February 2001

 

L E E   J.   A L S T O N

 

 

225H David Kinley Hall                                                                 

Department of Economics                                                              

University of Illinois                                                                       

1407 West Gregory Drive

Urbana, IL  61801

217-333-7664

217-333-2682

fax 217-333-1398

email l-alston@uiuc.edu

 

 

PERSONAL:

       Born March 29, 1951

       Port Washington, WI

       Married (Mary); two children (Greg and Eric)

 

 

EDUCATION:

       Ph.D. -- University of Washington, 1978

       M.A.  -- University of Washington, 1975

       B.A.  -- Indiana University, 1973, with distinction

 

 

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS:
       Professor of Economics, University of Illinois (1990-  )

       Professor Political Science, University of Illinois (1999- )

       Visiting Professor, Stockholm School of Economics (May 1999)

       Professor, U.S. Business School in Prague (May 1994-  )

       Research Associate. National Bureau of Economic Research (1995-)

       Director, Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Illinois (1996-1999)

       Professor, Institute for Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois (1998-)

       Core Faculty, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, University of Illinois (1992-)

       Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Illinois (1995-)

       Professor, Campus Honors Faculty, University of Illinois(1989-  )

       Visiting Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder (1994-1995)

       Associate Professor, University of Illinois (1988-1990)

       Associate Professor, Williams College (1985-1989)

       Visiting Fellow, Australian National University, Research

       School of Social Sciences (July 1986-July 1987)

       Visiting Associate Professor, University of California-Davis (1985-86)

       Director of Research, Economics Department, Williams College (1983-1984).

       Visiting Assistant Professor/Research Scholar, Unversity of Washington (1982-1983)

       Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College (1978-1985)

       Economics Consultant, Senior Scholastic Magazine (1980-1982)

       Instructor in Economics, University of Washington (1974-1978)

       Research Assistant in Natural Resource Economics, University of  Washington (1975)
       Junior Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers (1973)

 




 

 

 

AWARDS & HONORS:

               Phi Eta Sigma, 1970

               Phi Beta Kappa, 1972

               Williams College Research Grant (1978-1988)

               Adsit Fellow (1981-82)

               Visiting Scholar, Institute of Governmental Affairs,  University of California, Davis (9/85-7/86)

               Fellow, Agricultural History Center, University of California, Davia  (9/85-7/86)

               Fellowship, Australian National University (7/86-7/87)

               National Science Foundation Grant (6/88-1/90) (#8713230)
               Visiting Scholar, Political Research Center, Bozeman, Montana  (August 1989)
               National Science Foundation Grant (10/92-1/94)

Kinkead Research Scholar (University of Illinois) 1992-1993
       World Bank Research Grant (1/92-6/93)
       National Science Foundation Grant (7/15/95-6/30/96)

               National Science Foundation Grant (7/1/96-7/30/98)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

                   Agricultural History Association
                   American Economics Association
                   Cliometrics Society             
                   Economic History Association

International Society for the New Institutional Economics

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (Current):
           

            Trustee, Economic History Association (2000- )

            Review Panel for Economics for the National Science Foundation (2000-2001)
      
BOOKS:      
(Co-authored with Joseph P. Ferrie)  Paternalism and the American Welfare State:  Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the U.S. South, 1865-1965.  (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

(Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier  (University of Michigan Press, 1999).

(Co-edited with Thrainn Eggertsson and Douglass North)  Empirical Studies in Institutional Change.  (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996). Translated into Chinese

(Co-edited with David Pope)  Australia's Greatest Asset:  Human Resources in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.  Annandale, NSW:  Federation Press, 1989.

Costs of Contracting and the Decline of Tenancy in the South, 1930-1960, New York:  Garland Publishing 1985.

ARTICLES:

            (Co-authored with Andres Gallo) “Evolution and Revolution in the Argentine Banking System under Convertibility: The Political Economy of Banking Reform” Journal of Policy Reform (forthcoming).

            (Co-authored with Kyle Kauffman) “Were Postbellum Agricultural Labor Markets Competitive?”  Explorations in Economic History  38, Number 1 (January 2001): 181-194..

            ( Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) “Property Rights to Land and Land Reform: Legal Inconsistencies and the Sources of Violent Conflict in the Brazilian Amazon,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2000).

