Robert Whaples
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Robert Whaples's Degrees
- PhD Economics University of Pennsylvania
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robert M. Whaples is a professor of economics at Wake Forest University. He is also the editor of The Independent Review. Education Whaples graduated from the University of Maryland in 1983 with B.A.'s in economics and history, and received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. thesis, "The Shortening of the American Work Week: An Economic and Historical Analysis", won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Economic History Association.
Robert Whaples's Published Works
Published Works
- Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History (2013) (112)
- Where Is There Consensus Among American Economic Historians? The Results of a Survey on Forty Propositions (1995) (77)
- A Quantitative History of the Journal of Economc History and the Cliometric Revolution (1991) (60)
- Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics (1992) (56)
- Are Disagreements Among Male and Female Economists Marginal at Best?: A Survey of AEA Members and Their Views on Economics and Economic Policy (2014) (56)
- The Policy Views of American Economic Association Members: The Results of a New Survey (2009) (45)
- The Shortening of the American Work Week: An Economic and Historical Analysis of Its Context, Causes, and Consequences (1991) (41)
- Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870–1939 (1998) (38)
- Changes in Attitudes among College Economics Students about the Fairness of the Market. (1995) (35)
- Is there consensus among American labor economists? Survey results on forty propositions (1996) (35)
- Winning the Eight-Hour Day, 1909–1919 (1990) (30)
- THE SUPPLY AND DEMAND OF ECONOMIC HISTORY: RECENT TRENDS IN THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY (2002) (25)
- Fraternalism, Paternalism, the Family, and the Market: Insurance a Century Ago (1991) (22)
- Public Choice Economics: Where is there Consensus? (2005) (21)
- The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History (2013) (20)
- Public choice interpretations of American economic history (2000) (19)
- Economics and the Law: Where is There Consensus? (1999) (17)
- Fear and Lathing in the Michigan Furniture Industry: Employee-Based Discrimination a Century Ago (1995) (15)
- The shortening of the American working week: an economic and historical analysis of its context, causes and consequences (1994) (14)
- Do Economists Agree on Anything? Yes! (2006) (13)
- The Costs of Critical Commentary in Economics Journals (2006) (13)
- The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and Our Gamble over Earth's Future (2014) (11)
- Political business cycles before the Great Depression (1996) (10)
- Time to Eliminate The Penny From The U.S. Coinage System: New Evidence (2007) (9)
- Gastonia 1929: The Story of the Loray Mill Strike (1996) (8)
- Working Wives and Dual-Earner Families (1993) (8)
- Is Economic History a Neglected Field of Study? (2010) (7)
- Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America (2006) (7)
- Historical Perspectives on the American Economy (1995) (7)
- Are Public Choice Scholars Different? (2003) (7)
- Culture, Gender, Race, and U.S. Labor History (1993) (7)
- A Feathered River across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction (2015) (6)
- The Economics of Pope Francis: An Introduction (2017) (6)
- The Economic Crisis in Retrospect: Explanations by Great Economists (2013) (6)
- Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality Since 1700 by Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson (review) (2018) (5)
- Law and Economics and Tort Law: A Survey of Scholarly Opinion (1998) (5)
- Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-century Social Thought (2005) (4)
- Economic History and Entrepreneurship (2012) (4)
- Historical perspectives on the American economy : selected readings (1995) (4)
- The Urbanization Deflator of the GNP, 1919-1984: Comment (1991) (3)
- Economic History and Cliometrics (2012) (3)
- Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England (2000) (3)
- What Should Lawyers Know about Economics (1998) (3)
- If I Had a Hammer: Mancur Olson as an Economic Historian (2003) (2)
- Consensus and disagreement among American economic historians (1996) (1)
- Collapse? the "Dismal" Science Doesn't Think So: Economists' Views of the Future (2006) (1)
- Coal: A Human History (2009) (1)
- Cotton's Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation (2002) (1)
- Skeptical Thoughts on a Taxpayer-Funded Basic Income Guarantee (2015) (1)
- Ten Economic Lessons from the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (2014) (1)
- The Road to Crony Capitalism: An Introduction (2019) (1)
- The South since the Civil War (1995) (1)
- The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Strike of 1914–1915: Fink, Gary M.: Ithaca, NY: ILR Press, 192 pp., Publication Date: August 1993 (1994) (1)
- Were Andrew Jackson's Policies "Good for the Economy"? (2014) (1)
- Gambling in America: Costs and Benefits (2009) (1)
- Introduction to instructors (1995) (1)
- Work Without End: Abandoning Shorter Hours for the Right to Work . By Benjamin Kline Hunnicutt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988. Pp. x, 404. $34.95. (1989) (1)
- The Economic Crisis in Retrospect (2013) (1)
