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Carlo J. Morelli

Contact:
c.j.morelli@dundee.ac.uk
Tel:+44 (0)1382 384380
Fax:+44 (0)1382 384691
Postal Address:
Economic Studies
University of Dundee
Perth Rd
Dundee
DD1 4HN

Carlo Morelli is a lecturer in business and economic history. He graduated at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London in 1992 and won an Economic and Social Research Council studentship to carry out a PhD at the London School of Economics which was awarded in 1997. Before coming to Dundee Carlo was a lecturer in Economic History at Warwick University.

Research

General research interests include institutional, business and economic history after 1945 along with poverty and inequality. Areas of expertise include the economics of transaction costs and the economic history of cartels, retailing and food policy, child poverty and inequality.

Teaching

• Marketing
• Business Strategy
• British Business and Economy since 1945

Recent publications

• 2007, Devolution and Inequality: A Failure to Create a Community of Equals?, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol 32, Issue 4, 523-538.
  
  
• 2007 ‘Further reflections on the Golden Age in British multiple retailing 1976-1994: capital investment, market share and retail margins’, Environment & Planning A. volume 38.
  
  
• 2007, ‘Regional Diversity and Child Poverty: The Case of Child Benefit in the United Kingdom and the Need for Joined Up Thinking‘, with P. Seaman, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vo.2, 07, ISSN 1833-1882.
  
  
• 2007, ‘Women and work after the 5 Second World War: A Case Study of the Jute Industry, Circa 1945–195, with J. Tomlinson, Twentieth Century British History, vol.18.
  
  
• 2007, ‘Class, Collusion and Competition: Divergent patterns of business Development and rise of large scale retailing in the US and Britain 1880-1950s’, International Journal of Management Concepts and Philosophy Vol. 2, No. 4, 317-36.
  
  
• 2006, Still Hungry for Success? Targeting the poor and the case of Free School Meals, Dundee Discussion papers in Economics, No.189,
  
  
• 2006 ‘Regional Diversity and Child Poverty: The case of Child Benefit and the need for joined up thinking’ with P. Seaman, Proceedings Scottish Trade Union Research Network Conference, Glasgow, 131-147.
  
  
• 2006 ‘The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1945-54: Government Business relationships in conflict?, Proceedings of the National Oil Companies Conference, Paris.
  
  
• 2005 Child Poverty, Household Income and the Distributional Effects of Universal Benefits with P. Seaman, Environment & Planning C . volume 23(4) August, pages 583 – 598
  
  
• 2005 The Development of Chain Retailing in Comparative Perspective: collusion and competition in the US and UK, Proceedings of the European Business History Association Conference,, Barcelona,
  
  
• 2005 The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1945-54: Government Business relationships in conflict?, Proceedings of the National Oil Companies Conference, Paris
  
  
• 2004 Explaining the Growth British Multiple Retailing during the Golden Age 1976-1994, Environment & Planning A. volume 36(4) April, pages 667 - 684
  
  
• 2003 Labour and the Trade Unions- Electing to fight with Joe Hartney, Mike Gonzalez, Michael Lavalette, Socialist Review 275/11
  
  
• 2003 The Determinants of Growth in Large- Scale Retailing in the Golden Age Dundee Discussion Papers in conomics no. 132
  
  
• 2002 School Meals, public health and the Scottish Economy, with Mehran Zabihollah (Child Poverty Action Group)
  
  
• 2001 Food Crisis- Enough to Make you Sick?, Socialist Review, 251/22
  
  
• 2000 Socialists and Economic Growth: The myth of employers and union connivance in explaining relative economic decline in D. Renton & K. Flett (eds.) 'The political economy of British relative economic decline'
  
  
• 1999 Information Costs and Information Asymmetry in British Food Retailing, Service Industries Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3
  
  
• 1998 Constructing a Balance between Price and Non-Price Competition In British Multiple Food Retailing 1954-64, Business History, Vol. 40, No. 2
  
  
• 1998 Britain's Most Dynamic Sector? Competitive Advantage in Multiple Food Retailing, Business and Economic History, vol. 26 no. 2
  
  
• 1997 Editor: Cartels and Market Management in the Post-War World, Business History Occasional Paper, No. 1, London School of Economics
  
  
• 1997 British Success and Failure in Post-War Cartels: The Oil and Electrical Engineering Industries 1945-60, Business History Unit Occasional Paper, No. 1, London School of Economics