            (Co-authored with Kyle Kauffman) “The Impact of Paternalism on Racial Land Rentals Differences in the U.S.A.,” in Institutions, Contracts and Organizations:Perspectives From New Institutional Economics, edited by Claude Menard (Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2000).

            “History Matters,” in Privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe and Russia, edited by Werner Baer and Joseph Love (Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2000).     

            (Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) “A Model of Rural Conflict: Violence and Land Reform Policy in Brazil,” Environment and Development Economics 4, (1999): 135-160.

            "Technological Change, Transaction Costs, and the Industrial Organization of Cotton Production in the U.S. South: 1950-1970," in Authority and Control in Modern Industry: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives,   edited by  Paul L. Robertson (Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 1999): 140-154.

            (Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) “Un Analisis Economico de la Violencia y el Conflicto en Brasil,” in Corrupcion, Crimen y Justicia: Una Perspectiva Economica edited by Mauricio Cardenas y Roberto Steiner (Bogota: Fedesarrollo, Asociacion Latinoamericana y del Caribede Economia, 1998).

            (Co-authored with Gary D. Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) “Property Rights and Land Conflict: A Comparison of Settlement of the U.S. Western and Brazilian Amazon Frontiers,” in Latin America and the World Economy Since 1800 edited by John H. Coatsworth and Alan M. Taylor (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1998): 55-84.

            (Co-authored with Kyle Kauffman) “Up, Down and Off the Agricultural Ladder: New Evidence and Implications of Agricultural Mobility for Blacks in the Postbellum South,” Agricultural History 72, (1998): 263-279.

            Comments on “Institutions, the State and Development Outcomes” by Ajay Chibber, (Washington D.C.: The World Bank, forthcoming ).

            (Co-authored with Kyle Kauffman) “Agricultural Chutes and Ladders: New Estimates of Sharecroppers and Welfare Implication for the Southern Agricultural Labor Market,  1900-1960," Journal of Economic History (June 1997): 464-475.    

            (Co-authored with Gary Libecap and Robert Schneider) "The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Census Data and Survey Results for Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier"  Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (1996): 25-61.

            (Co-authored with Gary  Libecap and Robert Schneider) "Violence, and the Assignment of Property Rights on Two Brazilian Frontiers" in The Political Economy of Conflict and Appropriation edited by Michelle R. Garfinkel and Stergios Skaperdas (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996): 157-177.

            (Co-authored with Gary Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) "Violence and the Development of Property Rights to Land in the Brazilian Amazon," in Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics, edited by John Drobak and John Nye (New York: Academic Press, 1997): 145-163.

            (Co-authored with Gary  Libecap and Robert Schneider)  "Property Rights and the Preconditions for Markets: The Case of the Amazon Frontier" Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol., 151, No.1, (March 1995): 89-107.

            (Co-authored with Gary  Libecap and Robert Schneider) "The Demand and Supply of Property Rights on the Frontier: The Cases of North America and Brazil"  in The Privatization Process: A Worldwide Perspective  edited by Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill (Lanham, MD: Rowan and Littlefield, 1995): .

            (Co-authored with Bernardo Mueller, Gary  Libecap and Robert Schneider) "Land Property Rights and Privatization in Brazil," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol 34  Special Issue: Latin America: Privatization, Property Rights, and Deregulation 2, (Summer 1994): 261-280.

            (Co-authored with David Fairris) "Wages and the Intensity of Labor Effort:  Efficiency Wages versus Compensating Payments," Southern Economic Journal (July 1994): 149-160.

            (Co-authored with Joseph Ferrie) "Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts in the U.S. South:  Implications for the Growth of the Welfare State," American Economic Review (September 1993):  852-876.

            (Co-authored with Wayne Grove and David Wheelock) "Why Do Banks Fail:  Evidence from the 1920s," Explorations in Economic History, (September 1994): 409-431.

            "Institutions and Markets in History:  Lessons for Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States," in The Economic Transformation of Central Europe:  Lessons and Legacies from the Past, edited by David Good (London:  Rutledge Press, 1994): 43-59.

            (Co-authored with Joseph Ferrie) "The Bracero Program and Farm Labor Legislation in World War II," in The Sinews of War, edited by Geoffrey T. Mills and Hugh Rockoff (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992).

