DEPARTMENT OF
ECONOMICS
FACULTY
ACTIVITIES REPORT
FOR JULY 1,
2000 TO JUNE 30, 2001
Study Guide (with Charles F. Mason) to accompany
Perloff Microeconomics, second
edition, 2001, Boston: Addison Wesley.
With
Jac Heclelman: Federal Reserve
Membership and the Banking Act of 1935: An Application to the Theory of Clubs,
in Heckelman et. al., ed., Public Choice Interpretations of American History:
Kluwer, 2000.
Salisbury:The
Life of a Statesman, American Institute for Economic Research, Oct. 2000.
“The Impact of International Agreements
on Domestic Policy: An Analysis of Tariff Policy in African Countries”. Atlantic Economic Journal. March 2001,
Vol 29, No. 1.
"Pre-commitment Mechanism and Policy
Credibility in African Trade Reform" (with Harvey Lapan). Review of Development Economics, February 2001, Vol 5, No. 1.
Article: “The
Puritan Roots of Daniel Raymond’s Economics,” History of Political Economy.”
Vol. 32, No. 3 (Fall 2000), 607-629
Review: Teaching
Economics to Undergraduates, eds. W. Becker and M. Watts. Economics of
Education Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (2001), 99-100.
Article: “The
Protestant Ethic Thesis,” in The Online Encyclopedia of Economic and
Business History, ed. Robert Whaples, EH.NET. Forthcoming, June 2001.
Hammond,
Claire
“Edith Abbott,” Biographical
Dictionary of Women Economists.
Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand and Evelyn Forget. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing
Ltd., 2000. Pp 1-8.
”Sophonisba
Breckinridge,“ Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists. Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand
and Evelyn Forget. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2000. Pp. 81-89.
“Katherine
Bement Davis,” Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists. Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand
and Evelyn Forget. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2000. 131-138
“Hannah Robie
Sewall,” Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists. Edited by Robert W. Dimand, Mary Ann Dimand
and Evelyn Forget. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2000. Pp. 393-396.
“Rose Director
Friedman,” in A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists, R.W.
Dimand, M.A. Dimand, E.L. Forget, eds., pp. 163-167, Cheltenham, UK and
Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2000.
Review of D.
Laidler, Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution, EH.NET, http://eh.net/BookReview/reviews,
2000.
“Consistent
Estimates of the Impact of Special Interest Groups on Economic Growth,” Public
Choice 104: 319-327, 2000
“Which Economic Freedoms Contribute to
Growth?” (with Michael D. Stroup) Kyklos 53, Fasc. 4: 527-544, 2000
“The Econometrics of Rational Partisan
Theory,” Applied Economics 33: 417-426, 2001
“Partisan Business Cycles under Variable
Election Dates,” Journal of Macroeconomics 23: 261-275, 2001
“Does
Information on the Internet Weaken the Case for Consumer Protection
Regulation?”, Journal of Private
Enterprise 16 (Spring 2001).
“Anthropometrics,” (with John Komlos) in Peter N. Stearns (editor)
The Encyclopedia of European Social History, 1350 to 2000, Scribners,
2001.
“History of the American Workweek,” in Robert Whaples
(editor), The Online Encyclopedia of
Economic and Business History, EH.NET.
Book
Reviews:
Review
of Gatekeepers of Growth: The
International Political Economy of Central Banking in Developing Countries
by Sylvia Maxwell, Business Library
Review.
Review
of An Ocean Apart: Explaining Three
Decades of U.S.-Japanese Trade Frictions by Stephen Cohen, Business Library Review.
Review
of Revolution at the Checkout Counter:
The Explosion of the Bar Code by Stephen Brown, Business Library Review.
Review
of The Fourth Great Awakening and the
Future of Egalitarianism by Robert Fogel, thereviewer, Issue 1.47, June 25, 2000.
Review
of The Oxford Book of Work edited by
Keith Thomas, thereviewer, Issue
1.48, July 2, 2000.
Review
of The Loss of Happiness in Market
Democracies by Robert Lane, Business
Library Review.
Review
of Education and Development: Measuring
the Social Benefits by Walter W. McMahon, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, 38 (3), November 2000.
Review
of Education in a Free Society edited
by Tibor Machan, thereviewer, Issue
2.08, October 1, 2000.
