Gavin Wright

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Gavin Wright is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, University of Michigan, Princeton University, Stanford University, Columbia University

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PhD Economics Princeton University
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According to Wikipedia, Gavin Wright is an economic historian and the William Robertson Coe Professor of American economic history at Stanford University. He received his B.A from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. with distinction from Yale University. He has taught at that institution, the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Cambridge, and Oxford University.

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An evolutionary theory of economic change (1982) (8973)
The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective (1992) (483)
Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War (1989) (444)
The Political Economy of New Deal Spending: An Econometric Analysis (1974) (408)
The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940 (1990) (406)
Historical Statistics of the United States (2006) (349)
Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance (1997) (340)
General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution (1999) (209)
WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: The Myth of the Resource Curse (2004) (184)
The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. (1979) (181)
The Myth of the Resource Curse (2004) (163)
Towards a more historical approach to technological change (1997) (113)
Slavery and American Economic Development (2006) (110)
Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush (2003) (107)
Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of "Our Ignorance" (1999) (85)
Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. (1976) (82)
The Economic Revolution in the American South (1987) (81)
Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918–1947 (2003) (80)
Speculators and Slaves: Masters, Traders, and Slaves in the Old South. (1991) (73)
Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South (1974) (72)
The Efficiency of Slavery: Another Interpretation (1979) (66)
Cotton, Corn and Risk in the Nineteenth Century (1975) (63)
Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon (1999) (59)
General Purpose Technologies and Productivity Surges: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution (2005) (56)
Exorcizing the Resource Curse: Minerals as a Knowledge Industry, Past and Present (2002) (55)
Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles before 1880 (1979) (55)
The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History (1999) (54)
Escape from the market : negotiating work in Lancashire (1998) (52)
An econometric study of cotton production and trade before 1860 (1971) (48)
Slavery and the Cotton Boom (1975) (47)
Sharing the Prize (2013) (47)
The Question of Discrimination: Racial Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market (1990) (43)
The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century (1979) (42)
New Evidence on the Stubborn English Mule and the Cotton Industry, 1878‐1920* (1984) (41)
Safety-First, Gambling, and the Subsistence Farmer (1974) (36)
Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles, 1880–1930 (1981) (36)
The Effects of Pre-Civil War Territorial Expansion on the Price of Slaves (1972) (30)
Stubborn mules and vertical integration: the disappearing constraint? (1987) (29)
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800-1880. (1992) (28)
Race, Human Capital, and Labour Markets in American History (1994) (28)
Slavery and Anglo‐American capitalism revisited (2020) (25)
TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN COTTON SPINNING, 1878–1933 (2010) (24)
Freedom and the Southern economy (1979) (23)
Slavery and American Agricultural History (2003) (23)
Labor History and Labor Economics (1987) (23)
Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (2013) (22)
Technique, spirit, and form in the making of the modern economies : essays in honor of William N. Parker (1984) (21)
THE STRANGE CAREER OF THE NEW SOUTHERN ECONOMIC HISTORY (1982) (16)
Reckoning with Slavery. A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. (1977) (16)
National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms: The Globalization of Cotton Spinning, 1878–1933 (2010) (14)
Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition. Volume Two: Work and Welfare. (2009) (13)
British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: Capitalism and Slavery on the Islands: A Lesson from the Mainland (1987) (12)
The Origins of American Resource Abundance (1995) (11)
Gold Rush Legacy: American Minerals and the Knowledge Economy (2010) (11)
From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South: Central Georgia, 1800–1880. By Joseph P. Reidy. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. xvi, 360 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2061-X.) (1994) (11)
Historical Foundations of American Technology (2008) (10)
New and Old Views on the Economics of Slavery (1973) (10)
Understanding the Gender Gap: A Review Article (1991) (9)
Why Did the Democrats Lose the South? Bringing New Data to an Old Debate † (2018) (9)
Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA (2021) (9)
LABOR HISTORY SYMPOSIUM (2006) (9)
Edmund Ruffin and the Crisis of Slavery in the Old South: The Failure of Agricultural Reform (1988) (9)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (2004) (7)
The USA as a case study in resource-based development (2015) (6)
Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy Southern Economy Since the Civil War (1987) (6)