            (Co-authored with Paul L. Robertson) "Technological Choice and the Organization of Work in Capitalist Firms," Economic History Review, XLV (May 1992):  330-349.

            "American Farming:  If It's Broke, Why Can't We Fix It?" in Second Thoughts:  Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History, edited by Donald McCloskey (1992):  50-56.

            (Co-authored with T.J. Hatton) "The Wage Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing Laborers, 1925-1941," Journal of Economic History, 51 (March 1991):  83-100.

            (Co-authored with Pablo Spiller) "A Congressional Theory of Indian Property Rights:  The Cherokee Outlet," in Property Rights and Indian Economics, edited by Terry L. Anderson (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield: 1992): 85-108.

            "Issues in Postbellum Southern Agriculture," in Agriculture and National Development:  Views on the Nineteenth Century, edited by Louis Ferleger (Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1990): 207-228.

            (Co-authored with William Gillespie) "Resource Coordination and Transaction Costs:  A Framework for Analyzing the Firm/Market Boundary," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (April 1989): 1-22.

            (Co-authored with Joseph P. Ferrie) "Social Control and Labor Relations in the American South Before the Mechanization of the Cotton Harvest in the 1950s," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, (March 1989): 133-157.

            (Co-authored with Bruce J. Chapman) "Arbitration and NSW Wage Structures in 1905 and 1981," in Australia's Greatest Asset:  Human Resources in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by Lee J. Alston and David Pope, (Sydney:  Federation Press, 1988): 176-200.

            (Co-authored with Randal Rucker) "Farm Failures and Government Intervention:  A Case Study of the 1930s," American Economic Review, 77 (September 1987): 724-730.

            "The Wright Interpretation of Southern U.S. Economic Development," A Review Essay of Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Since the Civil War by Gavin Wright.  Agricultural History, 61 (Fall 1987): 1761-1767.

            (Co-authored with Joseph Ferrie) "Resisting the Welfare State: Southern Opposition to the Farm Security Administration" in The Emergence of the Modern Political Economy, edited by Robert Higgs (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1986):  83-120.

            "Race Etiquette in the South:  The Role of Tenancy," Research in Economic History, 10 (January 1986): 199-211.

            (Co-authored with Joseph Ferrie) "Labor Costs, Paternalism, and Loyalty in Southern Agriculture:  A Constraint on the Growth of the Welfare State," Journal of Economic History, XLV (March 1985): 95-117.

            (Co-authored with Samar K. Datta and Jeffrey B. Nugent) "Tenancy Choice in a Competitive Framework with Transactions Costs," Journal of Political Economy, 92 (December 1984):  1121-1133.

            (Co-authored with Morton Schapiro) "Inheritance Laws Across Colonies:  Causes and Consequences," Journal of Economic History, XLIV (June 1984): 277-287.

            "Farm Foreclosure Moratorium Legislation:  A Lesson from the Past," American Economic Review, 74 (June 1984): 445-457.

            "Farm Foreclosures in the United States During the Interwar Period," Journal of Economic History, XLIII (December 1983): 885-903.

            (Co-authored with Robert Higgs) "Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture Since the Civil War: Facts, Hypotheses and Tests," Journal of Economic History, XLII (June 1982): 327-353.

            "Tenure Choice in Southern Agriculture, 1930-1960," Explorations in Economic History, 18 (July 1981): 211-232.

            "Costs of Contracting and the Decline of Tenancy in the South, 1930-1960," Journal of Economic History, XXXIX (March 1979): 324-326.

RESEARCH PAPERS:

           

               (Co-authored with Joseph Ferrie) "Farm Tenancy in the U.S., 1890-1938: New Evidence from an Old Study for Assessing the 'Agricultural Ladder”  Working Paper (August 2000). Paper presented at the  4th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics in Tubingen Germany in September 2000 

 

            (Co-authored with Ruth Dupre and Tomas Nonnenmacher) “Social Reformers and Regulation: The Prohibition of Cigarettes in the U.S. and Canada Working Paper (August 2000).

       (Co-authored with Randal Rucker and Marc Weidenmeir) "Did U.S. Agricultural Policy Lock Farmers into Wheat? The Capitalization of Farm Policies into Land Prices in the U.S and Canada" Working Paper (September 2000). Paper given at the meetings of the Canadian Network for Economic History, October 2000.

