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Selected Work:

'Profitability of small and medium sized enterprises in Marshall's time: sector and spatial heterogeneity in the nineteenth century', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 46(1), 219–249 (with R. J. Bennett, H. Smith, C. van Lieshout) (2021)

'Machine learning classification of entrepreneurs in British historical census data', Information Processing & Management, vol. 57(3), 102210 (with R. J. Bennett, H. Smith and C. van Lieshout) (2020)

'A tale of two tails: Do Power Law and Lognormal models fit firm-size distributions in the mid-Victorian era?' Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 523, 858–875 (with R.J. Bennett, C. van Lieshout and H. Smith) (2019)

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