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Robert M. Whaples
Professor of Economics
Wake Forest University
Winston-Salem, NC 27109-7505
Telephone: 336-758-4916
Education
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, B.A., Economics and History, 1983
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Ph.D., Economics, 1990
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Department of History, and
Urban Studies Programs, 1988-1991
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, Department of Economics, 1991-96
Associate Professor, Wake Forest University, Department of Economics, 1996-2004
Professor, Wake Forest University, Department of Economics, 2004-
Chair, Wake Forest University, Department of Economics, 2006-2013
Hough Family Fellow, Wake Forest University, 2015-
Faculty Member in the Sustainability Graduate Program, Wake Forest University, 2015-
Independent Review
Co-editor and Managing Editor, 2013-
EH.Net (Online Economic History Services)
Director, 2003-2008
Associate Director, 1996-2003
Book Review Editor, 1996-present
Online Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, Editor, 2001-2010
Awards
Winner, 1990, Allen Nevins Prize, for the Outstanding Dissertation in American Economic
History. Dissertation Title: “The Shortening of the American Work Week: An
Economic and Historical Analysis of Its Context, Causes and Consequences.”
(Prize is awarded annually by the Economic History Association.)
Finalist, International Economic History Association, Dissertation Prize, 1994.
Winner, Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History, 1999
(awarded annually by the Economic History Association).
Wake Forest Center for Entrepreneurship and Wake Forest Entrepreneurship Society,
Service Leadership Award, 2009-2010
Publications – Books Historical Perspectives on the American Economy: Selected Readings, editor, with Dianne Betts, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1995.
Public Choice Interpretations of American Economic History, editor, with Jac C.
Heckelman and John C. Moorhouse, Kluwer Academic Press, 1999.
EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, editor, 2001-2010. This
online encyclopedia contains articles with a combined length of more than
1500 printed pages. http://www.eh.net/encyclopedia/.)
The Handbook of Modern Economic History, editor with Randall Parker, Routledge
(2012).
The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History, editor with Randall Parker,
Routledge (2013).
The Economic Crisis in Retrospect: Explanations by Great Economists, editor with Page
West, Edward Elgar (2013).
Future: Economic Peril or Prosperity? editor (with Michael Munger and Christopher
Coyne), The Independent Institute (2016).
Publications – Refereed Articles and Book Chapters “Winning the Eight-Hour Day, 1909-1919,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 50, no. 2, June, 1990. “Fraternalism, Paternalism, the Family, and the Market: Insurance a Century Ago,” Social Science History, with David Buffum, Vol. 21, no. 1, Spring, 1991. “The Urbanization Deflator of the GNP, 1919-1984: Comment,” Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 51, no. 4, April, 1991. “The Shortening of the American Work Week: An Economic and Historical Analysis of Its Context, Causes and Consequences,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 51, no. 2, June, 1991, also published in Proceedings of the 11th International Economic History Congress: Recent Doctoral Research in Economic History, Universita Bocconi, 1994. “A Quantitative History of the Journal of Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 51, no. 2, June, 1991. “Using Historical State Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports in Teaching,” Historical Methods, Vol. 25, no. 3, Summer 1992.
“Where Is There Consensus among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 55, no. 1, March 1995. (Reprinted in John W. Malsberger, editor, The American Economic History Reader: Documents and Readings, Routledge, 2008.) “Fear and Lathing in the Michigan Furniture Industry: Employee-Based Discrimination a Century Ago,” with David Buffum, Economic Inquiry, Vol. 33, no. 2, April 1995.
“The Historical Standard of Living among Polish- and Slovak-Americans: Evidence from Fraternal Insurance Records,” in John Komlos, editor, The Biological Standard of Living on Three Continents: Further Essays in Anthropometric History,
Westview Press, 1995. “Changes in Attitudes among College Economics Students about the Fairness of Markets,” Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 26, no. 4, Fall 1995. “Retirement, History of” in Lois Vitt and Jurg Seigenthaler, editors, Encyclopedia of Financial Gerontology, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 1996. “Consensus and Disagreement among American Economic Historians,” Social Epistemology, Vol. 10, no. 1, Spring 1996. Reprinted in Raymond McInnis, editor, Discourse Synthesis: Studies in Historical and Contemporary Social Epistemology, Praeger, 2001. “Political Business Cycles before the Great Depression,” with Jac Heckelman, Economics Letters, Vol. 51, May 1996. “Social Gerontological Models of Retirement and Employment of Older Persons,” with Charles Longino, in William Crown, editor, Handbook on Employment and the Elderly, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT, 1996.
“Is There Consensus among American Labor Economists: Survey Results on Forty
Propositions," Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 17, no. 4, Fall 1996.
“What Should Lawyers Know about Economics?” with Andrew Morriss and John
Moorhouse, Journal of Legal Education, Vol. 47, no. 4, December 1997.
“Law & Economics and Tort Law: A Survey of Scholarly Opinion,” with Andrew Morriss
and John Moorhouse, Albany Law Review, Vol. 62, December 1998.
“Economic History Online,” with Debra Morner and Samuel Williamson, Memoria e
Ricerca, special issue “Internet and History,” January-June, 1999.
“Economics and the Law: Where Is There Consensus?” with Andrew Morriss and John
Moorhouse, The American Economist, Vol. 43, No. 2, Fall 1999.
“Introduction,” (with Jac Heckelman, and John Moorhouse) in Jac Heckelman, John
Moorhouse, and Robert Whaples (eds.) Public Choice Interpretations of
American Economic History, Kluwer Academic Press, 1999.
“Anthropometrics,” (with John Komlos) in Peter N. Stearns (editor) The Encyclopedia of
European Social History, 1350 to 2000, Scribners, 2001.
“The Supply and Demand of Economic History: Recent Trends in the Journal of Economic
History,” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 62, No. 2, June 2002.
“If I Had a Hammer: Mancur Olson as an Economic Historian,” in Jac Heckelman and
Dennis Coates, editors, Collective Choice: Essays in Honor of Mancur Olson,
Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 143-64.
“Are Public Choice Scholars Different?” (with Jac Heckelman), PS: Political Science
and Politics, Vol. 36, no. 4, October 2003. “An Economic History of Retirement,” in Lois Vitt, editor, Encyclopedia of Retirement
and Finance, Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 2003.
