Research areas

Professor Gregory Clark is one of the world’s leading economic historians on questions of social mobility and The Industrial Revolution. He is currently Danish National Research Foundation chair and a professor at the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) at the Department of Economics, SDU. Furthermore, he is a Visiting Professor at London School of Economics (LSE) and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Davis, which is an institution he has contributed greatly to across three decades with research, teaching and leadership in a variety of positions and chairpersonships.

Gregory Clark has a very strong publication record across many different subjects including the economic history of England, The Industrial Revolution and social mobility. He has been published in both leading economic journals such as Journal of Political Economy and American Economic Review (AER), as well as distinguished journals outside his field like Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). He has published multiple books with Princeton University Press. His research and status as a leading economic historian have been recognized in various ways. Among these is the prestigious appointment as Research Fellow for the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in 2016 and as a Fellow at the Cliometric Society in 2020, as well as through several prizes and extensive press coverage in both the United States and Europe.

Gregory is also an accomplished PI, teacher and supervisor having supervised many PhD students and postdocs. As a PI he has led numerous large projects with substantial grants including his current grant from the Danish National Research Foundation of around 10 million Danish kroner.

Gregory has made many other services to his profession. He has been on the board of directors and Chair of the Editorial Board at University California Press. A large number of other journals have also had Gregory as an editor or on the editorial board including among many others European Review of Economic History, Research in Economic History and Journal of Economic History.

Research interests

Gregory Clark’s research has a wide range covering many different aspects of economic history, but his primary fields of interest are the economic history of England, The Industrial Revolution and especially intergenerational social mobility.