Price V. Fishback

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Price V. Fishback
Citizenship
Law and Economics
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Butler University
Doctoral
advisor
Robert Higgs

Price V. Fishback (born c. 1955) is an economic historian. He is a professor of economics at the

Cliometric Society via their awarding him a Clio Can in recognition of his "exceptional support of cliometrics".[1][2] Prior to arriving to the University of Arizona, Fishback was an Assistant and later Associate Professor at the University of Georgia
.

Education

Fishback received a B.A. with honors in Mathematics and Economics from Butler University in 1977. He then received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1979 and 1983, respectively. His Ph.D. Thesis was entitled "Employment Conditions of Blacks in the Coal Industry, 1900-1930." His advisor was Robert Higgs.[3]

Selected publications

  • Fishback, P. V.; Kantor, Shawn E. (2000). Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Fishback, P. V. (1992). Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890 to 1930. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership, with Jonathan Rose and Kenneth Snowden. 2013. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  • "The Newest on the New Deal" Essays in Economic & Business History 36(1) (2018) covers distribution and impact of spending and lending programs; online

References

  1. ^ University of Arizona: Price V. Fishback (Accessed Jan 2016)
  2. ^ National Bureau of Economic Research: Price V. Fishback (Accessed Dec 2011)
  3. ^ "PRICE VANMETER FISHBACK" (PDF). University of Arizona: Department of Economics.

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