“Public Choice Economics: Where Is There Consensus?” (with Jac Heckelman), The
American Economist, 49 (1), Spring 2005.
“The Costs of Critical Commentary in Economics Journals,” Econ Journal Watch,
3 (2), May 2006, 275-82.
“Do Economists Differ from Political Scientists on Public Choice: Evidence from a
Survey” (with Jac Heckelman), Korean Journal of Public Choice 1 (1), July 2006:
35-41.
“Collapse? The ‘Dismal’ Science Doesn’t Think So: Economists’ Views of the Future,”
The Independent Review, 11 (2), Fall 2006.
“Do Economists Agree on Anything?” The Economists’ Voice, 3 (9), November 2006.
“Time to Eliminate the Penny from the U.S. Coinage System: New Evidence,”
Eastern Economic Journal, 33 (1), Winter 2007.
“The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New
Survey,” Econ Journal Watch, 6 (3): September 2009.
“Is Economic History a Neglected Field of Study?” and “Rejoinder,” in Historically
Speaking, 11 (2), April 2010, pp. 17-20, 27.
“Economic History and Cliometrics,” (with Louis Cain) in Robert Whaples and Randall
Parker, editors, The Handbook of Modern Economic History (Routledge), 2012.
“Economic History and Entrepreneurship,” in Robert Whaples and Randall Parker,
editors, The Handbook of Modern Economic History (Routledge), 2012.
“Ten Economic Lessons from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” The Independent
Review, 18 (3), Winter 2014.
“Are Disagreements among Male and Female Economists Marginal at Best? A Survey of
AEA Members and Their Views on Economics and Economic Policy” (with Ann
Mari May and Mary McGarvey), Contemporary Economic Policy (January 2014).
“Were Andrew Jackson’s Policies ‘Good for the Economy’?” The Independent
Review, 18 (4), Spring 2014.
“Symposium on Successful Presidential Economic Policies,” The Independent Review, 18
(4), Spring 2014.
“Skeptical Thoughts on Tax-Payer Funded Basic Income Guarantees,” The Independent
Review, 19 (4), Spring 2015.
“The Future of the Economy: An Introduction” The Independent Review, 20 (3), Winter
2016.
“The Economics of Pope Francis: An Introduction,” The Independent Review, 20 (3),
Winter 2017.
Publications – Pedagogical “Should the Study of Economics Be Part of Your Future?” in Mark Rush, Study Guide: Parkin Economics, Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1995 (revised for Sixth Edition, 2002).
"Marginal Analysis: Costs and Benefits of Voting," Economic Times, Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall
1996, pp. 8-9
Test Bank for Microeconomics, Fourth Edition by Michael Parkin, Addison-Wesley, 1997.
Test Bank for Modern Labor Economics, Sixth Edition by Ronald Ehrenberg and Robert
Smith, HarperCollins, 1996.
Study Guide to Accompany Microeconomics by Jeffrey Perloff (with Charles Mason),
Addison-Wesley-Longman, 1999 (Second edition, 2001, Third edition, 2003,
Fourth edition, 2006).
Instructor’s Manual for Hubbard and O’Brien, Microeconomics (with Edward Scahill),
Prentice-Hall, 2006.
Modern Economic Issues: Course Guidebook, The Teaching Company, 2007.
“Understanding Economic History,” in William Bosshardt, editor, Focus: Middle School
History, Council for Economic Education (2011).
“Understanding World Economic History,” Social Education, 77 (2), March/April 2013,
pp. 59-61.
Publications – Shorter Contributions “Social Security,” Magill's Survey of Social Sciences: Economics, 1991.
“Carter Goodrich," in John Garraty and Mark Carnes, editors, American National
Biography, Oxford University Press, 1999.
“Hours of Work,” in Robert Whaples, editor, Online Encyclopedia of Economic and
Business History, September, 2001.
“Minimum Wage” and “Discrimination (Economics)” in Jonathan Michie, editors,
Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences, 2000.
“United States: Modern Period,” and “Cliometrics” (with Samuel Williamson) in Joel
Mokyr, editor, Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 2003.
“American Economic Association,” “Consumer Price Index,” and “Microeconomics,” in
Cynthia Northrup, editor, The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia,
2003.
“Workers’ Compensation,” “Estate Tax,” “Unemployment,” “Social Security,” and
“Parental Choice in Education,” in Dictionary of American History, edited by
Stanley Kutler, 2003.
“Lawrence Klein,” “Simon Kuznets,” “United States Postal Service,” in Syed B. Hussain,
editor, The Encyclopedia of Capitalism, Facts on File Inc., 2004. “Economic Depressions,” in Alice O’Connor and Gwendolyn Mink, editor, Encyclopedia of Poverty and Social Welfare, ABC-CLIO, 2004.
“AFL-CIO,” “Embargoes,” “Great Depression,” and “Population,” in Cynthia Northrup,
editor, Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present, M.E.
Sharpe, 2005.
“International Labor Organization,” in Ashish Vaidya, editor, Globalization:
Encyclopedia of Trade, Labor and Politics, ABC-Clio, 2005.
“United States Trade,” in John McCusker, editor, History of World Trade since 1450,
Macmillan, 2005.
“Andrew Carnegie,” in Robert Whaples, editor, Online Encyclopedia of Economic and
Business History, January, 2005.
“California Gold Rush,” and “Child Labor in the U.S.,” in Robert Whaples, editor, Online
Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, October, 2005.
“Earned Income Tax Credit,” “Employment Policies Institute,” “Robert Heilbroner,” and
“Andrew Carnegie,” in Mehmet Odekon, editor, Encyclopedia of World Poverty,
Sage, 2006.
“Andrew Carnegie,” in Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson, editors,
American Conservativism: An Encyclopedia, ISI Books, 2005.
“American Economy during World War I,” in Thaddeus Russell, editor, Encyclopedia of
the Home Front, ABC-CLIO, 2006.
“Congress of Industrial Organizations,” “Erie Canal,” and “Homestead Strike,” in
Christine Rider, editor, Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution,
2007.
“Catholic Worker Movement,” and “Transportation Revolution,” in Cynthia Northrup,
editor, The First, Second, and Third Industrial Revolutions: An Encyclopedia,
M.E. Sharpe, 2007.
