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GAVIN WRIGHT
William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History

Ph.D. Yale University; B.A. Swarthmore College.

Research Interests: American economic history; historical approaches to economic development, labor market analysis, technology.

Current Research: The historical origins of U.S. economic performance, slavery, and the American South; natural resources and economic development.

Recent Publications: (1) “The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History,” Journal of Economic History (1999); (2) “The Role of Nationhood in the Economic Development of the USA,” in Economic Change and the Nation State in History; 2002; (3) “Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon,” in Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms and Countries, NBER, 1998.

Teaching Interests: American economic history, graduate and undergraduate, introductory economics, Social Science History Workshop.

Professional Affiliations: AEA, Economic History Association, Cliometrics Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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