           

            Co-authored with Jeffrey T. LaFrance and Randal Rucker ) "An Economic Analysis of the Determinants of Farm Failure Rates, 1911-1980," Working Paper (February 1990).

            (Co-authored with Joseph Ferrie) "A Theory of In-Kind Compensation With an Application to Agriculture," Williams College, Department of Economics, Working Paper (July 1989).

            (Co-authored with Robert Higgs) "An Economist's Perspective on Southern Paternalism," Williams College, Department of Economics, Working Paper (June 1983).

            (Co-authored with Robert Higgs) "Firm versus Market:  A Comment on Williamson's Model of the Resource Coordination Problem," University of Washington, Department of Economics, Working Paper, (February 1982).

BOOK REVIEWS:

            Policies, Institutions and the Dark Side of Economics. By Vito Tanzi. The Independent Review (forthcoming 2001).

            MODERN MANORS: WELFARE CAPITALISM SINCE THE NEW DEAL. By Sanford M. Jacoby. Journal of Economic Literature (forthcoming 2000).    

            Politics and Property Rights: the Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South. by Shawn Kantor. Journal of Economic History (March 1999).

            Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and applications.  Seventh World Congress. Volume II. Edited by David M. Kreps and Kenneth F. Wallis. Journal of Economic History (December, 1998).

            On the Search for Well-Being by Henry J. Bruton. Journal of Economic History (September  1998).

            Institutions in Economics: The Old and the New Institutionalism by Malcolm Rutherford. Journal of the History of Economic Thought (forthcoming, 1996).

            The Regulated Economy edited by Gary D. Libecap and Claudia Goldin. Journal of Economic Literature (June 1995).

            The Economics of Rural Organization: Theory, Practice and Policy edited by Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz. Journal of Development Economics (forthcoming).

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance by Douglass C. North.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy. 1924-1933," by David C. Wheelock.  Business History Review .

From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt:  Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1930-1980 by Bruce J. Schulman.  Journal of Economic History (June 1992):  497-499.

Contracting for Property Rights by Gary D. Libecap.  Journal of Economic History (June 1991): 517-518.

The Material Basis of the Postbellum Plantation:  Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Piedmont by Charles E. Orser, Jr.  Journal of Economic History (March 1990): 219-220.

The Economic Institutions of Capitalism by Oliver E. Williamson.  Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 8 (1987):  316-318.

Cotton Fields No More:  Southern Agriculture 1865-1980 by Gilbert C. File.  Journal of Economic History, XLV, No. 4 (December 1985):  1003-1005.

The Reshaping of Plantation Society:  The Natchez District, 1860-1900 by Crandall A. Shifflett.  Civil War History, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June 1984): 174-176.

Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South:  Louisa County, Virginia, 1860-1900 by Crandall A. Shifflett.  Civil War History, Vol. 30, No. 2 (June 1983): 531-532.

Good and Faithful Labor:  From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860-1890 by Ronald L. F. Davis.  Journal of Economic History, XLIII, No. 2 (June 1983):  531-532.

The Harder We Run:  Black Workers Since The Civil War by William H. Harris. Agricultural History, Vol. 57, No. 1 (January 1983):  113-114.

A Deplorable Scarcity by Fred Bateman and Thomas Weiss.  Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 48, No. 3 (January 1982):  814-815.

Locking Up the Range:  Federal Land Controls and Grazing by Gary D. Libecap.  The Southwestern Review of Management and Economics, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Spring 1982): 228-230.

Research in Economic History, Vol. 3, 1979.  Edited by Paul Uselding.  Business History Review LIII, No. 4 (Winter 1979): 544-546.

Social Origins of the New South:  Alabama, 1860-1885 by Jonathan M. Wiener.  Agricultural History, Vol. 53, No. 4 (October 1979): 829-830)



OTHER PUBLICATIONS:


            "Money on the Move:  Ups and Downs of International Exchange," Senior Scholastic, 114, No. 5 (October 30, 1981): 4-6.

            "But What Do Economists Do?" Senior Scholastic, 114, No. 13 (March 5, 1982):  11-13.

            "What is the Farm Problem?"  Contemporary Economic Issues published by the Pacific Academy for Advanced Studies (Summer 1985).