“Cliometrics,” in Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, The New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
“Great Depression” and “New Deal,” in Ronald Hamowy, editor, Encyclopedia of
Libertarianism, Cato Institution, 2008.
“Gini Index,” “U.S. Postal Service” and “Wal-Mart Stores,” in Charles Wankel, editor,
Encyclopedia of Business in Today’s World, Sage Publications, 2009.
“William Henry Aspinwall,” “Cyrus Field,” “Andrew W. Mellon,” “Madam C.J.
Walker,” in Great Lives from History: The Incredibly Wealthy, Salem Press,
2011.
Other Professional Activities
BB&T Banking School
Summer Program, 1998-present
Business Library Review
Associate Editor, 1996-2001
Cliometric Society (1985-present)
Undergraduate Paper Prize Committee, 1995-97 (Chair, 1995)
Board of Trustees, 2009-2013 (Chair, 2013)
Economic History Association (1985-present)
Member, Membership Committee, 1990-1992
Member, Teaching Committee, 1990-92
Coordinator, Syllabus Exchange Program, 1990-1993
Member, Committee on Research in Economic History, 1993-96, 2005-08
Member, Committee on Data Bases, 1995-1998
Member, Local Arrangements Committee, 1998
Foundation for Teaching Economics
Economic Forces in American History, 2004-
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Principles of Liberty Program, 2015
Regional Leadership Conference, 2016
Independent Institute
Research Fellow, 2007-
Editor, The Independent Review, 2013-
Measuringworth.com
Board of Advisors, 2007-
Social Science History Association
Economic History, Network Co-Chair, 1993-96
Member, President’s Book Award Committee, 2002-2004
Member, Rockefeller Travel Award Selection Committee, 2005-2007
Book Reviews
1. Work without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work by Benjamin Kline
Hunnicutt, in Journal of Economic History, 49, March 1989, pp. 241-43.
2. Red November, Black November: Culture and Community in the Industrial Workers of the World
by Salvatore Salerno, in History: Reviews of New Books, 19, Fall 1990.
3. Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics, edited by Virginia Yans-
McLaughlin, in History: Reviews of New Books, 20, Spring 1992.
4. Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism by Mary Ann Clawson, in Journal
of Economic History, 52, March 1992, pp. 253-55.
5. Structural Changes in U.S. Labor Markets: Causes and Consequences, Edited by Randall Eberts
and Erica Groshen, in Southern Economic Journal, 59, January 1993.
6. Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 by Walter Licht, in Journal of Economic History, 53,
June 1993, pp. 436-37.
7. Income and Inequality: The Role of the Service Sector in the Changing Distribution of Income by
Cathy Kassab, in Southern Economic Journal, 60, July 1993, p. 274-276.
8. Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History edited by Donald N. McCloskey,
in The American Economist, 37, Fall 1993, pp. 91.
9. The Journey of Life: A Cultural History of Aging in America by Thomas R. Cole, in Journal of
Economic History, 54, March 1994, pp. 237-239.
10. Incomparable Worth: Pay Equity Meets the Market by Steven E. Rhoads, in Southern
Economic Journal, 60, April 1994, pp. 1095-1096.
11. The Economy in the Reagan Years: The Economic Consequences of the Reagan Administration
by Anthony S. Campagna, in Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 31, May 1994, p. 1478.
12. Retooling Social Security for the Twenty-First Century: Right and Wrong Approaches to
Reform by C. Eugene Steuerle and Jon M. Bakija, in Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books,
31, July 1994, p. 1769.
13. Economic Breakdown and Recovery: Theory and Policy by John Cornwall, in Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 32, Oct. 1994, p. 334.
14. Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History edited by Ronald C. Kent, Sara Markham,
David R. Roediger, and Herbert Shapiro, in Southern Economic Journal, 61, Oct. 1994, pp. 565-66.
15. The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914-1915: Espionage, Labor Conflict, and New
South Industrial Relations by Gary M. Fink, in History: Reviews of New Books, 23, Fall 1994, pp.
8-9.
16. Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History by Carole Haber and Brian
Gratton, in Journal of Economic History, 54, December 1994, pp. 964-65.
17. Trade and Wages: Leveling Wages Down? edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Marvin H. Kosters
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 32, Dec. 1994, p. 650.
18. Working Wives and Dual-Earner Families by Rose M. Rubin and Bobye J. Riney, in Southern
Economic Journal, 61, Jan. 1995, pp. 905-06.
19. Aging in the United States and Japan: Economic Trends edited by Yukio Noguchi and David
A. Wise, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 32 (5), Jan. 1995, p. 834.
20. Averting the Old Age Crisis: Policies to Protect the Old and Promote Growth, World Bank
Policy Research Report, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 32 (7), March 1995, p. 1172.
21. The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism by Russell Roberts, in The American
Economist, 39 Spring 1995, pp. 98-99.
22. Unemployment Insurance and Active Labor Market Policy by Günther Schmid, Bernd Reissert,
and Gert Bruche, Southern Business and Economic Journal, 18 (3), April 1995, pp. 229-231.
23. Studies in the Economics of Aging, edited by David Wise, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books, 32 (8), April 1995, p. 1351.
24. Labor Markets, Employment Policy and Job Creation, edited by Lewis Solmon and Alec
Levenson, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 32 (10), June 1995, p. 1640.
25. Activist Unionism: The Institutional Economics of Solomon Barkin, by Donald R. Stabile,
Business Library Review, 20 (3), July 1995, pp. 214-15.
26. Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, by David Card and Alan
B. Krueger, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 32 (11/12), July/August 1995, p. 1771
27. Between Melting Pot and Mosaic: African Americans and Puerto Ricans in the New York
Political Economy, by Andres Torres, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 33 (1),
September, 1995.
28. Urban Disorder and the Shape of Belief: The Great Chicago Fire, The Haymarket Bomb, and
the Model Town of Pullman, by Carl Smith, History: Reviews of New Books, 24, Fall 1995.
29. Uncaging Animal Spirits: Essays on Engineering, Entrepreneurship, and Economics, by Ralph
Landau, Business Library Review, 20 (4), Nov. 1995, pp. 326-27.
