Gavin Wright

William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History

Gavin Wright

Contact Info:

write@stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~write
Page in Stanford Directory

Phone: 650-723-3837

Office: Landau 329

Office hours: Monday 3:30-5 pm

Curriculum Vitae

Interests

  • Research: American economic history, the U.S. South, technology, natural resources and economic development
  • Current Research: The economics of the Civil Rights revolution in the American South
  • Teaching: American economic history, graduate and undergraduate, introductory economics, social science history workshop
  • Professional Affiliations:

    AEA, Economic History Association, Cliometrics Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Recent Publications

(1) “Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush” (with Karen Clay), Explorations in Economic History, 2005

(2) “Resource-Based Growth Past and Present” (with Jesse Czelusta), in Natural Resources: Neither Curse Nor Destiny (World Bank) Stanford University Press, 2007

(3) “Slavery and American Economic Development,” LSU Press, 2006

List of Stanford Working Papers

Current Courses

Winter
Spring

Education

Ph.D., Yale University; B.A., Swarthmore College