain in the very long run.

Leandro Prados de la Escosura 是西班牙馬德里卡洛斯三世大學的經濟史名譽教授，以及英國倫敦經濟與政策研究中心（CEPR）的研究員。此前，他曾在美國喬治城大學（阿斯圖里亞斯王子教授）和美國加州大學聖地牙哥分校任教。他目前擔任拉斐爾·德爾·皮諾基金會的講座教授，並曾擔任荷蘭格羅寧根大學的榮譽麥迪遜講座教授、英國倫敦政治經濟學院（LSE）的Leverhulme教授，以及英國牛津大學全靈學院和LSE的訪問研究員，還曾是意大利佛羅倫斯歐洲大學研究所的Jean Monnet研究員。

Prados de la Escosura 曾擔任歐洲歷史經濟學會（EHES）會長，以及計量經濟學會和EHES的受託人。他是國際經濟歷史協會執行委員會的成員。他是《Economic History Review》的編輯，並且是《Cliometrica》、《European Review of Economic History》、《Explorations in Economic History》和《Scandinavian Economic History Review》的顧問委員會成員。他曾擔任《Revista de Historia Económica》/《Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History》的編輯，以及《Journal of Economic Surveys》的副編輯。

他是《Human Development and the Path to Freedom》（2022年，劍橋大學出版社）、《Spanish Economic Growth, 1850-2015》（2017年，Palgrave MacMillan）的作者，並編輯了《Exceptionalism and Industrialisation: Britain and its European Rivals, 1688-1815》（2004年，劍橋大學出版社）。他目前的研究興趣是從歷史角度探討經濟自由與福祉，以及西班牙長期的經濟變遷與不平等。