30-31. Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector, Paula B. Voos, Editor and
Copper Crucible: How The Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in
America, by Jonathan D. Rosenblum, Business Library Review, 21 (1), Mar. 1996, pp. 28-32.
32. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor, by
Nelson Lichtenstein, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 33 (8) April 1996.
33. Toward Competition in Local Telephony, by William Baumol and J. Gregory Sidak, Business
Library Review, 21 (2), June 1996.
34. Gastonia, 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike, by John Salmond, History: Reviews of New
Books, 24 (4), Summer 1996, p. 153-54.
35. Labour's Reward: Real Wages and Economic Change in 19th- and 20th-Century Europe, edited
by P. Scholliers and V. Zamagni, Southern Economic Journal, 63 (1), July 1996, pp. 289-90.
36. The Local State: Public Money and American Cities, by Eric Monkkonen, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 33 (11/12), July/August, 1996.
37. American Standards of Living, 1918-1988, by Claire Brown, Journal of Economic Literature,
34 (3), September 1996, pp. 1376-77.
38. The American Labor Movement, 1955-1995, by Walter Galenson, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books, 34 (1), September, 1996.
39. The Cost of Winning: Global Development Policies and Broken Social Contracts, by Michael
H. Cosgrove, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 34 (1), September 1996.
40. Fat and Mean: The Corporate Squeeze of Working Americans and the Myth of Managerial
"Downsizing", by David M. Gordon, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 34 (2), October,
1996.
41. The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume I: The Colonial Era, edited by
Stanley Engerman and Robert Gallman, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 34 (2),
October, 1996.
42. Labor Shortages as America Approaches the Twenty-first Century, by Malcolm S. Cohen,
Business Library Review, 21 (3), December, 1996, p. 237.
43. The Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment Debates, by Gregory Woirol,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 34 (4) December, 1996.
44. Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor, by Robert E. Weir, History: Reviews
of New Books, Winter 1997, 25 (2), p. 58.
45. A Penny A Copy: Readings from the Catholic Worker, Thomas C. Cornell, Robert Ellsberg, and
Jim Forest, editors, Business Library Review, 22 (1), March 1997, pp. 24-30.
46. The Emerging New Order in Natural Gas: Markets Versus Regulation, by Arthur De Vany, and
W. David Walls, Business Library Review, 22 (1), March 1997, pp. 48-49.
47. Trade Policy Ahead: Three Tracks and One Question, by Ernest Preeg, Business Library
Review, 22 (1), March 1997, pp. 96-97.
48. Stemming Middle-Class Decline: The Challenges to Economic Development Planning, by
Nancey Green Leigh, Business Library Review, 22 (1), March 1997, pp. 72-73.
49. Can We Afford to Grow Older? By Richard Disney, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic
Books, 34 (7), March 1997, p. 1207.
50. American Trade Policy, 1923-1995, by Edward S. Kaplan, Business Library Review, 22 (1),
March 1997, pp. 66-67.
51. Hands Off: Why the Government Is a Menace to Economic Health, by Susan Lee, Business
Library Review, 22 (1), March 1997, pp. 70-72.
52. To Sow One Acre More: Childbearing and Farm Productivity in the Antebellum North by Lee
A. Craig, American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 38 (1), Spring 1997, pp. 182-83.
53. A Living Wage for the Forgotten Man: The Quest for Fair Labor Standards, 1933-1941 by
George Paulsen, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 34 (8), April 1997.
54. The Quest for a Living Wage: The History of the Federal Minimum Wage Program by Willis
Nordlund, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 34 (10), June 1997.
55. stats.bls.gov (Bureau of Labor Statistics Internet Site), Choice: Current Reviews of Academic
Books, Special Supplement to Volume 34, August 1997.
56. Segmented Labor, Fractured Politics: Labor Politics in American Life, by William Form,
Business Library Review, 22 (2), September 1997, pp. 140-44.
57. Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890-1950, by James Kraft, Journal of
Economic History, 57 (3), September, 1997, pp. 758-59.
58. Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia, edited by David Glasner, EH.NET,
September 1997.
59. The State of Working America, 1996-97 by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John
Schmitt, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 35 (1), September 1997.
60. Not Just for the Money: An Economic Theory of Personal Motivation by Bruno S. Frey, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 35 (2), October 1997.
61. The Feminine Economy and Economic Man: Reviving the Role of Family in the Postindustrial
Age, by Shirley Burggraf, Business Library Review, 23 (2), December 1998, pp. 114-117.
62. On the Job Training, by John Barron, Mark Berger and Dan Black, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books, 35 (5), January 1998.
63. The Banking Panics of the Great Depression by Elmus Wicker, H-USA, January 1998
(www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=12476885938188).
64. Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing, by Louise Moser Illes, Business Library Review, 22
(3-4), February 1998, pp. 305-306.
65. The Mosaic of Economic Growth, edited by Ralph Landau, Timothy Taylor, and Gavin Wright,
Business Library Review, 22 (3-4), February 1998, pp. 233-238.
66. Financing Education: The Struggle Between Governmental Monopoly and Parental Control, by
Quentin Quade, Business Library Review, 22 (3-4), February 1998, pp. 318-20.
67. Smith & Nephew in the Health Care Industry, by James Foreman-Peck, Business Library
Review, 22 (3-4), February 1998, pp. 301-302.
68. Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870-
1939, by Mark Aldrich, History: Reviews of New Books, 26 (2), Winter 1998, p. 65.
69. Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal, by Sanford Jacoby, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 35 (5), March 1998.
70. A Living Wage: American Workers and the Making of Consumer Society by Lawrence
Glickman, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 35 (8), April 1998.
71. Health and Welfare during Industrialization, edited by Richard Steckel and Roderick Floud,
Journal of Economic Literature, 36 (2), June 1998, pp. 985-86.
72. stats.bls.gov (Bureau of Labor Statistics Internet Site), Choice: Current Reviews of Academic
Books, Special Supplement to Volume 35, August 1998.
73. Kellogg's Six-Hour Day by Benjamin Hunnicutt, EH.NET, September 1998.
74. Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law during World War II, James Atleson,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 36 (2), October 1998.
