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Education:
AB
Economics, Brown University, 1975
MA Economics, Yale University, 1978
PhD Economics, Stanford University, 1984
Teaching
Specialties:
U.S.
Economic History
Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy
Topics in Economic History
Research
Interests:
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Political Economy of the American South to 1945
- United States Economic History
- Comparative Urban History and Regional Development
- Historical Development of the Banking and Telecommunications Industries
- U.S. Postsecondary Education with a Focus on Community Colleges
- Economic and Social Impacts of Mass Incarceration
- History of Economic Thought
- Political Economy
Major
Publications:
“The
Labor Market Consequences of Incarceration,” Crime and Delinquency,
Vol. 46, No.2 (July), 410-27. With Bruce Western and Jeffrey Kling,
2001
“Metropolitan Development, Regional Banking Centers, and the Founding
of the Fed in the Lower South, 1860 to 1920,” Journal of Economic
History, Vol. 58, No. 1 (March), pp.103-25. With Kerry Odell, Scripps
College, 1998
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