Naomi Lamoreaux
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Naomi Lamoreaux's Degrees
- PhD Economics University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Economics University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Naomi Raboy Lamoreaux is an American economic historian, specializing in US business and technological history. She is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History of Economics and History at Yale University and an emeritus professor at UCLA and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has worked widely on business, economic, and financial history with perhaps her most noted works being her 1988 book The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 and her 1996 book Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections and her Economic Development in Industrial New England. Lamoreaux was elected to the presidencies of both the Business History Conference and the Economic History Association. She has been awarded several prizes for her academic work including the Arthur Cole article prize and the Cliometric Society's Clio Can. She has served on the editorial boards for numerous journals in the field of economic history, including the Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Essays in Economic and Business History, and Capitalism and History.
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Published Works
- Business Organization and the Myth of the Market Economy (1992) (705)
- Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England (1996) (299)
- Historical Financing of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (2005) (220)
- Putting the Corporation in its Place (2007) (185)
- Legal Regime and Contractual Flexibility: A Comparison of Business’s Organizational Choices in France and the United States during the Era of Industrialization (2005) (174)
- Insider Lending by Naomi R. Lamoreaux (1994) (169)
- The great merger movement in American business, 1895–1904: High fixed costs and rapid expansion: a model of price warfare and two examples (1985) (163)
- Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise ed. by Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Daniel M. G. Raff (1996) (138)
- Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1997) (131)
- Front matter, Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries (1998) (121)
- Market Trade in Patents and the Rise of a Class of Specialized Inventors in the 19th-Century United States (2001) (109)
- Banks, Kinship, and Economic Development: The New England Case (1986) (106)
- Financing innovation in the United States, 1870 to the present (2007) (92)
- Inventive Activity and the Market for Technology in the United States, 1840-1920 (1999) (91)
- Intermediaries in the U.S. Market for Technology, 1870-1920 (2002) (85)
- Long-term change in the organization of inventive activity. (1996) (82)
- DID J. P. MORGAN’S MEN ADD VALUE? (1990) (79)
- The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890-1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (1990) (68)
- The Geography of Invention in the American Glass Industry, 1870–1925 (2000) (62)
- Partnerships, Corporations, and the Theory of the Firm (1998) (62)
- Partnerships, Corporations, and the Limits on Contractual Freedom in U.S. History: An Essay in Economics, Law, and Culture (2004) (57)
- Legal Regime and Business&Apos;S Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States (2004) (54)
- Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. (1995) (53)
- Rethinking the Transition to Capitalism in the Early American Northeast (2003) (52)
- Regulatory Races: The Effects of Jurisdictional Competition on Regulatory Standards (2016) (51)
- The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpterian Story? (2005) (50)
- Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States Before the Great Depression (2004) (49)
- The Problem of Bigness: From Standard Oil to Google (2019) (46)
- Against Whig History (2004) (46)
- The Mystery of Property Rights: A U.S. Perspective (2011) (40)
- The Future of Economic History Must Be Interdisciplinary (2015) (39)
- American Capitalism (2018) (38)
- Patent Alchemy: The Market for Technology in US History (2013) (36)
- Location and Technological Change in the American Glass Industry During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (1997) (31)
- Scylla or Charybdis? Historical Reflections on Two Basic Problems of Corporate Governance (2009) (29)
- New Economic Approaches to the Study of Business History (1997) (28)
- Constructing Firms: Partnerships and Alternative Contractual Arrangements in Early Nineteenth-Century American Business (1995) (24)
- Mobilizing Venture Capital during the Second Industrial Revolution: Cleveland, Ohio, 1870-1920 (2006) (23)
- Coordination and Information (1995) (22)
- Contractual Freedom and Corporate Governance in Britain in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries (2017) (20)
- Mergers and the Rise of Big Business@@@The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904. (1986) (20)
- Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy: Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy (2011) (19)
- Reframing the Past: Thoughts about Business Leadership and Decision Making under Uncertainty (2001) (19)
- Entrepreneurship, Business Organization, and Economic Concentration (2000) (18)
- Bank Mergers in Late Nineteenth-Century New England: The Contingent Nature of Structural Change (1991) (18)
- The great merger movement in American business, 1895–1904: Frontmatter (1985) (18)
- The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century (2009) (17)