75. From Promise to Performance: A Journey of Transformation at SmithKline Beecham, by
Robert Bauman, Peter Jackson, and Joanne Lawrence, Business Library Review, 23 (2), December
1998, pp. 135-37.
76. The Judas Economy: The Triumph of Capital and the Betrayal of Work by William Wolman
and Anne Colamosca, Business Library Review, 23 (2), December 1998, pp. 171-73.
77. Cracking the Code: Making Sense of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax by Andrew Lyon,
Business Library Review, 23 (2), December 1998, pp. 152-54.
78. The Origins of American Public Finance: Debates over Money, Debt, and Taxes in the
Constitutional Era, 1776-1836, Donald Stabile, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 36
(4), December 1998.
79. The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City by Kyeyoung
Park, Business Library Review, 24 (1), March 2000.
80. Public Policy toward Cable Television: The Economics of Rate Controls by Thomas Hazlett
and Matthew Spitzer, Business Library Review, 24 (3), February 2001.
81. Energy: Ending the Never-Ending Crisis by Paul Ballonoff, Business Library Review, 24 (3),
February 2001.
82. Help or Hindrance? The Economic Implications of Immigration for African Americas edited by
Daniel Hamermesh and Frank Bean, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 36 (5), January
1999.
83. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America by Ira Berlin,
Business Library Review, 24 (4), December 2001.
84. All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement by Carlotta Anderson,
Business Library Review, 24 (4), December 2001.
85. The Causes of the 1929 Stock Market Crash: A Speculative Orgy or a New Era? by Harold
Bierman, Jr., Business Library Review, 24 (4) December 2001.
86. Canonizing Economic Theory: How Theories and Ideas Are Selected in Economics by
Christopher D. Mackie, Business Library Review, 24 (4), December 2001.
87. Moral Aspects of Economic Growth and Other Essays by Barrington Moore, Jr., Business
Library Review, 24 (4) December 2001.
88. Politics and Property Rights: The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South by
Shawn Kantor, Business Library Review, 24 (4), December 2001.
89. A New Deal for Social Security by Peter Ferrara and Michael Tanner, Business Library Review,
24 (4), December 2001.
90. Invisible Work, Invisible Workers: The Informal Economy in Europe and the U.S. by Madeleine
Leonard, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 36 (7), March 1999.
91. Organized Labor and American Politics, 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance edited by
Kevin Boyle, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 36 (8), April 1999.
92. Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886-1935 by Ruth
O'Brien, Journal of Economic History, 59 (2), June 1999, pp. 541-43.
93. A Historical Guide to World Slavery edited by Seymour Drescher and Stanley Engerman,
EH.NET, July 1999.
94. Teaching Economics to Undergraduates: Alternatives to Chalk and Talk edited by William
Becker and Michael Watts, Choice: Current Review of Academic Books, 1999, 37 (1), Sept.
1999.
95. The Black Worker in the 21st Century, Volume 1: Job Creation Prospects and Strategies
edited by Wilhelmina Leigh and Margaret Simms, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books,
37 (3), Nov. 1999.
96. Unintended Consequences: The Impact of Factor Endowments, Culture, and Politics on
Long-Run Economic Performance by Deepak Lal, Business Library Review, 24 (4), December
2001.
97. Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess by Robert Frank, Humane
Studies Review, 13 (4), Fall 2001.
98. Why Unions Matter by Michael D. Yates, Business Library Review, 24 (4), December 2001.
99. Securing Prosperity: The American Labor Market: How It Has Changed and What to Do
about It by Paul Osterman. Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 37 (5), Jan. 2000.
100. The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 by Dora Costa,
American Studies, 2000.
101. Heaven’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy by George Borjas, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 37 (6), February 2000.
102. Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949 by Glenn Feldman, Business Library
Review, 24 (2), October 2000.
103. Monopolies in America: Empire Builders and Their Enemies from Jay Gould to Bill Gates
by Charles Geisst, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 37 (9), May 2000.
104. Who’s Who in Economics (Third Edition) edited by Mark Blaug, EH.NET, Feb. 2000.
105. Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust by Jerold J. Duquette, Enterprise
and Society, 1 (3), September 2000.
106. Why Wages Don’t Fall during a Recession by Truman Bewley, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books, 37 (10), June 2000.
107. Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson, Business Library
Review, 24 (4), December 2001.
108. Back to Shared Prosperity: The Growing Inequality of Wealth and Income in America,
edited by Ray Marshall, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 38 (1), September 2000.
109. Gatekeepers of Growth: The International Political Economy of Central Banking in
Developing Countries by Sylvia Maxfield, Business Library Review, 24 (3), February 2001.
110. An Ocean Apart: Explaining Three Decades of U.S.-Japanese Trade Frictions by Stephen
Cohen, Business Library Review, 24 (3), February 2001.
111. Revolution at the Checkout Counter: The Explosion of the Bar Code by Stephen Brown,
Business Library Review, 24 (3), February 2001.
112. The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism by Robert Fogel,
thereviewer, Issue 1.47, June 25, 2000.
113. The Oxford Book of Work edited by Keith Thomas, thereviewer, Issue 1.48, July 2, 2000.
114. Education and Development: Measuring the Social Benefits by Walter W. McMahon,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 38 (3), November 2000.
115. Education in a Free Society edited by Tibor Machan, thereviewer, Issue 2.08, October 1,
2000.
116. Hard Work: The Making of Labor History by Melvyn Dubofsky, EH.NET, June 2001.
117. From Warfare State to Welfare State: World War I, Compensatory State Building, and the
Limits of the Modern Order, by Marc Allen Eisner, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books,
38 (5), January 2001.
118. Wages and Labor Markets in the US, 1820-1860 by Robert A. Margo, Southern Economic
Journal, 68 (1), July 2001.
119, Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor during the British
Industrial Revolution by Carolyn Tuttle, Business History Review 75 (2), Summer 2001.
120. A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation by Price Fishback
and Shawn Kantor, The Independent Review 6 (2), Fall 2001.
121. Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England, by
Mary Blewett, History: Reviews of Recent Books, 29 (1), Fall 2000.
122-123. The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume II: The Long
Nineteenth Century and The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volume III: The
Twentieth Century, edited by Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 38 (9), May 2001.
