Brian D. Varian is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University. He was previously a Lecturer at Swansea and has held visiting positions at Melbourne and Cambridge (Corpus Christi). He has a PhD in Economic History from the LSE. He is an Associate Editor of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review. His research, which concerns the trade of Britain and its Dominions from c.1860-1939, has been published in such journals as the Canadian Journal of Economics and Economic History Review.
