150 years of regional GDP: United Kingdom and Ireland

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• Frank Geary and Tom Stark
• Monday 08 May 2017, 13:00-14:00
• Seminar Room 5, Faculty of History.

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Estimates of regional GDP for the UK for the census years between 1861 and 2011 indicate that regional inequality displays a U shape. Outer Britain and Ireland caught up on London and the South East to 1911. Convergence became divergence after 1911. Between 1931 and 1951, convergence picked up again. Measured dispersion of regional incomes remained at historic lows between 1951 and 1971. This has gone decisively into reverse since 1991. The Republic Ireland has gone from being the poorest region of the UK in the nineteenth century to the second richest in the British Isles in the twenty first.

This talk is part of the Quantitative History Seminar series.

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