Bas van Bavel

In 2014 he was appointed as professor Transitions of Economy and Society and started directing a research team for the project 'Coordinating for life.

[5][6][7] The majority of van Bavel's research has focused on pre-industrial Northwestern Europe especially on the divergent development of societies and the influence of institutions on this process.

[8] Van Bavel has argued that gross domestic product is a subjective manner of representing economic growth and strength, and is not an objective analysis.

[8] In an article published in Past & Present in 2009, van Bavel and Oscar Gelderblom disagreed with British historian Simon Schama on the origins of historic Dutch cleanliness.

[10] In 2014 van Bavel contributed to a report on economic disparity published by the Dutch Scientific Council for Government Policy.

[3] In 2006 van Bavel won a VICI grant from the NWO for the research project 'Economic Growth and Stagnation in the Pre-Industrial Era: Iraq, Italy and the Low Countries, 600-1700'.

[17] The awarding institution, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, praised Van Bavel for: "providing an entirely new vision on the role of the market economy in our society.