Curriculum Vitae
Naomi R. Lamoreaux
Contact Information
Department
of Economics Address
for courier:
Economic
Growth Center 27
Hillhouse Avenue
Yale University New
Haven, CT 06511
Box 208269 Phone: (203) 432-3625
New Haven, CT 06520-8269 Fax: (203) 432-3635
Email: naomi.lamoreaux@yale.edu
Education
Undergraduate: University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1968-1970; SUNY-Binghamton,
1970-1972, BA in History 1972
Graduate: The Johns Hopkins University, 1974-1979, MA
in History 1976, Ph.D. in History 1979
Dissertation: “Industrial Organization and Market
Behavior: The Great Merger Movement in
American Industry”
Area of
Specialization: U.S. Economic
and Business History
Professional Positions
Professor
of Economics and History, Yale
University, 2010-
Research
Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, 1989-
Professor
of Law, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007-2011
Professor
of Economics and History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1996-2011
Visiting
Professor, Anderson
School of Management, 2006-2007
Professor
of History, Brown University, 1993-98
Co-editor,
Journal of Economic History, 1992-96
Associate
Professor of History, Brown University, 1987-93
Short-term
Visiting Scholar, School of Business Administration, Meiji
University, Tokyo, Japan,
April 21, 1985 to May 20, 1985
Assistant
Professor of History, Brown University, 1979-87
Visiting
Instructor, The Johns
Hopkins University,
Summer, 1979, 1980
Honors
and Awards
INET
Research Grant, joint with Margaret Levenstein, 2011-12
Clio
“Can” for Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics, 2009-10
President,
Economic History Association, 2009-10 (President-Elect, 2008-09)
Tobin
Project Grant, joint with Bruce Carruthers, 2008
NSF
Grant, joint with Timothy Guinnane and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, 2007-12
Elected
member of American
Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 2005
NSF
ACES Distinguished Lectureship, Case
Western Reserve University,
September 16-26, 2004
PEAES
Prize for best article published in Early American Economic History, 2003
SSRC
Grant, joint with Kenneth L. Sokoloff,
2001-04
Seed
Grant, UCLA Academic Senate, joint with Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, 2001-02
Collins
Faculty Fellowship, joint with Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, 2001-02
President,
Business History Conference, 2000-2001 (President-Elect, 1999-2000)
CAPP
Fellowship, joint with Kenneth L. Sokoloff, 2000-01
Collins
Faculty Fellowship, joint with Kenneth L. Sokoloff, 1999-02
UCLA
History Department Summer Grant, joint with Kenneth L. Sokoloff, 1999
Alice
Hanson Jones Prize, awarded by the Economic History Association for the best
book on North American Economic History published in 1993-95
American
Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1996-97
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers, 1996-97
NSF
Grant, joint with Kenneth L. Sokoloff, 1995-98
NSF
Grant, joint with Kenneth L. Sokoloff, 1993-95
Harold
Williamson Prize, awarded by the Business History Conference biennially to an
outstanding scholar in mid-career, 1990
John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, February, 1989 to January,
1990
American
Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1988-89
Charles
Warren Center Fellowship, 1988-89 (accepted affiliation only)
Howard
Foundation Fellowship, 1988-89 (declined)
National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, June to July, 1988
Cole
Prize, awarded by the Economic History Association for the best article in the Journal of Economic History, 1986-87
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1982-83
American
Council of Learned Societies, Fellowship for Study in Modern Society and
Values, 1982-83 (declined)
Professional Organizations
American
Academy
of Arts and Sciences
American
Economic Association
American
Historical Association
Business
History Conference
The
Cliometric Society
Economic
History Association
Economic
History Society
European
Historical Economics Society
Organization
of American Historians
Society
for Historians of the Early Republic
Western Reserve
Historical Society
Books
Edited Books
Dora L.
Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, eds., Understanding
Long-Run Economic Growth: Essays in
Honor of Kenneth L. Sokoloff (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2011).
Sally
H. Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven Usselman, eds., The Challenge of
Remaining Innovative: Lessons from Twentieth Century American Business
(Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2009).
Naomi
R. Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, eds., Financing
Innovation in the United States, 1870 to the Present (Cambridge:
MIT Press, 2007).
