Summary of WFU Faculty Information Forms
Economics Department
2005-2006
I.
Publications, Performances, Exhibits
III. Editorships,
Offices, and Consultancies
I. Publications, Performances, Exhibits
Frey, Donald
Review: Henry George's Legacy in Economic Thought (ed. J. Laurent). In EH.NET reviews. May 2006
Review: Governing Academia (ed. R. Ehrenberg). In Economics of Education Review (2006)
Moorhouse, John
“Does Gun Control Reduce Crime or Does Crime Increase Gun Control?”, CATO Journal of Public Policy Analysis 26, (Winter 2006): 103-124, with Brent Wanner.
Whaples, Robert
1. Editor, EH.NET’s Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History. (Contents by the end of June 2006 exceed 1700 pages.)
2. Instructor’s Manual to R. Glenn Hubbard and Anthony P. O’Brien’s Microeconomics (with Edward Scahill), Prentice-Hall, 2006.
1. “The Costs of Critical Commentary in Economics Journals,” Econ Journal Watch, 3 (2), May 2006,
275-82.
2. “Child Labor” and “Gold Rush,” in Robert Whaples, editor, Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, 2005.
3. “Andrew Carnegie,” in Bruce Frohnen,
Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson, editors, American Conservativism: An Encyclopedia, ISI Books, 2005.
4.
“United States Trade,” in John McCusker, editor, History of World Trade since 1450, Macmillan,
2005.
5.
“International Labor Organization,” in Ashish Vaidya, editor, Globalization:
Encyclopedia of Trade, Labor and Politics, ABC-Clio, 2005.
6. “Earned
Income Tax Credit,” “Employment Policies Institute,” “Robert Heilbroner,” and “Andrew Carnegie,” in Mehmet
Odekon, editor, Encyclopedia
of World Poverty, Sage, 2006.
Book Reviews written this year:
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. What You Need to Know about the Economics of Growing Old (but Were Afraid to Ask), edited by Teresa Ghilarducci, Review
of Political Economy (forthcoming).
4. Rethinking Pension Reform, by Franco Modigliani and A. Muralidhar, Review of
Political Economy (forthcoming).
5. Social Security and the Middle-class Squeeze: Fact and Fiction about
6. Reinventing the Retirement Paradigm, edited by Robert L. Clark and
Olivia S. Mitchell, Choice: Current
Reviews of Academic Books, 43 (8), April 2006.
7.
8. 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, forthcoming.
9. The Baby Bust: Who Will Do the Work? Who Will Pay the Taxes? edited by Fred R. Harris, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books, forthcoming.
10. 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, forthcoming.
11. Age Discrimination: An Historical and
Contemporary Analysis by John Macnicol, Choice: Current Reviews of Academic Books,
forthcoming.
II. Papers
and Presentations Presented at Professional Meetings
Whaples, Robert
1. Discussant, Economic and Business Historical
Society meetings,
2. Discussant, Conference on History, Technology,
and Economy,
III. Editorships,
Offices, and Consultancies
Moorhouse, John
Editorial Board of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Whaples, Robert
Patterson,
Perry
Selection
Whaples, Robert
1. Book Review Editor, EH.NET.
2. Director, EH.NET.
3.
BB&T Bank, taught one-week course for
University (July 2005).
4. Foundation for Teaching Economics, taught one-week course on economic history to
high school teachers,