Avner Offer

Avner Offer is a British economic historian and professor of economic history at Oxford University , England . He is a Fellow of All Souls College and the British Academy . Avner Offer's research focus is the economic history development of affluent social structures up to the present day as well as the problems that this prosperity brings with it.

Life

Avner Offer was born and raised in Israel . After successfully studying history and geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and receiving 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.

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 S. Bowden), 'Household Appliances and the Use of Time in the USA, 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' in 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 USA 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. 1870-2000 . (Oxford, 2003) 45pp.
The Challenge of Affluence: Self-control and Well-being in the USA and Britain since 1950 . (Oxford, 2006)