Review
of Hard Work: The Making of Labor History
by Melvyn Dubofsky, Business Library
Review.
Review
of 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.
Review
of Wages and Labor Markets in the US,
1820-1860 by Robert A. Margo, Southern
Economic Journal.
Review
of Hard at Work in Factories and Mines:
The Economics of Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution by
Carolyn Tuttle, Business History Review.
Review
of A
Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation by Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor, The Independent Review.
Review of Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century
New England by Mary Blewett, History:
Reviews of Recent Books.
Review
of 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.
Review
of Trust on Trial: How the Microsoft Case
Is Reframing the Rules of Competition by Richard B. McKenzie, Business Library Review International.
Review
of The Economics of Aging by James H.
Schulz, Choice: Current Reviews of
Academic Books.
“Economic
Freedom, Democracy and Economic Growth in Africa: An Institutional Approach”.
Presented at
The 2001 Annual
Conference of the Eastern Economic Association. New York, NY, February 2001
At the Wake
Forest University Economic Department Workshop Series, March 2001.
“The Development of Chicago Price Theory: Evidence from the Early
Friedman-Stigler Correspondence” with Dan Hammond. Paper for the History of Economics Society Meeting, University of
British Columbia, July 2000.
(With Claire Hammond), “The Development of Chicago Price Theory: Evidence
from the Early Friedman Stigler Correspondence.” History of Economics Society annual conference, Vancouver, BC,
July 2000.
“Columbia Roots of the Chicago School: The Case of Milton Friedman,”
Allied Social Sciences Associations, New Orleans, LA, January 2001.
“Absolute and Relative
Effects of Interst Groups on the Economy” presented
at Southern Economic Association meetings, Washington DC, November 2000
“Political Monetary Cycles: The Independent Treasury
versus the Federal Reserve”
presented
at Public Choice Society, San Antonio TX, March 2001
presented
at Cliometrics Conference, Tucson AZ, May 2001
History of Economics Society Meetings, Vancouver, B.C., June, 2000:
Chaired Session: “Keynes and Cambridge Economics.” Discussed two papers.
American Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington, Mass., June,
July, August, 2000
a.
Visiting Summer
Research Fellow
b.
Paper Presented: C.S. Peirce and
the Fixation of Belief
c.
Paper Presented: Peirce on Making
Our Ideas Clear
d.
Paper Presented: William James and
Psychological Pragmatism
e.
Paper Presented: Pragmatism and The
Methodology of Economics
f.
AIER Research
Report: “Rising Prescription Drug Expenditures, Prices and Advertising: Some
Economic Common Sense”
g.
AIER Research
Report: “Do We Pay for Our Prescription Drugs Twice?”
“Information
on the Internet: Implications for Consumer Protection”, International Atlantic
Economic Society Conference, Charleston, SC, October 15-18, 2000.
"Causeways
over the Morasses of Earlier Economic History? A Reflective Evaluation" or
"Reflections on Recent Trends in Economic History: An Analysis of the
Contents of the Journal of Economic
History." Social Science History Association meetings, Pittsburgh,
October 2000.
Wood, John
With
Jac Heckelman: Political Monetary
Cycles: The Independent Treasury vs. the Federal Reserve, at 2001 Cliometrics
Conf., Tucson, AZ, May 18-20, 2001.
III.
Editorships, Offices,
and Consultancies
Editorship or Membership on Editorial Boards of Scholarly Journals
Refereeing: Cambridge Journal of Economics, Review of Social Economy,
History of Political Economy, Prentice Hall.
Editorial
Board: Quaterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Editor, The Online Encyclopedia of Economic and
Business History, EH.NET (www.eh.net). The encyclopedia debuts in June 2001 and
will continue to expand.
Book Review
Editor, EH.NET.
Associate
Editor, Business Library Review
International.
Offices Held in Major Professional and Disciplinary Societies
President-elect, History of Economics Society
Associate
Director, EH.NET.
Consulting Activities
Refereed one article for Industrial and Labor Relations Review,
app. 12 hours
BB&T Bank,
taught one-week course for BB&T Banking School at Wake Forest University
(July 2000).
$12,500:
“Decentralization and Refore in Africa”. Agency: NSF