Edward Anthony Wrigley

Tony Wrigley in the 1980s

Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley , Fellow of the British Academy (born August 17, 1931 , commonly known as Tony Wrigley ) is an economic historian and historical demographer .

academic career

Wrigley and Peter Laslett (1915–2001) jointly founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure in 1964 . He was 1994-2000 Master of Corpus Christi College of Cambridge University and was appointed in 1980 as a Fellow of the British Academy, whose presidency he held 1997-2001.

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In his scientific life, Wrigley was particularly concerned with the period before and during the Industrial Revolution . The research focus of Wirgley's work is particularly the population history during this transformation phase as well as the significance and effects of the transition from a traditional organic resource base to a mineral, largely coal-based energy supply . In addition, he devoted himself to the classic economists Adam Smith , David Ricardo , Thomas Robert Malthus and John Stuart Mill .

Among many other publications, Wrigley et al. a. with the book Continuity, Chance and Change published in 1988 , in which he a. a. explained why Malthus population law did not come into effect due to the conversion of the energy base. In 2010, Energy and the English Industrial Revolution, a monograph , was published in which Wrigley explained the importance of coal use for not disrupting the economic growth triggered by the Industrial Revolution .

Awards

In 1989 he was accepted as a full member of the Academia Europaea . Since 2001 he has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . In 2005 he received the Leverhulme Medal from the British Academy . He has received several honorary doctorates for his academic work .

Publications

• Industrial growth and population change. A regional study of the coalfield areas of north-west Europe in the later nineteenth century. Cambridge University Press, 1961.
• as editor: An introduction to English historical demography from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1966.
• Population and history. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1969, ISBN 0-303-17579-6 .
• as editor: Nineteenth-century society essays in the use of quantitative methods for the study of social data. Cambridge University Press, 1972, ISBN 0-521-08412-1 .
• Population private choice and public policy (The Essex Hall lecture). The Lindsey Press, London 1972.
• Identifying people in the past. Arnold, London 1973, ISBN 0-7131-5694-5 .
• People, cities, and wealth. The transformation of traditional society. Blackwell, 1987, ISBN 0-631-13991-5 .
• The population history of England, 1541-1871. A reconstruction. Harvard University Press, Cambridge / Mass 1981, ISBN 0-674-69007-9 .
• People Cities and Wealth. The Transformation of Traditional Society. Blackwell, 1989, ISBN 0-631-16556-8 .
• Continuity, Chance and Change. The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England. Cambridge University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-521-39657-3 .
• Poverty, Progress, and Population , Cambridge University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-521-82278-5 .
• with RS Davies, JE Oeppen, RS Schofield: English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837. Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-521-02238-X .
• Industrial Growth and Population Change. Cambridge University Press, 2007, ISBN 0-521-02553-2 .
• Energy and the English Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-521-76693-7 .
• The Path to Sustained Growth. England's Transition from an Organic Economy to an Industrial Revolution. Cambridge University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-316-50428-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Edward Anthony Wrigley in the catalog of the German National Library
• Tony Wrigley on the University of Cambridge website
• Tony Wrigley at Debrett's

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Times, August 17, 2009 (access only with registration)
2. ↑ Sir Tony Wrigley ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . British Academy website . Retrieved April 18, 2014.  
3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter W. (PDF; 852 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 12, 2018 . 
4. ^ Member History: Sir Anthony Wrigley. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 2, 2019 (with biographical notes). 
5. ↑ Leverhulme Medal ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . British Academy website. Retrieved June 22, 2014.