Leadership roles

• Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies Finance and Inequality, University of Bonn.
• Director, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
• Director, Long Run Institute
• Director, Centre for Economics, Policy and History
• Lead of Northern Ireland Productivity Forum

Editorial positions

• Lead Editor, Economics Observatory
• Editorial board, Economic History Review
• Editorial board, National Institute Economic Review

External links

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Economic and financial history, law and finance, banking

John Turner has been a Professor of Finance and Financial History at Queen’s University Belfast since 2005.  His research is focussed on the long-run evolution and development of banking, banking crises, bubbles, and financial markets.

He is the author of Banking in Crisis, published by Cambridge University Press. Banking in Crisis won the 2015 Wadsworth Prize.

His 2020 book, Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, was on a Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year and has been covered in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Guardian, Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph and City AM. 

His latest book, The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry, has been reviewed in The Sunday Times, The Observer and the Financial Times. 

John has held several distinguished visiting positions - he was the Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England in 2003 and the Alfred D. Chandler Fellow at the Harvard Business School in 2010. He has also been a visiting porfessor at the London School of Economics, University of Melbourne and Yale University.

He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2018.

Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles

Boom and Bust is a global history of financial bubbles, covering major episodes from five different continents over the past 300 years. It uses this previously unwritten history to explain what causes bubbles, what their consequences are, and what the lessons are for investors and policymakers today.

Boom and Bust has been translated into Korean, Portuguese, and Japanese.

The book is available from Cambridge University Press, Amazon (US), Amazon (UK), Waterstones, Barnes and Noble, and many other outlets.