Reflections on One Kind of Freedom and the Southern Economy (2001) (6)
The Global Economy in the 1990s: Productivity growth and the American labor market: the 1990s in historical perspective (2006) (5)
TWO FORMS OF CHEAP LABOR IN TEXTILE HISTORY (2010) (5)
World Demand for Cotton during the Nineteenth Century: Reply (1979) (5)
Night work as a labor market phenomenon: Southern textiles in the interwar period☆ (1983) (4)
The New Deal and the Modernization of the South (2009) (4)
Voting Rights, Deindustrialization, and Republican Ascendancy in the South (2020) (4)
The Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders. By James Oakes. (New York: Knopf, 1982. xix + 307 pp. Tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $16.95.) (1982) (4)
The Regional Economic Impact of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (2015) (4)
RINGS AND MULES AROUND THE WORLD: A COMPARATIVE STUDY IN TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE (2010) (4)
The Historical Statistics of the United States 5 Volume Hardback Set (2006) (3)
Stanford Law School (1998) (3)
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (review) (2000) (3)
Understanding Greenback Inflation and Deflation: An Asset—Pricing Approach (2008) (3)
Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960. By Jack Temple Kirby. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 390. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper (1987) (3)
The Role of Nationhood in the Economic Development of the USA (2000) (2)
Flush Times & Fever Dreams: A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson (2013) (2)
Economic History, Quantitative: United States (2001) (2)
From Rights to Economics: The Ongoing Struggle for Black Equality in the U.S. South (2009) (2)
King and the other America: the Poor People’s Campaign and the quest for economic equality (2019) (2)
THE JAPANESE ECONOMY IN RETROSPECT:Selected Papers by Gary R Saxonhouse(In 2 Volumes) (2010) (2)
Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation. By Edward B. Barbier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 748. $105.00, hardcover; $48.00, paper (2011) (2)
3. WORLD WAR II, THE COLD WAR, AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMIES OF THE PACIFIC COAST (2020) (2)
Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom. By Robert Gudmestad. (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. Pp. xii, 280. $42.50.) (2013) (2)
Regulation in American History: The Human Touch@@@Prophets of Regulation: Charles Francis Adams, Louis D. Brandeis, James M. Landis, Alfred E. Kahn. (1986) (2)
International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries since 1870. Edited by Mary B. Rose · London: Frank Cass, 1991. 194 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $32.00. ISBN 0-7146-3412-3 (1992) (2)
Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 469. $29.95 cloth, $10.95 paper (1984) (2)
New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. ix, 206. $19.00 (1986) (1)
THE ECONOMICS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION (2006) (1)
The Century’s Giant: An Obituary of Economist Kenneth Arrow (2017) (1)
Daniel Amsterdam. Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State. (2017) (1)
The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Howard Bodenhorn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 320. $39.95, cloth (2016) (1)
Urban Entrepreneurship in the Post-Civil Rights South (2008) (1)
Capitalism, Slavery, and Republican Values: Antebellum Political Economists, 1819–1848. By Allen Kaufman. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982.xxx + 189 pp. Notes and index. $25.00.) (1983) (1)
DEAD POETS’ PROPERTY- (2013) (1)
Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy (2022) (1)
The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936–1980 . By James C. Cobb. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 293. $16.95. (1982) (1)
THE ECONOMICS OF CIVIL RIGHTS (2003) (1)
Encyclopedia of Southern Culture . Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xxi, 1634. $59.95. (1990) (1)
Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. By Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xx + 398 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, references, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-17049-7. (2016) (1)
Comment on Papers by Reid, Ransom and Sutch, and Higgs (1973) (1)
LEARNING SUSTAINABILITY ON THE FARM: EXPLORING ACADEMIC PROGRAMS AT THE CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS AT UBC FARM (2009) (1)
Cliometrics in Ohio: A Consumer's Guide@@@Essays in Nineteenth Century Economic History: The Old Northwest. (1976) (1)
The Antebellum US Economy (2019) (1)
Black Migration in America: A Special Demographic History . By Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 190. $16.75 cloth, $8.95 paper. (1981) (1)
Ryan A. Quintana. Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina. (2020) (0)
Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina. By Anthony J. Badger. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 295. $20.00 (1981) (0)
Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance (review) (1999) (0)
NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement ed. by Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring (review) (2021) (0)
The Race Between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 488. $39.95, cloth (2009) (0)
Title VII in Economic-Historical Perspective (2014) (0)
No . 586 Introduction and Overview to Volumes I and II , The Japanese Economy in Retrospect : Selected Papers (2009) (0)
William Nelson Parker (2007) (0)
