George Marten

Research Summary

• I study the century following the First Industrial Revolution.
• Focused on the New Poor Law, friendly societies (mutual insurance), co-operative production, and microfinance: broadly speaking, historical approaches to pooling risk.
• I recently digitised Friendly Society Returns to Parliament 1855-1880.

My Approach

I am interested in documenting lessons from British and Irish economic history via a careful application of historical narrative and econometrics (statistical economic techniques). History allows us to enrich modern empirical methods when studying formative historical episodes!