North America
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Inequality in China, India and America: Causes and Consequences
Apr 5, 2013 | 05:15—06:45
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Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and its Influence on Market Liberal Policy Norms, c. 1968-2000
This research project investigates the influence of economic doctrines on policy norms in recent decades through analysis of the history of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012, 2013
Origins of the Graduate Economics Canon in the United States
This research project explores and documents the development of graduate economics training in the leading centers of doctoral education in the United States.
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Grantee paper
Chartbook of Economic Inequality: 25 Countries 1911-2010
Sep 2012
The purpose of this Chartbook is to present a summary of evidence about changes in economic inequality – primarily income, earnings, and wealth – for 25 countries covering a 100 year period from 1911 to 2010.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012
English Agricultural Markets and the State: The Corn Returns, 1685-1864
This research project offers a radical reconsideration of the centrality of the Corn Returns to the development of classical liberal political economy and shows how much the Corn Laws enriched agrarian interests and how their repeal represented a boost to British manufacturing.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012
Protocols of War and the Driving Force of Modeling Strategy
This research project examines how US military needs during World War II and the Cold War steered engineers and applied mathematicians to an economic way of thinking about scarce resources, including limited computational resources, and how economists subsequently incorporated that into mathematics.
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Years granted:
2011, 2012
Emergency Preservation of Federal Bankruptcy Court Records, 1940-2000
This research project documents long-run trends in personal bankruptcy, with special emphasis on the use of the bankruptcy law at the local level and among women.