Alexander Klein is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, University of Kent. He taught at the University of Warwick, Centre for Economic Research and Graduate Education in Prague, and the London School of Economics. He also held a position at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and is a Research Associate of CAGE, University of Warwick. His research interests include long-run economic growth; divergence of living standards between Western and Eastern Europe; the second serfdom in Eastern Europe; economic geography; agglomeration economics; long-run comparative labour productivity of European countries; and historical national accounts. He has published in the Economic History Review, Explorations in Economic History, the Journal of Economic Geography, Scandinavian Economic History Review, and Research in Economic History.