            "Excise-Tax Inequities," The Boston Globe (May 26, 1985).

SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS:

    The Cliometrics Conference,  Chicago, Illinois.  May 1978.
    Economic History Association Annual Meeting.  Toronto, Canada. September 1978.
    Williams College Department of Economics Seminar.  October 1978.
    Williams Colloquium.  Williamstown, Massachusetts.  February 1979.
    Williams College Department of Economics Seminar.  September 1980.
    Harvard University.  Workshop in Economic History.  October 1980.
    Yale University, Workshop in Economic History.  October 1980.
    University of Miami.  February 1981.
    Williams College Department of Economics Seminar.  March 1981.
    Sewanee Economics Symposium at the University of the South.  April   1981.
    Columbia University Seminar.  May 1981.
    Western Economic Association Conference.  July 1981; Paper Delivered,  Discussant and Session     Chairperson.
    Reason Foundation, Santa Barbara, California.  July 1981.
    University of Washington.  Workshop in Economic History.  June 1982.
    Economic History Association Annual Meeting.  Baltimore, Maryland. September 1982.
    Social Science History Meetings.  Bloomington, Indiana.  November 1982.
    Harvard University. Workshop in Economic History.  December 1982.
    Williams College Department of Economics Seminar.  December 1982.
    Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues.  April 1983.
    The Cliometrics Conference.  University of Iowa.  May 1983.
    Economic History Association Annual Meeting.  Washington, D.C.  September 1983.
    Lafayette College Conference on Political Economy.  April 1984.
    Williams College Department of Economics.  May 1984.
    Political Economy Research Center, Conference on Institutional Structure and Entrepreneurship.July 1984.
    Williams College Department of Economics.  August 1984.
    University of Arizona Department of Agricultural Economics.  November 1984.
    Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting.  Atlanta, Georgia.  November 1984.
    Williams College Department of Economics.  April 1985.
    North Carolina State University Department of Economics and Business.  April 1985.
    Greater Atlanta Economic and Business History Association.  Athens,Georgia.  May 1985.
    Northeastern Universities Development Conference.  Williamstown, Massachusetts.  May 1985.
    Williams College Department of Economics.  July 1985.
    University of California, Berkeley, Economic History Workshop. October 1985.
    University of California, Davis.  Agricultural and Economic History Workshop.  October 1985.
    Minnesota Economics Association.  Annual Meeting.  Minneapolis, Minnesota.  October, 1985.
    Stanford University.  Economic History Workshop.  November 1985.
    University of California, Davis.  Department of Economics.  November 1985.
    All-University California Conference in Economic History.  Asilomar, California.  November 1985.
    University of Southern California.  Economic Development Workshop. December 1985.
    Washington University.  Political Economy Workshop.  February 1986.
    Federal Reserve Bank.  Helena, Montana.  Board of Directors Meeting.  March 1986.
    Montana State University.  Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics Seminar.  May 1986.
    University of California-Stanford.  Economic History Seminar.   April 1986.
    All-University California Conference in Economic History, Laguna Beach, California.  May 1986.
    Cliometrics Conference.  Miami University.  Oxford, Ohio.  May 1986.
    Conference on the State, Fairfax, Virginia.  July 1986.
    University of Texas-Arlington.  Arlington, Texas.  July 1986.
    Australian and New Zealand Economic History Meeting.  Adelaide, South Australia.  August 1986.
    University of Melbourne/Monash University.  Department of Economic History.  October 1986.
    La Trobe University.  Department of Economics.  October 1986.
    The Australian National University.  Economic History Joint Seminar, The Faculties and the Research       School of Social Sciences.  November 1986.
    The Australian National University.  Australia-Japan Research Centre. Discussant for Conference on     Corporate Organization and Trade in Technology and Services.  February 1987.
    Victoria University of Wellington.  Department of Economics.  March 1987.
    The Australian National University.  Australia-Japan Research Centre.  Research School of Pacific Studies     March 1987.
    The Australian National University.  Department of Economics, Research School of Social Sciences.  May     1987.
    University of Melbourne.  Faculty of Commerce.  May 1987.
    The Australian National University.  Economic History Joint Seminar, The Faculties and the Research       School of Social Sciences.  June 1987.
    The Australian National University Research School of Social Sciences.  Conference on Human Resources     September 1987.
