Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics

Martha White Paas Wadsworth A. Williams Professor of Economics Carleton College (507) 645-8627 [email protected]

Education Ph.D., Economics, Bryn Mawr College, 1979 The Institute for Social and Economic History, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, Germany, 1969-70 B.A., Economics, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, 1967

Research Fields Macroeconomics, European Economic History, Health Care Economics

Professional Experience Professor of Economics, Carleton College, 1975-present Lecturer in Economic History, University of Maryland, European Division, 1970-72

Administrative Experience Chair, Department of Economics, Carleton College, 1987-88,1989-91 Minnesota Economics Association, Board of Directors, 1985-87, 1991-92 Founder and Director, Off-Campus Seminar in Economics Nuremberg, Germany, 1980 King’s College, Cambridge, UK, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 President, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Chapter, Carleton College, 1999-2000

Honors and Awards Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, University of Jena, 1996-97 Fulbright Senior Research Scholar, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 1992-93 Member of High Table, King’s College, Cambridge, 1988, 1992 German Academic Exchange Fellowship, 1969-70, 1983

Membership in Professional Organizations American Economics Association Economic History Association Economic History Society

Consultancies London Conchord Ensemble, UK The College Board, Princeton, New Jersey Academy for Educational Development, Washington, D.C Sweet Briar College, Virginia Global Team for Local Initiatives, Ethiopia Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Bonn, Germany Selected Publications

Books:

The Kipper and Wipper Inflation, 1619-23: An Economic History with Contemporary German Broadsheets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012.

Population Change, Labor Supply and Agriculture in Augsburg, 1480-1618: A Study of Early Economic-Demographic Interactions. New York: Arno Press, 1981

Articles in Books:

“Wie können wir wissen, was sie wussten? Deutsche Flugblätter und die Kipper und Wipperinflation ( 1620-1626) “ in Arbeitskreis Bild Druck Papier, Tagungsband Ravenna, 2006, ed. Wolfgang Brückner. Münster: Waxmann Verlag, 2007. pp. 37-42.

“Experiential Learning Abroad”, in Reflections on Learning as Teachers, Northfield, Minnesota: College City Publications, 2004. pp. 178-85.

“Die Grundlage der wirtschaftlichen Prosperität Augsburgs in der Frühen Neuzeit” in Augsburg, die Bilderfabrik Europas. Augsburg: Wißner Verlag, 2000. pp.3-9.

“Nürnbergs Wirtschaft im 17. Jahrhundert”, in Der Franken Rom: Nürnbergs Blütezeit in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 1995. pp. 46-61.

Articles:

“Why Can’t America Deliver on Health Care Reform?”, with James R. Krause, M.D., Medical Economics, March 10, 2012, pp.109-11.

“Where Does the Time Go?” with D. Haunsperger, K. Galotti, and M. Cass. Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly, 23 (2002): pp. 91-94.

“Family Labor Strategies in Early Modern Swabia”, Journal of Family History, 17 (1992) : 233-240; reprinted in The European Peasant Family and Society: Historical Studies, ed. Richard Rudolph. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 1993. pp. 146- 53.

“Demographic Change and Market Structure in Early Modern Germany”, The Structure of Internal Trade, 15th-19th Century, eds J. Chartres and S. Gyimesi. Bern: Ninth International Economic History Congress, 1986. pp.4-13.

“The Economics of Population Change and Agricultural Response in Fifteenth Century Germany”, Fifteenth Century Studies, 6 (1983): 187-204.

Courses Taught Principles of Microeconomics Principles of Macroeconomics Intermediate Macroeconomics European Economic History American Economic History History of Economic Thought International Trade Health Care Economics The Economics of the Arts and Culture Economics of Population The German Economy British Economic History The Writings of John Maynard Keynes Keynes and the Bloomsbury Group The Political Economy of Adam Smith and Keynes Economic History of Renaissance Italy and 17th Century Holland Protoindustrialization Economists as Social Critics in the Twentieth Century The Economics of Transition: Europe Unifying Catastrophes and the Worlds They Made The Black Death