- 1. Early American Corporations and the State (2017) (17)
- Economic Theory and Business History (2008) (15)
- Information Problems and Banks' Specialization in Short-Term Commercial Lending: New England in the Nineteenth Century (1991) (14)
- 10. Citizens United, Personhood, and the Corporation in Politics (2017) (14)
- Vehicles of Privilege or Mobility? Banks in Providence, Rhode Island, during the Age of Jackson (1991) (14)
- Introduction to "Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries" (1999) (14)
- Contractual Tradeoffs and Smes Choice of Organizational Form, a View from U.S. And French History, 1830-2000 (2006) (12)
- CHAPTER 3. Economic History and the Cliometric Revolution (1999) (12)
- Corporations and American Democracy: An Introduction (2017) (12)
- Biographical dictionary of American business leaders (1983) (12)
- SOCIAL DIVISIONS AND PUBLIC GOODS PROVISION: EVIDENCE FROM COLONIAL INDIA (2006) (12)
- 4. The Public Utility Idea and the Origins of Modern Business Regulation (2017) (11)
- Corporations and American Democracy (2017) (11)
- Risk and Reward: Venture Capital and the Making of America's Great Industries (1987) (11)
- Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth (2011) (10)
- Intellectual Property Rights , Input Markets , and the Value of Intangible Assets (1999) (9)
- Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm: An International History of Private Limited Companies (2007) (9)
- Rethinking Microhistory: A Comment (2006) (9)
- Did Insecure Property Rights Slow Economic Development? Some Lessons from Economic History (2005) (9)
- Introduction to "Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development" (2017) (8)
- Ages of American Capitalism: A History of the United States (2022) (8)
- Chapter 13. Entrepreneurship in the United States, 1865–1920 (2010) (7)
- Corporate governance and the expansion of the democratic franchise: beyond cross-country regressions (2016) (7)
- Revisiting American Exceptionalism: Democracy and the Regulation of Corporate Governance in Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania (2014) (7)
- Introduction: The Organization and Finance of Innovation in American History (2007) (7)
- Contractual Freedom and the Evolution of Corporate Control in Britain, 1862 to 1929 (2014) (6)
- Insider lending: The merger movement in banking (1994) (6)
- Chandler's Own Economies of Scope@@@Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism. (1991) (5)
- Introduction: History and Theory in Search of One Another (1995) (5)
- Industrial Organization and Market Behavior: The Great Merger Movement in American Industry (1980) (5)
- Economic Crisis, General Laws, and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transformation of American Political Economy (2020) (5)
- Beyond The Old and The New (2015) (5)
- 9. Two Cheers for Vertical Integration: Corporate Governance in a World of Global Supply Chains (2017) (5)
- Export Booms and Labor Coercion: Evidence from the Lancashire Cotton Famine (2020) (4)
- New England in the Nineteenth Century (1991) (4)
- Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: Contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (2018) (4)
- Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State: Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900 (2015) (3)
- 6. From Fiscal Triangle to Passing Th rough: Rise of the Nonprofit Corporation (2017) (3)
- Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation: The Decline of the Independent Inventor (2011) (3)
- 7. The Supreme Court’s View of Corporate Rights: Two Centuries of Evolution and Controversy (2017) (3)
- Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Litigation in Public Regulation, from the 1880s to the 1930s (2021) (3)
- Revisiting American Exceptionalism: Democracy and the Regulation of Corporate Governance: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Pennsylvania in Comparative Context (2014) (3)
- Contractual Flexibility within the Common Law: Organizing Private Companies in Britain and the United States (2016) (2)
- Interchange: Corruption Has a History (2019) (2)
- 2. Corporations and Organizations in the United States aft er 1840 (2017) (2)
- The great merger movement in American business, 1895–1904: The great merger movement and antitrust policy (1985) (2)
- Assessing the Long-Term Effects of Financial Crisis on Innovation: The Case of Cleveland, Ohio, 1920-1940 (2011) (2)
- 8 Corporations and the Fourteenth Amendment (2017) (2)
- The Structure of Early Banks in Southeastern New England= Some Social and Economic Implications (1984) (1)
- Insider lending: Engines of economic development (1994) (1)
- Voting Trusts and Antitrust in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy (2018) (1)
- Review article – Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms and Countries (1999) (1)
- Voting Trusts and Antitrust: Rethinking the Role of Shareholder Rights and Private Litigation in Public Regulation, 1880s to 1930s (2019) (1)
- Do Innovative Regions Inevitably Decline? Lessons from Cleveland's Experience in the 1920s (2007) (1)
- The Battle Over Patents: History and the Politics of Innovation (2021) (1)
- ‘No Arbitrary Discretion’: Specialisation in Short-Term Commercial Lending by Banks in Late Nineteenth-Century New England (1991) (1)
- Were Banks Special Intermediaries in Late Nineteenth Century America? / Commentary (1998) (1)
- Intermediaries in the Market for Technology (2011) (1)
- Insider lending: Vehicles for accumulating capital (1994) (1)
- United States and Canada (1988) (0)