    Economic History Association Annual Meeting.  San Francisco, California.  September 1987.
    Harvard University.  Workshop in Economic History.  October 1987.
    University of Illinois.  Department of Economics.  December 1987.
    University of Connecticut.  Department of Agricultural Economics. February 1988.
    The Washington Area Economic Historians.  Washington, D.C.  March 1988.
    Indiana University.  Workshop in Economic History.  April 1988.
    University of Chicago.  Workshop in Economic History.  April 1988.
    Sixth International Seminar on the New Institutional Economics, Wallerfangen, West Germany.  June        1988.
    Economic History Association Annual Meeting.  Detroit, Michigan. September 1988.
    Northwestern University.  Workshop in Economic History.  December 1988.
    The XVI Conference on Quantitative Methods in Canadian Economic  History. Toronoto Canada                  March 1989..
    University of Chicago. Workshop in Economic History. April 1988.                                                          The Economics Institute. Boulder Colorado. May 1989.                                                                              The University of Illinois. Workshop in Economic History. May 1989.                                                  Conference on "Constitutions, Property Rights and Indian Economies." Bozeman Montana. June 1989.    Second World Congress of Cliometrics. University de Cantabria. Santander, Spain.  June 1989.
    Economic History Association Annual Meeting. Washington D.C. September 1989.
    Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo De Mexico. Mexico City.  November 1989.
    Social Science History Workshop. The University of Texas at Austin. February 1990.
    University of Arizona Economics Workshop.  April 1990.
    Cliometrics Conference.  University of Illinois.  May 1990.
    CERES/Fulbright Conference on Institutions and Economic Development. Montevideo, Uruguay.  June      1990.
    Conference on the Firm.  University of Chicago Law School.  June 1990.
    Economic History Association Annual Meeting.  Montreal, Quebec. September 1990. 
    University of Illinois. Workshop in Economic History.  October 1990.
    U.S. Soviet Seminar on the Market.  Moscow, USSR.  October 29-November 2, 1990.
    Brigham Young University.  Smith Chair Lecturer.  December 1990.
    Conference on "The Evolution of Labor Markets".  McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.  February 1991.
    The World Bank.  Washington, D.C.  February 1991.
    Queens University.  Economics Workshop.  Kingston, Ontario.  March 1991.
    Western Ontario University.  Economics Workshop.  London, Ontario. March 1991.
    University of Alberta.  Economics Workshop.  Edmonton, Alberta. April 1991.
    Cliometrics Conference.  Indiana University.  May 1991.
    Instituto de Planejamento Economico e Social.  Rio de Janeiro, June 1991                                          University of Illinois.  Labor Economics Workshop.  October 1991.
    University of Chicago.  Public Policy Workshop.  October 1991.
    Washington University.  Economic History Workshop.  January 1992.
    The World Bank.  Washington, D.C.  April 1992.
    Yale Law School.  New Haven.  May 1992.
    The Australian National University.  Canberra, Australia.  August 1992.
    Foundation for Teaching Economics.  Economic History Lectures. Cincinnati, OH.  October 1992.
    The XVII Conference on Quantitative Methods in Canadian Economic History.  Vancouver, British   Columbia. October 1992.                                                                                                              Bradley University.  Department of Economics Seminar.  Peoria, IL.  March 1993.
    University of Illinois.  Economic History Workshop.  May 1993.
    Tropical and Savannah Ecology Workshop.  Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the      Center for African Studies.  May 1993.
    University of Colorado.  Department of Economics Seminar.  Boulder, Colorado.  September 1993.
    University of Illinois.  Economic History Workshop.  Urbana, IL.  September 1993.
    Academy of Sciences.  Golden Gate Park.  San Francisco, CA.  October 1993.
    University of Texas at Arlington.  Arlington, TX.  October 1993.
    Economic History Association Annual Meeting.  Tucson, AZ.  September 1993.
    University of Illinois.  Development Workshop.  Urbana, IL.  February 1994.
    University of Michigan.  Ann Arbor, Mi.  February 1994.                                                                     Foundation for Teaching Economics.  Economic History Lectures. Cincinnati, OH.  March 1994.
    Northwestern University.  Evanston, IL.  June 1994.
    Twelve International Seminar on New Institutional Economics. Wallerfangen, Germany.  June 1994.
    University of Colorado. Boulder CO August 1994.

