Items where Author is "Gardner, Leigh"

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2023) Slavery, coercion, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Business History Review, 97 (2). pp. 199-223. ISSN 0007-6805

Gardner, Leigh (2023) Lessons from Liberia in sovereignty and economic development. Africa at LSE (05 Jun 2023). Blog Entry.

Gardner, Leigh (2022) The collapse of the gold standard in Africa: money and colonialism in the interwar period. African Studies Review. ISSN 0002-0206

Broadberry, Stephen and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2022) Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83. ISSN 0014-4983

Feingold, Ellen, Fourie, Johan and Gardner, Leigh (2021) A tale of paper and gold: the material history money in South Africa. Economic History Working Papers (323). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Feingold, Ellen, Fourie, Johan and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2021) A tale of paper and gold: the material history of money in South Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36 (2). 264 - 281. ISSN 2078-0389

Bolt, Jutta and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2020) How Africans shaped British colonial institutions: evidence from local taxation. Journal of Economic History, 80 (4). 1189 - 1223. ISSN 0022-0507

Broadberry, Stephen and Gardner, Leigh (2019) Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, 1885-2008. Economic History working papers (296). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2017) Colonialism or supersanctions: sovereignty and debt in West Africa, 1871-1914. European Review of Economic History, 21 (2). 236 - 257. ISSN 1474-0044

Gardner, Leigh (2015) The curious incident of the franc in the Gambia: exchange rate instability and imperial monetary systems in the 1920s. Financial History Review, 22 (03). pp. 291-314. ISSN 0968-5650

Gardner, Leigh (2014) The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943. Economic History Review, 67 (4). 1089 - 1112. ISSN 0013-0117

Gardner, Leigh and Broadberry, Stephen (2014) Africa’s recent economic success in a European mirror: a historical perspective on avoiding ‘growth reversals’ and achieving sustained growth. Africa at LSE (02 May 2014). Website.

Fourie, Johan and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2014) The internationalization of economic history: a puzzle. Economic History working paper series (203/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Broadberry, Stephen and Gardner, Leigh (2014) African economic growth in a European mirror: a historical perspective. The Economic History working papers (202/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Gardner, Leigh (2013) Fiscal policy in Belgian Congo in comparative perspective. In: Frankema, Ewout and Buelens, Frans, (eds.) Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development: the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared. Routledge explorations in economic history. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 130-153. ISBN 9780415521741

Gardner, Leigh (2012) History matters in assessing African tax systems. Africa at LSE (19 Nov 2012). Website.

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2010) Decentralization and corruption in historical perspective: evidence from tax collection in British colonial Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions, 25 (2). pp. 213-236. ISSN 2078-0389

Gardner, Leigh (2010) An unstable foundation: taxation and development in Kenya, 1945-1963. In: Branch, Daniel, Cheeseman, Nic and Gardner, Leigh, (eds.) Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950. Afrikanische studien/African studies. LIT Verlag, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 9783825898052

Gardner, Leigh (2008) To take or to make?: contracting for legitimacy in the emerging states of twelth century Britain. Discussion papers in economic and social history (73). University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.