Naomi
R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin, eds., Learning
By Doing in Firms, Markets, and Countries (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Articles in Refereed Journals
Naomi
R. Lamoreaux, “The
Mystery of Property Rights:
A U.S. Perspective,” Journal
of Economic History 71 (June 2011), 275-306 (presidential address to the
Economic History Association).
Naomi
R. Lamoreaux, “Scylla or Charybdis? Some Historical Reflections on the Two Basic
Problems of Corporate Governance
,” Business
History Review 83 (Spring 2009): 9-34.
Timothy W. Guinnane, Ron Harris,
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Pouvoir et
propriété dans l’entreprise: pour une histoire internationale des sociétiés á
responsabilité limitée,” Annales: Histoires, Sciences Sociales 63
(janvier-février 2008): 73-110. (An
English version available as “Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial
Firm: An International History of
Private Limited Companies,” Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion
Paper #959 [December
2007], http://www.econ.yale.edu/growth_pdf/cdp959.pdf.)
Timothy W. Guinnane, Ron Harris,
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Putting the Corporation in its Place,” Enterprise and Society 8 (Sept. 2007): 687-729.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Entity Shielding and the Development of Business Forms: A Comparative Perspective,” Harvard Law Review Forum 119 (March 2006):
238-245, http://www.harvardlawreview.org/forum/issues/119/march06/lamoreaux_rosenthal.pdf.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, and Kenneth L.
Sokoloff, “Mobilizing Venture Capital During
the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland,
Ohio, 1870-1920,” Capitalism and Society 1 (2006), issue
3, article 5, http://www.bepress.com/cas/vol1/iss3/art5/.
(This article is a
revised and expanded version of “Financing Invention during the Second
Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio,
1870-1920,” in Financing Innovation in
the United States, ed. Lamoreaux and Sokoloff.)
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Rethinking Microhistory:
A Comment,” Journal
of the Early Republic 26 (Winter 2006): 555-61.
Robert Cull,
Lance E. Davis, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent
Rosenthal, “Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Size Enterprises,”
Journal of Banking and Finance 30
(Nov. 2006): 3017-42.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Comment: Extending
the Demand-Side Turn Productively,” Enterprise and Society 7 (Sept. 2006): 462-68.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Did Insecure Property Rights Slow Economic Development? Some Lessons from U.S. History,”
Journal of
Policy History 18:1 (2006): 146-64 (special issue of the
journal, also published as Ruling
Passions: Political Economy in Nineteenth-Century
America, ed. Richard R. John [University
Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006]).
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,
“Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility: A Comparison of Business’s Organizational
Choices in France and the United States during the Era of Industrialization,”
American Law and Economics Review 7
(Spring 2005): 28-61.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin,
“Against Whig History,” Enterprise and Society 5 (Sept. 2004): 376-87.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Rethinking the Transition to Capitalism in the Early
American Northeast,” Journal
of American History 90 (Sept. 2003): 437-61.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff, and Peter Temin,
“Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Towards a New Synthesis of American Business
History,” American
Historical Review 108 (April 2003): 404-33.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Reframing the Past: Thoughts about Business Leadership and
Decision Making Under Uncertainty,” Enterprise and Society 2 (Dec. 2001): 632-59
(presidential address to the Business History Conference).
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Market Trade in Patents and the Rise of a Class of
Specialized Inventors in the Nineteenth-Century United States,”
American Economic Review,
Papers and Proceedings, 91 (May 2001), pp. 39-44 (reprinted in John Cantwell,
ed., The Economics of Patents [Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006], Vol. 1).
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “The Geography of Invention in the American Glass Industry,
1870-1925,” Journal of Economic History 60 (Sept. 2000):
700-29.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Taking Counterfactual History Seriously,” California History, forthcoming.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal, “The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United
States in the Early Twentieth Century,” in Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Essays in Honor of Kenneth L. Sokoloff,
ed. Dora L. Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2011).
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865-1920,”
in The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to
Modern Times, eds. David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol
(Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2010), pp. 367-400.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff,
“The Rise and Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story?” in The Challenge of Remaining Innovative: Lessons from
Twentieth Century American Business, eds. Sally H.
Clarke, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Steven Usselman (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2009),
pp. 43-78.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G.