            Eleventh International Economic History Congress.  Milan, Italy. September 1994.     

            University of Colorado.Economic History Workshop. October 1994.

            The World Bank. Symposium on "Reorienting Government," Washington D.C. October 1994.

            Foundation for Teaching Economics.  Economic History Lectures. Los Angeles, CA November 1994.

            The Colorado School of Mines. Department of Economics Seminar. Golden CO.  November 1994.

            University of Colorado.Department of Economics Seminar. Boulder CO. December 1994.

            University of  California. Haas School of Business. Seminar. Berkeley CA. January 1995.

            Foundation for Teaching Economics.  Economic History Lectures. Augusta, GA February 1995.

            Lyon College. Symposium: "Regional Economic Development in a New Era," Batesville, AR March 1995.

            University of California - Riverside. Political Economy Workshop. Riverside CA. March 1995.

            University of California - Los Angleles. Political Economy Workshop. Los Angeles CA. March 1995.

            University of Southern California. Department of Economics Seminar. Los Angeles CA. March 1995.

            California Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Seminar. Pasadena  CA. March 1995.

            Washington University. Conference: "Frontiers of the New Institutional Economics." St. Louis MO. March      1995.

            University of Colorado. Institute for Behavioral Studies Seminar. Boulder CO. March 1995.

            Economic History Association Annual Meeting. Chicago IL. September 1995.

            University of Illinois. Department of Economics Development Workshop. October 1995.

            University of Toronto. Department of Economics Seminar. Toronto Ontario. November 1995.

            Queens University. Department of Economics Seminar. Kingston Ontario. November 1995.

            Vanderbilt University. Department of Economics Seminar. Nashville TN. November 1995.

            Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Miami FL. December 1995.

            University of Illinois. Seminar in Environmental and Resource Economics. February 1996.

            Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Salt Lake City, Utah. February 1996.

            University of Illinois. Department of Economics Development Workshop. March 1996.

            National Bureau of Economic Research. March 1996.

            Williams College. Department of Economics Seminar. April 1996.

            Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economics for Leaders Program. Santa Barbara, CA. July 1996.

            American Farm Bureau Federation. Economics Seminar. Chicago, IL. August 1996.

            Economic History Association Annual Meeting. Berkeley, CA Sepetember 1996.

            Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures.New York, NY.  October 1996.

            Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Miami, FL. December 1996.

            Vanderbilt University. Department of Economics Seminar. Nashville,  TN. January 1997.

            University of Delaware. Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. January 1997.

            Indiana University. Department of Economics Seminar. Bloomington,  IN. January 1997.

            The World Bank. Conference on Institutional Development. Washington, D.C. April 1997

            University of California-Santa Barbara. Department of Economics Seminar. Santa Barbara, CA 1997.

Bellagio Study and Conferece  Center. Conference on Latin America and the World Economy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Bellagio Italy. June 30-July 4, 1997

National  Bureau of Economic Research. Summer Institute. Cambridge, MA July 14-18, 1997

Northwestern University. Foundation for Teaching Economics. Lectures: “Economics for Leaders.” July 27- August 1, 1997.

University of San Francisco. Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. August 3-8, 1997.

University of Illinois, Department of Economics, Labor Economics Workshop. September 1997.

International Society of the New Institutional Economics, Innaugural Meeting. St. Louis MO September 1997.

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Milwaukee, WI. October 1997.

American Economic Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL January 1998

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Pasadena CA January 1998.

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Phoenix AZ February 1998. 

Conference on “The Legal and Cultural Challenges to International Business” Chicago IL February 1998.

National Bureau of Economic Research. Spring Meeting. Cambridge MA March 1998

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Jacksonville, FL April 1998.  

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Deland FL April 1998.  

Washington University. Department of Economics Seminar. St. Louis, MO. May 1998

Max Plank Institute. Jena Germany. May 1998

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Nebraska City, NE June 1998

National Bureau of Economic Research. Summer Meeting. Cambridge MA July 1998

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. Cambridge, MA July 1998

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Economic History Lectures. San Francisco CA July 1998

1st Annual Conference of the New Institutional Economics. Sao Paulo, Brazil August 1998

University of Rio Grande do Sul. Department of Economics Seminar. Porto Allegre, Rio Grande do Sul Brazil August 1998.