124. The Economics of Aging by James H. Schulz, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books,
38 (11), July 2001
125. Pensions, Politics, and the Elderly: Historic Social Movements and Their Lessons for Our
Aging Society by Daniel J.B. Mitchell, EH.NET, August 2001.
126. Only One Place of Redress: African Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from
Reconstruction to the New Deal by David Bernstein, Humane Studies Review, 14 (2), Spring
2002.
127. Much More than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921 by Robert
Burk, Enterprise and Society, 3 (1), March 2002.
128. The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause by Julian Simon, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books, 39 (1), September 2001.
129. Immigration and American Unionism by Vernon Briggs, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books, 39 (2), October 2001.
130. Pay at Risk: Compensation and Employment Risk in the United States and Canada edited
by John A. Turner, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 39 (3), November 2001.
131. Out of the Jungle: Jimmy Hoffa and the Remaking of the American Working Class by
Thaddeus Russell, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 39 (5), January 2002.
132. A Perilous Progress: Economists and Public Purpose in Twentieth-Century America by
Michael A. Bernstein, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 39 (8), April 2002.
133. Job Loss from Imports: Measuring the Costs by Lori G. Kletzer, Choice: Current Reviews
of Academic Books, 39 (9), May 2002.
134. Defining Global Justice: The History of U.S. International Labor Standards Policy by
Edward C. Lorenz, Review of Political Economy, 16 (1), January 2004.
135. State of the Union: A Century of American Labor by Nelson Lichtenstein, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 39 (11), July 2002.
136. Immigration Policy and the Challenge of Globalization: Unions and Employers in Unlikely
Alliance by Julie R. Watts, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 39 (11), July 2002.
137. A Life Against the Grain: The Autobiography of an Unconventional Economist by Julian L.
Simon, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 40 (2), October 2002.
138. Cotton’s Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation by George David Smith and Timothy
Jacobson, History: Reviews of Recent Books, 30 (4), Summer 2002.
139. Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice by Gordon Tullock, Arthur Seldon, and
Gordon Brady, Choice: Reviews of Recent Books, 40 (3), November 2002.
140. At Home and Aboard: U.S. Labor-Market Performance in International Perspective by
Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 40 (4),
December 2002.
141. Unions, Immigration, and Internationalization: New Challenges and Changing Coalitions
in the United States and France by Leah Haus, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 40
(5), January 2003.
142. The Backbone of History: Health and Nutrition in the Western Hemisphere edited by
Richard Steckel and Jerome Rose, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 40 (7), March
2003.
143. The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-1981 by Charles P. Korr,
Enterprise and Society, 4 (2), June 2003.
144. Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives on Worker Displacement, edited by
Peter J. Kuhn, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 40 (8), April 2003.
145. Not for Bread Alone: A Memoir by Moe Foner, Business History, 45 (4), October 2003.
146. Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II by
Charles D. Chamberlain, Enterprise and Society, 4 (4), December 2003.
147. The Worm in the Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education by
Peter Brimelow, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 40 (11), July 2003.
148. Public Choice III by Dennis C. Mueller, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 41
(2), October 2003.
149. Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss? by Lori
G. Kletzer, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 41 (2), October 2003.
150. Corruption and Reform in the Teamsters Union by David Witwer, Business History, 46 (2)
April 2004.
151. Can Labor Standards Improve under Globalization? by Kimberly Ann Elliott and Richard
B. Freeman, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 41 (3), November 2003.
152. Souls of the City: Religion and the Search for Community in Postwar America by Etan
Diamond, H-Catholic, March 2004.
153. Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 by Susan M. Sterett,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 41 (5), January 2004.
154. The Future of the American Labor Movement by Hoyt N. Wheeler, Review of Political
Economy, 18 (1), January 2006.
155. A Dictionary of Economics by John Black, EH.NET, March 2004,
156. The Decline of U.S. Labor Unions and the Role of Trade by Robert E. Baldwin, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 41 (6), February 2004.
157. Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War on Poverty by
Judith Russell, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 41 (9), May 2004.
158. Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 by
Christopher Newfield, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 41 (11), July 2004.
159. The Coming Generational Storm: What You Need to Know about America's Economic
Future by Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books,
41 (12), August 2004. .
160. The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border by David Bacon, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 42 (1), October 2004.
161. The Reluctant Economist: Perspectives on Economics, Economic History, and Demography
by Richard A. Easterlin, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, November 2004.
162. Labor’s Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism by
Jonathan Cutler, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 42 (5), January 2005.
163. The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics, edited by Dell P. Champlin and Janet T.
Knoedler, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 42 (7), March 2005.
164. A Guide to What’s Wrong with Economics, edited by Edward Fullbrook, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 42 (10), June 2005.
165. Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought, by
Stephen Tomlinson, History: Reviews of New Books, Spring 2005.
166. The Development of the National Economy: The United States from the Civil War through
the 1890s, edited by William J. Barber, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 42 (11)
July 2005.
167. Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success, edited by Samuel Bowles,
Herbert Gintis, and Melissa Osborne Groves, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 42
(11) July 2005.
168. Coal: A Human History, Barbara Fresse, Review of Political Economy, 21 (2), 2009.
169. Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits, Earl Grinols, Review of Political Economy, 21
(2), 2009.
170. Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime, edited by Alexander
Tabarrok, Review of Political Economy, 21 (3), 2009.
171. Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, edited by Joel Mokyr, EH.NET, April 2005.
172. Just around the Corner: The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery, by Stanley Aronowitz,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 43 (1), September 2005.
173. The Economic Implications of Aging Societies: The Costs of Living Happily Ever After,
by Steven A. Nyce and Sylvester J. Schieber, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 43
(3), November 2005.
174. Social Security: History and Politics from the New Deal to the Privatization Debate, by
Daniel Beland, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 43 (4), December 2005.
175. What You Need to Know about the Economics of Growing Old (but Were Afraid to Ask),
edited by Teresa Ghilarducci, Review of Political Economy, 22 (1), 2010.
176. Rethinking Pension Reform, by Franco Modigliani and A. Muralidhar, Review of Political
Economy, 22 (1) 2009.
177. Social Security and the Middle-class Squeeze: Fact and Fiction about America's
Entitlement Programs, by Leonard J. Santow and Mark E. Santow, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books, 43 (7), March 2006.
