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Peter Solar, PhD

Professor
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Tel. +32 2 629 27 95 / Fax +32 2 629 36 37
E-mail: peter.solar@vub.ac.be

Subjects taught:
  • Introduction to Business
  • European Economy
  • Senior Seminar

Education:
Stanford University
Ph.D. in Economics - 1987
Stanford, California, USA

Swarthmore College
Bachelors of Arts in Economics - 1972
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA

Research Interests:
  • Irish industry, agriculture and trade, 18-19th centuries
  • Belgian economic history of the 20th century
  • Family firms
  • Public monopsony
  • European linen and jute industries, 1780 - 1914

Select Publications:

“Shipping and economic development in nineteenth-century Ireland”, Economic History Review, 59 (2006), forthcoming

"The Benelux countries”, in M.-S. Schulze, ed., Western Europe: Economic and Social Change since 1945 (Harlow, 1999), pp. 255-269

“The potato famine in Europe”, in C. O Grada, ed., Famine 150 (Dublin, 1997), pp. 113-128

Languages:
English, Dutch and French

Nationality:
American