International Society of the New Institutional Economics, 2nd Annual Meeting. Paris France September 1998.

Institute for Government and Public Affairs, Annual Advisory Meeting. Chicago, IL November 1998.

University of California-Irvine, Conference on Social Conflict. Irivine, CA January 1999

University of California-Riverside, Public Lecture and Seminar for the Center for Ideas and Society.                January 1999

National Bureau of Economic Research. Spring Meeting. Cambridge, MA March 1999.

Harvard University. Joint Seminar in Economic Development and Economic History. Cambridge, MA. April 1999.

University of Uppsala. Seminar in Labor Economics. Uppsala Sweden May 1999

Stockholm School of Economics. Seminar in Economic History. Stockholm Sweden May 1999

University of Uppsala. Seminar in Economic History. Uppsala Sweden May 1999

Stockholm School of Economics. Lectures in the New Institutional Economics. Stockholm Sweden May 1999

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Summer Program. Nebraska City NE June 1999

Northwestern University. Workshop in Economic History. Evanston, IL June 1999.

NBER. Summer Institute. Cambridge MA July 1999

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Summer Program. San Francisco CA July 1999.

University of Illinois, Department of Economics, Labor Economics Workshop. August 1999.

Economic Research Forum. Conference on Budgetary Institutions. Beirut, Lebanon. September 1999.

University of Southern California. Joint Economics/International Relations Seminar. November 1999.

University of California-Los Angeles. Economic History Seminar. November 1999.

University of Calgary. Seminar in Economics. January 2000.

Indiana University. Economic History Workshop. March 2000.

Washington University. Joint Seminar With Law and the Social Sciences. March 2000.

Stanford University. Conference: “Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America.” April 2000.

Charles University. Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education. Workshop in Macroeconomics. Prague, Czech Republic. May 2000.

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Summer Program. College of William and Mary. Williamsburg VA June 2000

World Congress of Cliometrics. Montreal, Quebec Canada. July 2000

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Summer Program. Miami FL. July 2000

NBER Summer Institute. Cambridge MA July 2000

Foundation for Teaching Economics. Summer Program. San Francisco CA July 2000

University of Southern California. Departmental Seminar. Los Angeles CA September 2000

International Society of the New Institutional Economics, 4th  Annual Meeting. Tubingen Germany  September 2000.

Candadian Network of Economic History. Annual Meeting . Stratford , Ontario. Canada October 2000.

University of Sao Paulo. Seminar. Sao Paulo, Brazil. November 2000.

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Seminar in the Department of Economics.Porto Allegre Brazil. November 2000.

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Seminar in the Department of Economics. Rio de Janeiro Brazil. December 2000

Federal University of Brasilia. Seminar in the Department of Economics. Brasilia Brazil. December 2000

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:

            Trustee, Economic History Association (2000- )

            Review Panel for Economics for the National Science Foundation (2000-2001)
            Reviewer for National Academy of Sciences

            Review Panel for “Center” grants National Science Foundation
            Reviewer for National Science Foundation

Reviewer for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Program Committee. International Society for the New Institutional Economics. Annual Meeting September 1999.

Editorial Board Member and referee for Explorations in Economic History and Journal of Economic History.
Editorial Referee for: American Economic Review; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Economic History; Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; Explorations in Economic History; Journal of Labor Economics; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; American Historical Review; Economic Inquiry; Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics;Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economics & Management Strategey;  Journal of  Environmental Economics and Management; Journal of Money Credit and Banking; The Quarterly Review of Economics and Business; Industrial and Labor Relations Review; Social Science History; Economic Development and Cultural Change; Journal of Economics and Philosophy; International Regional Science Review; Journal of Human Resources; Resource and Energy Economics; Cato Journal; Journal of Forest History.

            Reviewer for publishers.
            Economic consultant for Senior Scholastic.
            Interviewed for and appeared on PBS series "Economics Outlook USA."
            Ph.D. Examiner, University of Calcutta.
            Ph.D. Examiner, Indian Institute of Technology.

 

TEACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

           

            University List of Exceptional Teachers, University of Illinois, 1988-2000.