The United States and the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Americas, 1776–1867. By Leonardo Marques. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. Pp. xi, 313. $40.00.) (2018) (0)
Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607–1972. By John T. Schlebecker. Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1975. Pp. x + 342. $12.95 (1976) (0)
Legacies of the War on Poverty. Edited by Bailey Martha J. and Danziger Sheldon. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (The National Poverty Series on Poverty and Public Policy). 2013. Pp. xii, 309. $39.95, paper (2014) (0)
Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History. By Claudia Dale Goldin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xvi + 168 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) (1977) (0)
Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. Edited by Thavolia Glymph and John J. Kushma. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. x + 119 pp. $17.50.) (1986) (0)
Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebelum North@@@Black Migration and Poverty: Boston 1865-1900 (1980) (0)
Introduction and Overview to Volumes I and II, The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers by Gary R. Saxonhouse (2009) (0)
Book Review:Late Nineteenth Century American Development: A General Equilibrium History Jeffrey G. Williamson (1976) (0)
The Reinterpretation of American Economic History. Edited by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Pp. 494 (1972) (0)
John D. Skrentny, After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014, $35.00/£24.95). Pp. xiv + 397. isbn 978 0 6911 5996 6. (2015) (0)
FROM THE ECONOMICS OF QWERTY TO THE MILLENNIUM BUG , AND BEYOND Just-inTime for Y 2 K , and Next ... For Irreversible Global Warming and Environmental Catastrophe ? (2008) (0)
Book Reviews (2013) (0)
The NZ Health IT Cluster (2004) (0)
BookAn evolutionary theory of economic change: by Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982. (1982) (0)
Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852 (2008) (0)
Nathan Rosenberg (22 November 1927–24 August 2015) (2015) (0)
Natural Resources in American Economic History (2018) (0)
Economics as Postbellum Southern History@@@Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy since the Civil War. (1988) (0)
Dissertation Comments (1974) (0)
Working for Equality: The Narrative of Harry Hudson (2015) (0)
GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert J. Steinfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 329. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper. (2001) (0)
Economic History and American Historians (2011) (0)
Recovery and Redistribution Under the Nira. By Michael M. Weinstein. Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980. Pp. xv + 171. $36.50 (1982) (0)
Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America by John Lauritz Larson (review) (2020) (0)
The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. (1980) (0)
Animal magic uncloaked (2003) (0)
The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 494. $27.95 (1988) (0)
Laid Waste! The Culture of Exploitation in Early America. By John Lauritz Larson (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020) 299 pp. $39.95 (2020) (0)
Cholmondeley Children's Home and Outreach Services (2005) (0)
Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation (review) (2009) (0)
1 Goals and Plans in Farmers ’ Crop-Growing Decision Making (2008) (0)
Quantifying Slavery and the Slave Trade@@@Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere: Quantitative Studies@@@Reckoning with Slavery (1978) (0)
The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-Bellum South. By John W. Blassingame. New York, Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 262. $7.95 (1973) (0)
United States and Canada (1999) (0)
SESSION 5A: PRODUCTIVITY (2001) (0)
Biographical Memoirs: William Nelson Parker (2007) (0)
Gold and Freedom: The Political Economy of Reconstruction (2016) (0)
The Japanese economy in retrospect : selected papers (2009) (0)
Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South (2012) (0)
The Stanford Tradition in Economic History (2011) (0)
The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers of Gary R. Saxonhouse (Description and Table of Contents) (2010) (0)
John Majewski. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3251-6, $31.96 (cloth) (2009) (0)
“Fear God and Walk Humbly”: The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843–1877. Edited by Grady McWhiney, Warner O. Moore Jr., and Robert F. Pace. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 687. $49.95 (1998) (0)
Introduction: Fifty Years of Interdisciplinary History 1970–2020 (2019) (0)
The South, the Nation, and the World: Perspectives on Southern Economic Development (review) (2004) (0)
The Path to a Modern South : Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and the Great Depression (2002) (0)
The Industrious Revolution In America (2011) (0)
Economic History as a Cure for Economics (2021) (0)
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Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. By Pete Daniel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2000. Pp. xii, 378. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper (2000) (0)
Race, region, and the new deal: reflections on Ira Katznelson's Fear Itself (2015) (0)
Getting Work and Economic History (1994) (0)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Edited by Joel Mokyr, Editor in Chief. Five Volumes. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 2,800. $695. (2004) (0)
Contributors (1966) (0)
Rethinking the Postbellum Southern Political Economy (1984) (0)
IN MEMORIAM MOSES ABRAMOVITZ 1912 2000 (2001) (0)

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