178. Reinventing the Retirement Paradigm, edited by Robert L. Clark and Olivia S. Mitchell,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 43 (8), April 2006.
179. Roosevelt, the Great Depression and the Economics of Recovery by Elliot Rosen, Journal of
Southern History, 73 (2), May 2007.
180. The Travels of a T-shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets,
Power and Politics of World Trade by Pietra Rivoli, American Economist, 50 (2), Fall 2006.
181. The Baby Bust: Who Will Do the Work? Who Will Pay the Taxes? edited by Fred R. Harris,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 43 (10), June 2006.
182. The Evolving Pension System: Trends, Effects, and Proposals for Reform edited by William
G. Gale, John B. Shoven, and Mark I. Warshawsky, Choice: Reviews of Academic Books, 44 (1),
September 2006.
183. Age Discrimination: An Historical and Contemporary Analysis by John Macnicol, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 44 (2), October 2006.
184. Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William F.
Ruddiman, EH.NET, July 2006.
185. Individual Accounts for Social Security Reform: International Perspectives on the U.S.
Debate, by John Turner, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 44 (2), October 2006.
186. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago: The First Labor Movement, and the Bombing
that Divided Gilded Age America by James Green, History: Reviews of New Books, 34 (4),
Summer 2006.
187. Envy of the World: A History of the U.S. Economy and Big Business by Timothy J. Botti,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 44 (4), January 2007.
188. Economic Turbulence: Is a Volatile Economy Good for America? by Clair Brown, John
Haltiwanger, and Julia Lane, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 44 (5), February
2007.
189. Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy, by Robert Higgs, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 44 (6), March 2007.
190. The Marketplace of Christianity, by Robert B. Ekelund, Jr., Robert F. Hébert, and Robert D.
Tollison, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 44 (8), May 2007.
191. The Baseball Economist: The Real Game Exposed, by J. C. Bradbury, Books and Culture,
July/August 2007.
192. What Do Unions Do? A Twenty-year Perspective, edited by James T. Bennett and Bruce E.
Kaufman, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books.
193. The Making of an Economist, Redux, by David Collander, Books and Culture, July/August
2008.
194. Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds, by John E.
Murray, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 45 (7), April 2008.
195. Redefining Retirement: How Will Boomers Fare? edited by Brigitte Madrian, Olivia S.
Mitchell, and Beth J. Soldo, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 45 (10), July 2008.
196. Inherited Wealth, by Jens Beckert, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 45 (10),
July 2008.
197. Global Capitalism Unbound: Winners and Losers from Offshore Outsourcing, edited by
Eva Paus, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 45 (12), August 2008.
198. American-made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work, by
Nick Taylor, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 46 (1), September 2008.
199. From Alienation to Addiction: Modern American Work in Global Historical Perspective,
Peter N. Sterns, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 46 (2), October 2008.
200. The Race between Education and Technology, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 46 (4), December 2008.
201. Union-free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture, Lawrence Richards, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 46 (7), March 2009.
202. The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict, Joseph E. Stiglitz and
Linda J. Bilmes, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 46 (9), May 2009.
203. Mellon: An American Life, David Cannadine, EH.NET, December 2008.
204. America Rising: Power and Political Economy in the First Nation, David Felix, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 46 (10), June 2009.
205. Good Money: Birmingham Button Merchants, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of
Modern Coinage, 1775-1821: Private Enterprise and Popular Coinage, George Selgin, Books
and Culture, July/August 2009.
206. Christian Theology and Market Economics, Ian R. Harper and Samuel Gregg, editors,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 46(12), August 2009.
207. Robber Baron: The Life of Charles Tyson Yerkes, John Franch, EH.NET, June 2009.
208. Sweet Tyranny: Migrant Labor, Industrial Agriculture, and Imperial Politics, Kathleen
Mapes, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 47 (2), October 2009.
209. An Economic History of the American Steel Industry, Robert P. Rogers, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 47 (3), November 2009.
210. Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War, Marc Egnal, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 47 (4), December 2009.
211. Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American
Prosperity by Brian Domitrovic, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 47 (6), February
2010.
212. The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good
by John Lauritz Larson, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 47 (8), April 2010.
213. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, T.J. Stiles, EH.NET, December
2009.
214. The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880-2000 by
Thomas A. Stapleford, Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, 41 (3), Winter 2010.
215. Violence and Social Order: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human
History, Douglass North, John J. Wallis and Barry Weingast, Faith and Economics, 55, Spring
2010.
216. Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians, edited
by John Lyons, Louis Cain, and Samuel Williamson, Journal of Economic History, 70 (3),
September 2010.
217. The African American Entrepreneur: Then and Now by W. Sherman Rogers, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 47 (11), July 2010.
218. Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940 by
Donald W. Rogers, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 47 (11), July 2010.
219. The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times
edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr, and William J. Baumol, Books and Culture 17 (4)
July/August 2011.
220. Military Economics: The Interaction of Power and Money, by Ron Smith, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (1), September 2010.
221. Marketplace of the Gods: How Economics Explains Religion by Larry Witham, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (2), October 2010.
222. The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion vs. Environmental Religion in Contemporary
America by Robert H. Nelson, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (3), November
2010.
223. New York Longshoremen: Class and Power on the Docks, William J. Mello, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (3), November 2010.
224. The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation by
Michael B. Boston, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (4), December 2010.
225. The Company Town: The Industrial Edens and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American
Economy, Hardy Green, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (5), January 2011.
226. Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry, Geoffrey Jones, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (7), March 2011.
227. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise, by
Robert Martello, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (7), March 2011.
228. AFSCME's Philadelphia Story: Municipal Workers and Urban Power in the Twentieth
Century by Francis Ryan, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (10), June 2011.
229. The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age by Rosanne
Currarino, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (11), July 2011.
230. There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America by Philip Dray, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 48 (12), August 2011.
231. A Great Leap forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth, by Alexander Field,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 49 (2), October 2011.
232-33. Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II, by Jim Lacey
and Better Living through Economic, edited by John J. Siegfried, Books and Culture, Dec. 2011.
234. Islamic Entrepreneurship by Rasem N. Kayed and M. Kabir Hassan, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books 49 (5), February 2012.
235. Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as
We Know It, by H.W. Brands, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 49 (4), December
2011.
236. Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty, by Lisa A. Keister,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 49 (7), March 2012.
237. Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development, by Robert A.
McGuire and Philip R. P. Coelho, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 49 (8), April
2012.
238. Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics, edited by Mark Blaug and Peter Lloyd,
EH.Net, December 2011.
239. Jewish Economies: Development and Migration in America and Beyond (two volumes) by
Simon Kuznets, edited by Stephanie Lo and E. Glen Weyl, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic
Books, 49 (11), July 2012.
240. Life and Labor in the New New South, edited by Robert H. Zieger, Choice: Current Reviews
of Academic Books, 49(12), August 2012.
241. Odd Couple: International Trade and Labor Standards in History, by Michael Huberman,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 50(2), October 2012.
242. The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History, by
David R. Roediger and Elizabeth D. Esch, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 50(3),
November 2012.
243. America’s Economic Way of War: War and the U.S. Economy from the Spanish-American
War to the Persian Gulf War, by Hugh Rockoff, EH.Net, July 2012.
244. The Business of Black Power: Community Development, Capitalism, and Corporate
Responsibility in Postwar America, edited by Laura Warren Hill and Julia Rabig, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 50(4), December 2012.
245. Chosen Capital: The Jewish Encounter with American Capitalism, edited by Rebecca
Kobrin, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 50(5), January 2013.
246. Eyes on Labor: News Photography and America's Working Class, by Carol Quirke, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 50 (6), February 2013.
247. The State and the Stork: The Population Debate and Policy Making in U.S. History, by
Derek S. Hoff, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 50 (8), April 2013.
248. Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private-sector Employment
since the Civil Rights Act, by Kevin Stainback and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 50 (10), June 2013.
249. Stories Economists Tell: Studies in Christianity and Economics by John P. Tiemstra,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 50 (11), July 2013.
250. Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How American Can Avoid a European
Future, by Samuel Gregg, The Independent Review 18 (3), Winter 2014.
251. Christian Economic Ethics: History and Implications, by Daniel K. Finn, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 51 (6), February 2014.
252. Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing, by Vaclav Smil,
Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 51 (7), March 2014.
253. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters, by Walter A.
Friedman, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books 51 (7), March 2014.
254. The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth’s Future, by Paul Sabin,
The Independent Review 19 (1), Summer 2014.
255. Corporate Nation, by Robert E. Wright, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books,
2014.
256. The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics, edited by Paul Oslington, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 2014.
257. Capital Wars: The New East-West Challenge for Entrepreneurial Leadership and Economic
Success, by Daniel Pinto, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 2014.
258. A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction, by Joel
Greenberg, The Independent Review 19 (3), Winter 2015.
259. The Nature of Value: How to Invest in the Adaptive Economy, by Nick Gogerty, Choice:
Current Reviews of Academic Books, 52 (4), December 2014.
260. Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires and the Dismal Science, edited by Glen
Whitman and James Dow, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books 52 (10), June 2015.
261. Capitalism by Gaslight: Illuminating the Economy of Nineteenth-Century America, edited
by Brian Luskey and Wendy Woloson, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 52 (12),
August 2015.
262. Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One by
Meghnad Desai, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 53 (2), October 2015 and (longer
version) The Independent Review 20 (2), Fall 2015.
263. The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity by Jeremy Beer,
The Independent Review 20 (4), Spring 2016.
264. The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection
by Werner Troesken, The Historian (forthcoming).
265. Andrew Carnegie: An Economic Biography by Samuel Bostaph, Choice: Current Reviews
of Academic Books, forthcoming.
266. The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
by Arthur C. Brooks, The Independent Review 21 (1), Summer 2016.
267. Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era by
Thomas C. Leonard, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, May 2016.
268. The Moral Economy: Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens by Samuel
Bowles, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 54 (2), October 2016.
269. Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University by Jon A.
Shields and Joshua M. Dunn, Sr., The Independent Review 21 (3), Winter 2017.
270. Breaking Rockefeller: The Incredible Story of the Ambitious Rivals Who Toppled an Oil
Empire by Peter B. Doran, EH.Net, August 2016.
271. Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World by D.N.
McCloskey, Faith and Economics, forthcoming.
272. Faithonomics: Religion and the Free Market by Torkel Brekke, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books, forthcoming.
273. Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 by Peter H. Lindert and
Jeffrey G. Williamson, forthcoming, Journal of Southern History.
Courses Taught
Wake Forest
ACP 101, Academic Competition Preparation
Economics 150, Introduction to Economics
Economics 205, Intermediate Microeconomics I
Economics 235, Labor Economics
Economics 241, Natural Resource Economics
Economics 261, American Economic Development
Economics 266/ESE 371, Economics of Entrepreneurship
Economics 270, Current Economic Issues
First Year Seminar: American Immigration
First Year Seminar: The Role of Government in the Economy
First Year Seminar: The Economics of War in America
First Year Seminar: The Future of Humanity
First Year Seminar: Entrepreneurs in American History
Honors 390, Interdisciplinary Seminar on Aging (guest lectures)
Humanities 357, Images of Aging in the Humanities (guest lectures)
Sustainability 702: Sustainable Organization Management
Wake Forest Service
Advisor to Omicron Delta Epsilon (Economics honor society), 1992-2013.
Campus, Academic
Member, Steering Committee, Writing and Learning Group, 1994.
Member, Wake Forest University Journalism Advisory Board, 1994-1999.
Member, Evaluation Committee (originally Committee for Evaluation of the Plan for the Class of
2000), 1995-2003
Member, Wake Forest University First Year Seminar Committee, 2005-08
Member, Provost's Fund for Academic Excellence Committee, 2008-2011
Member, Advisory Board for the BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, 2008-2013
Member, Dean’s Tenure and Promotion Advisory Panel, 2008-10
Member, Committee on Scholarships and Student Aid, 2009-2012
Member, Orientation and Lower Division Advising Committee, 2013- , chair 2014-
Lower Division Academic Advisor, 1996-
Chair, Dean’s Entrepreneurship Task Force, 2009
Chair of the Department Chairs, 2011-12