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.