Raymond G. (Ray) Stokes is a comparative historian of the political economy of business, technology, and the environment since the mid-20th century. The Director of the Centre for Business History in Scotland at the University of Glasgow, he has authored or co-authored nine books to date, most recently Building on Air (2016), an international history of the industrial gases industry since the late 19th century, and The Thalidomide Catastrophe (2018).
His latest book, Ruins to Riches: The Economic Resurgence of Germany and Japan after 1945 was published in May 2024 by Cambridge University Press.
