Research in Economic History

In this 37th volume of Research in Economic History, editors Christopher Hanes and Susan Wolcott assemble a group of lead experts to showcase new historical data, analyses of historical questions, and an investigation of historians’ networks.

Christopher Hanes has been Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at Binghamton (Binghamton University) since 2003, after teaching at the University of Mississippi and the University of Pennsylvania and serving as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board. His research primarily focuses on American macroeconomic history. His publications have appeared in journals including American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Economic History, and Explorations in Economic History. He graduated from Yale University and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

Susan Wolcott, Associate Professor of the Economics Department at Binghamton University, primarily works on issues related to the colonial development of India. Her publications include ＂Why Nations Fail,＂ from the Journal of Economic History, 1999, and ＂Strikes in Colonial India,＂ published in the Industrial and Labour Relations Review in 2008.