Raff, and Peter Temin, “Business History and Economic Theory,” in Oxford Handbook of Business History, eds. Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan
Zeitlin (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2008),
pp. 37-66.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, Margaret Levenstein, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Do Innovative Regions Inevitably Decline? Lessons from Cleveland’s
Experience in the 1920s,” Business and Economic History On-Line 5 (2007), http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHonline/2007/lls.pdf.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff,
“The Market for Technology and the Organization of Invention in U.S. History,”
in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and the Growth Mechanism of
the Free-Enterprise Economies, eds. Eytan Sheshinski,
Robert J. Strom, and William J. Baumol (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), pp.
213-43.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Corporate Governance and
the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great
Depression,” in Corruption and Reform:
Lessons from America’s Economic History, eds.
Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
2006), pp. 125-52.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Business Organization,” essay and tables in Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present,
eds. Susan B. Carter, et al.
(Millennial edn.; New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2006), Vol. 3, pp. 477-582.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Partnerships,
Corporations, and the Limits on Contractual Freedom in U.S. History:
An Essay in Economics, Law, and Culture,” in Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, and Culture,
eds. Kenneth Lipartito and David B. Sicilia (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004),
pp. 29-65.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Understanding the Regional Dimensions of
Technological Change: Inventive Activity
in the United States during
the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” Economic History Yearbook (Moscow,
2003), pp. 539-65.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Management,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
(New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003), Vol. 3, pp.
427-31.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “The Firm After 1800,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
(New York:
Oxford University Press, 2003), Vol. 2, pp.
318-24.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff,
“Intermediaries in the U.S. Market for Technology, 1870-1920,” in Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development,
eds. Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp.
209-46.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, “Banks, Insider Lending, and Economic Development: The New England Case,” in Economic and Business History: International Experience and Modern Problems,
ed. Michael Bibikov (Moscow: Russian Academy
of Sciences, 2002), pp. 30-54.
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “The Geography of the Market for Technology
in the Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth Century United States,” Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and
Economic Growth, 11 (Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1999), pp. 67-121.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Regional
Financial Institutions,” Proceedings of
the Twelfth International Economic History Congress (1998), Vol. B9, pp.
28-36.
Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis, “The Economics of Civil
Society” (2011).
Ron Harris
and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Contractual Flexibility within the Common Law: Organizing Private Companies in Britain and
the United States” (2010).
Bruce G.
Carruthers and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Regulatory Races: The
Effects of Jurisdictional Competition on Regulatory Standards”
(2009).
Ruth H. Bloch
and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “The Private Rights of Organizations: The Tangled Roots of the Family, the
Corporation, and the Right to Privacy” (2008).
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Margaret Levenstein, “The Decline of an Innovative Region: Cleveland in the Twentieth Century”
(2008).
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,
“Contractual Tradeoffs and SME’s Choice of Organizational
Form: A View
from U.S. and French History,” NBER Working Paper W12455
(2006).
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the
United States, 1840-1920,” NBER Working Paper W7107 (1999).
Ruth H. Bloch
and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Private Sector/Private Sphere: The Organizational Roots of the Right to
Privacy in America,
from Colonial Times to the Twentieth Century” (book project).
Timothy
Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi R.
Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal,
“The Economic Consequences of Organizational Law: Corporations, Partnerships,
and Intermediate Forms in France,
Germany, the U.K., and the U.S., 1800-2000” (research project)
Naomi R.
Lamoreaux and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, “Beyond Monopoly: Patents, Inventors, and the Market for
Technology in the United
States during the Second Industrial
Revolution” (book project).
OAH
Distinguished Lectureship Program, 2004-
Prize
Committee, Business History Conference, 2011-14
EHA Search
Committee for an Executive Director, 2010-11
Nominations
Committee for the Economic History Association, 2005
Co-organizer,
SSRC Conference on the Finance of Invention, Irvine, March 2003
Graduate
Education Committee of the Economic History Association, 2001
Chair,
Nominating Committee, Business History Conference, 2001
Nominations
Committee for the Economic History Association, 1987
Nominations
Committee for the Economic History Association, 1984
Committee on
Research in Economic History, Economic History Association, 1983-86 (Chair,
1986)