- Hard at Work in Factories and Mines: The Economics of Child Labor during the British Industrial Revolution. By Carolyn Tuttle. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1999. ix + 308 pp. Bibliography, illustrations, index. Paper, $63.00. ISBN 0-813-33698-8 (2001) (1)
- The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880–2000. By Thomas A. Stapleford (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2009 ) 440 pp. $90.00 cloth $29.99 paper (2010) (0)
- Jerold J. Duquette. Regulating the National Pastime: Baseball and Antitrust. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1999. xviii + 162 pp. ISBN 0-275-96535-X, $59.95 (2000) (0)
- Women in the economy (1995) (0)
- Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: The Great Depression (1995) (0)
- Insights for Today's Trying Economic Times (2013) (0)
- Study guide Microeconomics, second edition, Jeffrey M. Perloff (2001) (0)
- Symposium on Successful Presidential Economic Policies (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Openness to creative destruction: Sustaining innovative dynamism, by Diamond, A. M. (2020) (0)
- Appendix: Basics of regression (1995) (0)
- Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II (review) (2004) (0)
- The Cost of Living in America: A Political History of Economic Statistics, 1880–2000 (review) (2010) (0)
- The Economic Future: An Introduction (2016) (0)
- Workers' Paradox: The Republican Origins of New Deal Labor Policy, 1886–1935. By Ruth O'Brien. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. pp. xiii, 313. $39.95, cloth; $17.95, paper (1999) (0)
- Beyond Labor's Veil: The Culture of the Knights of Labor: Weir, Robeft E.: University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 343 pp., Publication Date: April 1996 (1997) (0)
- Constructing Brotherhood: Class, Gender, and Fraternalism. By Mary Ann Clawson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Pp. ix, 270. $29.95 (1992) (0)
- The Pox of Liberty: How the Constitution Left Americans Rich, Free, and Prone to Infection. By Werner Troesken. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015. Pp. x, 237. $40.00.) (2017) (0)
- The Final Act (2019) (0)
- Egalitarianism: Fair and Equal? New Thinking on Egalitarianism (2017) (0)
- The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity (2016) (0)
- Charles D. Chamberlain. Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South during World War II. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003. xi + 288 pp. ISBN 0-8203-2429-9, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8203-2443-4, $19.95 (paper) (2003) (0)
- Book Review: The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism (1995) (0)
- Immigration Reconsidered: History, Sociology, and Politics: Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia, ed.: New York: Oxford University Press 342 pp., Publication Date: November 1990 (1992) (0)
- The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960-1981 (review) (2003) (0)
- Stage to Studio: Musicians and the Sound Revolution, 1890–1950. By James P. Kraft. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 255. $35.00 (1997) (0)
- Introduction to students (1995) (0)
- The Standard of Living Among Polish- and Slovak-Americans: Evidence from Fraternal Insurance Records, 1880-1970 (2019) (0)
- Understanding World Economic History (2013) (0)
- Rethinking Pension Reform/What You Need to Know about the Economics of Growing Old (But Were Afraid to Ask): A Provocative Reference Guide to the Economics of Aging (2010) (0)
- Old Age and the Search for Security: An American Social History. By Carole Haber and Brian Gratton. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994. Pp. xv, 230. $35.00, cloth; $14.95, paper (1994) (0)
- Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: The rise of American industrial might (1995) (0)
- Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: Slavery and servitude (1995) (0)
- Charles P. Korr. The End of Baseball as We Knew It: The Players Union, 1960–1981. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xviii + 336 pp. ISBN 0-252-02752-3, $34.95 (2003) (0)
- Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840–1950. By Walter Licht. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Pp. xiii, 317. $39.95 (1993) (0)
- Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians. Edited by John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson. New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. xxiv, 491. $144.00, cloth (2010) (0)
- General and Miscellaneous (1994) (0)
- Becoming Europe: Economic Decline, Culture, and How America Can Avoid a European Future (2014) (0)
- Book Review: Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (1993) (0)
- Robert F. Burk. Much More Than a Game: Players, Owners, and American Baseball since 1921. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. xi + 372 pp. ISBN 0-8078-2592-1, $45.00 (cloth); 0-8078-4908-1, $19.95 (paper) (2002) (0)
- Changing the Guard: Private Prisons and the Control of Crime (2009) (0)
- Erratum (2001) (0)
- Using Historical State Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports in Teaching (1992) (0)
- Book Review: The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power and Politics of World Trade (2007) (0)
- Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: Colonial and early national economy (1995) (0)
- Is Economic History a Neglected Field of Study?: Final Thoughts (2010) (0)
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