Charles Knickerbocker Harley is an academic economic historian who has written on a wide range of topics including the British industrial revolution, the late nineteenth century international economy, and the impact of technological change. He is a practitioner of the New Economic History.^[1]

At Harvard he studied under Alexander Gerschenkron. He completed his dissertation, Shipbuilding and Shipping in the Late Nineteenth Century, on the transition from wooden sailing ships to steel steamers, in 1972.^[2] He took a professorship at the University of British Columbia. In 1978 he moved to the University of Western Ontario.^[3] In 2005 he joined the faculty of St. Antony's College, Oxford,^[4] where he stayed until becoming an Emeritus Fellow in 2011.^[5]

He has been a frequent collaborator with N.F.R. Crafts.^[6]

He has been awarded The Cliometric Society's Clio Can in 1999 in recognition of his exceptional support of cliometrics^[7] and the Arthur H. Cole Prize by the Journal of Economic History, for his essay, "British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution".^[8]

Selected publications

• Harley, Charles K. (March 1970). "British Shipbuilding and Merchant Shipping: 1850–1890". The Journal of Economic History. 31 (1): 262–266. doi:10.1017/S0022050700078761.
• Harley, Charles K. (2010) [first pub. 1971]. "The Shift from Sailing Ships to Steamships, 1850-1890: A Study in Technological Change and its Diffusion". In McCloskey, Deirdre (ed.). Essays on a Mature Economy: Papers and Proceedings of the MSSB Conference on the New Economic History of Britain 1840–1930 (3rd ed.). New York: Routledge. pp. 215–234. ISBN 978-1-136-58671-2.
• Harley, C.K. (June 1973). "On the Persistence of Old Techniques: The Case of North American Wooden Shipbuilding". The Journal of Economic History. 33 (2): 372–398. doi:10.1017/S0022050700076658.
• Harley, C.K. (Summer 1974). "Skilled Labour and the Choice of Technique in Edwardian Industry". Explorations in Economic History. 11 (4): 391–414. doi:10.1016/0014-4983(74)90026-6.
• Harley, C.K. (February 1976). "Goschen's Conversion of the National Debt and the Yield on Consols". The Economic History Review. 29 (1): 101–106. doi:10.2307/2594509. JSTOR 2594509.
• Harley, C. Knick (January 1977). "The Interest Rate and Prices in Britain, 1873-1913: A Study of the Gibson Paradox". Explorations in Economic History. 14 (1): 69–89. doi:10.1016/0014-4983(77)90015-8.
• Harley, C. Knick (December 1978). "Western Settlement and the Price of Wheat, 1872-1913". The Journal of Economic History. 38 (4): 865–878. doi:10.1017/s0022050700087131. JSTOR 2118661.
• McCloskey, Donald N.; Harley, C. Knick (1981). "Foreign Trade, Competition and the Expanding International Economy". In McCloskey, Donald N.; Floud, Roderick C. (eds.). The Economic History of Britain since 1700, Vol. 2, 1800 to the 1970s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 50–69.
• Harley, C. Knick (June 1982). "British Industrialization Before 1841: Evidence of Slower Growth During the Industrial Revolution". The Journal of Economic History. 42 (2): 267–289. doi:10.1017/s0022050700027431. JSTOR 2120128. S2CID 154492025.
• Harley, C. Knick (December 1982). "Oligopoly Agreement and the Timing of American Railroad Construction". The Journal of Economic History. 42 (4): 797–823. doi:10.1017/s0022050700028345. JSTOR 2121109.
• Harley, C. Knick (December 1988). "Ocean Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740-1913: The Primacy of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed". The Journal of Economic History. 48 (4): 851–876. doi:10.1017/s0022050700006641. JSTOR 2121620.
• Harley, C.K. (1992). "The World Food Economy and Pre-World War I Argentina". In Broadberry, S.N.; Crafts, N.F.R. (eds.). Britain in the International Economy, 1870-1939. Cambridge University Press. pp. 244–268. ISBN 978-0-521-41859-1.
• Crafts, N.F.R.; Harley, C.K. (November 1992). "Output Growth and the British Industrial Revolution: A Restatement of the Crafts-Harley View". The Economic History Review. 45 (New Series) (4): 703–730. doi:10.2307/2597415. JSTOR 2597415.
• Harley, C.K.; Crafts, N.F.R. (February 1995). "Cotton Textiles and Industrial Output Growth during the Industrial Revolution" (PDF). The Economic History Review. 48 (1): 134–144. doi:10.2307/2597874. JSTOR 2597874.
• Harley, C. Knick (1995). "The Classical Gold Standard's Adjustment to Shocks: American Railroads and British Investment in the 1880s". In Reis, Jaime (ed.). International Monetary Systems in Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 23–46. ISBN 978-0-312-12540-0.
• Harley, C. Knick, ed. (1995). The Integration of the World Economy, 1850-1914 (3 Volumes). Cheltenham, Gloucestershire: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1-858-98094-2.
• Harley, Knick (Spring 2002). "Economic History: A Personal Journey" (PDF). The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society. 17 (1): 16–20. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 March 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
• Harley, Knick (Spring 2005). "Welcome to a new Governing Body Fellow:– C. Knick Harley–University Lecturer in Economic History" (PDF). St. Antony's College Newsletter. St. Antony's College, Oxford: 4.
• Harley, C. Knick (December 2008). "Steers Afloat: The North Atlantic Meat Trade, Liner Predominance, and Freight Rates, 1870–1913". Journal of Economic History. 68 (4): 1028–1058. doi:10.1017/S0022050708000806.
• Harley, C. Knick (October 2012). "Was Technological Change in the Early Industrial Revolution Schumpeterian? Evidence of Cotton Textile Profitability". Explorations in Economic History. 49 (4): 516–527. doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2012.06.004.
• Harley, C. Knick (April 2013). Slavery, the British Atlantic Economy and the Industrial Revolution. University of Oxford, Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History. Number 113.

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