- List of tables and figures (1985) (0)
- Insider lending: The decline of insider lending and the problem of determining creditworthiness (1994) (0)
- Doing Business with Strangers : Finance and Enterprise in the Preindustrial World (2015) (0)
- How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World. By Nathan Rosenberg and L. E. Birdzell, Jr. (New York: Basic Books, 1986. xii + 353 pp. $19.95.) (1987) (0)
- The Emergence of Industrial America: Strategic Factors in American Economic Growth Since 1870. By Peter George. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 242. $33.50 cloth, $10.95 paper (1983) (0)
- Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression Prepared for the NBER Conference on Corruption and Reform (2004) (0)
- Insider lending: Professionalization and specialization (1994) (0)
- A Portrait Cast in Steel: Buckeye International and Columbus, Ohio, 1881–1980. By Mansel G. Blackford. (Westport: Greenwood, 1982. xix + 255 pp. Illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographic essay, and index. $29.95.) (1983) (0)
- The Market for Technology and the Organization of Invention in U.S. History (2021) (0)
- Commentary on "Were Banks Special Intermediaries in Late Nineteenth Century America?" (1998) (0)
- Front Matter ("Table of Contents") (2021) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- In Memoriam: Ken Sokoloff (2007) (0)
- Business History from the Microeconomic Perspective (1995) (0)
- Comment: Extending the Demand-Side Turn Productively (2006) (0)
- Human Capital and Institutions: In Memoriam: Kenneth L. Sokoloff (2009) (0)
- Long-term change in the organiz (2016) (0)
- chairs or discussants at the 1996 Economic History Association meetings. (2016) (0)
- 3. The Dissociation of Incorporation and Regulation in the Progressive Era and the New Deal (2017) (0)
- Power and Property within the Firm (2008) (0)
- Insider lending: Plate section (1994) (0)
- SESSION 7A: TECHNOLOGY AND BUSINESS HISTORY (2001) (0)
- Insider lending: Conclusion (1994) (0)
- Report of the Scientific Council January 2011 (2011) (0)
- Introduction: The Battle over the Surplus from Innovation (2021) (0)
- Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century. By Walter Licht. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 328. $27.50 (1984) (0)
- Strictly Business: An Impersonal History of the Morgan Banks@@@The Morgans: Private International Bankers, 1854-1913. (1988) (0)
- The Geography of Invention in the (2016) (0)
- Banking in the American South from the Age of Jackson to Reconstruction . By Larry Schweikart. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. xiv + 367 pp. Tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $35.00. (1988) (0)
- The great merger movement in American business, 1895–1904: What changed? The impact of consolidations on competitive behavior (1985) (0)
- Insider lending: Insider lending and Jacksonian hostility toward banks (1994) (0)
- Taking Counterfactual History Seriously (2011) (0)
- Product differentiation, mass production, and the urge to merge: competitive strategies and collusion in the late nineteenth century (1985) (0)
- Views on U.S. Economic and Business History: Molding the Mixed Enterprise Economy . Edited by Jack Blicksilver. (Atlanta: Georgia State University, Business Publishing Division, 1985. xii + 559 pp. $18.95.) (1986) (0)
- Do Entrepreneurs Want Control? And Should They Get What They Want? A Historical and Theoretical Exploration (2023) (0)
- A History of American Business. By Keith L. Bryant Jr., and Henry C. Dethloff. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1983. Pp. x + 374. $15.95 (1983) (0)
- Building the Empire State: Political Economy in the Early Republic by Brian Phillips Murphy (review) (2017) (0)
- World War I and the Restructuring of International Business (2020) (0)
- America's Business. By James Oliver Robertson. New York: Hill and Wang, 1985. Pp. x, 277. $17.95 (1985) (0)
- Antitrust and Voting Trusts in Illinois: Rethinking the Role of State Corporation Law in Competition Policy (2018) (0)
- Shawmut: 150 Years of Banking, 1836–1986. By Asa S. Knowles. Boston: Houghton Miffin Co., 1986. Pp. xx, 517. $19.95 (1987) (0)
- Insurance-Mortgage Company Connection (1995) (0)
- In this volume, several prominent business historians and management scholars contribute essays on the organizational challenges of generating and sustaining innovation. Each essay engages the ideas of economist (2010) (0)
- In this volume, several prominent business historians and management scholars contribute essays on the organizational challenges of generating and sustaining innovation. Each essay engages the ideas of economist (2010) (0)
- The Rise of Institutional Mortgage Lending in Early Nineteenth-Century New Haven (2014) (0)
- Enterprising Elite: The Boston Associates and the World They Made. By Dalzell Robert F. Jr, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. Pp. xviii, 298. $27.50 (1988) (0)
- Ores to Metals, The Rocky Mountain Smelting Industry. By James E. Fell Jr Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1980. Pp. xi, 341. $21.50 (1981) (0)
- Renewing Unilever: Transformation and Tradition (review) (2006) (0)
- MERGERS AND THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS (2016) (0)
- 'Business Organization in the Long Run: Private Limited Companies Rule!' (2006) (0)
- Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression Draft of November 16 , 2004 (2005) (0)
- Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy (2008) (0)
- Civil Society , and the Roots of Development (2017) (0)
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