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CURRICULUM VITAE - ALEXANDER J. FIELD

Current Position: Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 95053-0385 Phone: (408) 554-4348 Fax: (408) 554-2331 email: [email protected]

1. Education:

a) Institution Field Degree Date

University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California Economics Ph.D. 12/14/74

London School of Economics London, England Economics M.Sc. Econ. 8/03/71

Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts Economics A.B. m.c.1. 6/11/70

b) Dissertation Title: Educational Reform and Manufacturing Development in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts

2. Academic Appointments:

Santa Clara University Chair, Dept. of Econ. 1988-93; 2013-14 Santa Clara, CA Dean, Leavey School of Business and Administration, (Acting), 1996-97 Associate Dean, Leavey School of Business and Administration, 1993-96 Member, Board of Trustees, 1988-91 Academic Vice President (Acting), 1986-87 Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics, 1992-present Professor of Economics, 1988 – Associate Professor, 1982 – 1988

Princeton University Princeton, NJ Visiting Lecturer, 1980

Institute for Advanced Study Member, School of Social Science, 1979-80 Princeton, NJ

Stanford University Visiting Prof., Soc. Sci. Hist. Inst. 1997-98 Stanford. CA Visiting Professor of Economics, 1993 Assistant Professor of Economics, 1974-82

University of California, Berkeley Visiting Professor of Economics, 1992 Berkeley, CA Teaching Assistant, 1974

3. Courses Taught: American Economic History European Economic History Twentieth Century U.S. Economic History Macroeconomics (Intermediate and MBA) History of Economic Thought Economics of Technological Change Evolution of the Modern Business Enterprise Game Theory and Human Behavior

4. Other Academic Experience: a) Editorial / Executive Economic History Association Executive Director, 2004-2012 National Science Foundation Economics Panel, 2006-2007 Journal of Economic Literature Associate Editor, 1981-98; 1999- 2004 Journal of Economic History Editorial Board, 2001-04 Research in Economic History Editor, 1996-2010 Explorations in Economic History Editorial Board, 1983-89 Historical Methods Editorial Board, 1988-91 Cliometrica Editorial Board, 2006- Journal of Bioeconomics Editorial Board, 2005- All UC Group in Economic History Chair, Program Committee, 1998 Conference at Santa Clara Economic History Association Co-chair Program Committee, 1991

1 b) Refereeing: American Economic Review American Economic Review: Insights Business History Review Cliometrica Economics and Philosophy Economic Journal Economic History Review European Rev. of Econ. History. Explorations in Economic History The Independent Review Journal of Bioeconomics Journal of Econ. Behavior/Org. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control Journal of Economic History Journal of Evolutionary Economics Journal of Institutional Economics Journal of Urban History Journal of Political Economy Journal of Macroeconomics Journal of Money, Credit, Banking Quarterly Journal of Economics Research in Economic History Social Science History The Historian Theory and Psychology National Science Foundation Netherlands Organization for Scientific Resesarch Cambridge University Press MIT Press Oxford University Press Pearson Prentice Hall, Inc. Princeton University Press University of Chicago Press University of Utah Press W. W. Norton, Inc. Yale University Press

c) Foreign Languages French: (fluent) German: conversational

2 5. Academic Honors, Fellowships, and Grants: Fellow, Cliometric Society, 2014 Omicron Delta Epsilon, 2014 Leavey Impact Award for Research, Santa Clara University, 2014 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 2013-2014 Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Book Prize, Economic History Association, 2012 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award in the Social Sciences, 2012 Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the Economics category National Science Foundation Economics Panel, 2006-2007 Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award in the Social Sciences, 2003 University Award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship, 2000 Visiting Professor, Social Science History Institute, Stanford Univ., 1997- 98 Faculty Senate Professor, Santa Clara University, 1997-98 Dean's Recognition Award for Service, 1995-96 National Science Foundation Grant, 9/1/89 - 2/29/92 NASA-Ames Research Consortium Grant, 10/1/90 - 6/30/91 JCPenney Research Professorship, Santa Clara University, 1988 Dean's Recognition Award for Service, 1987 Dean's Recognition Award for Research, 1984 Beta Gamma Sigma, 1987 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., 1979-80 Mellon Foundation Junior Faculty Leave Fellowship, Stanford University, 1977 CES/DAAD Postdoctoral Research Grant, 1976 Spencer Foundation Educational Research Grant, Stanford University 1975 Nevins Prize (Awarded annually by Columbia University for the best dissertation in American economic history completed during the previous year), 1975 Chancellor's Patent Fund Research Grant, U.C. Berkeley, 1973 Dean's Special Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley 1973-74 National Science Foundation Fellow, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73 Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1970-71 Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard University, 1970

6. Scholarly Work (chronologically by category):

a) Books:

Field, Alexander J. 2021. Do You Believe in Magic? The Supply Side Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for World War II. New Haven: Yale University Press (in progress)

Field, Alexander J. 2011. A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth. New Haven: Yale University Press. Paperback edition, August 2012. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the Economics category. Alice Hanson Jones Biennial Book Award 2012. Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award, 2012.

Field, Alexander J. 2001. Altruistically Inclined? The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Paperback edition, 2004; Chinese edition, 2006. Alpha Sigma Nu National Book Award, 2003.

Field, Alexander J. ed., 1987. The Future of Economic History. Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff, reprinted with a new introduction as The Future of Economics. 1995. New Brunswick: Transactions Publishers.

Field, Alexander J. 1989. Educational Reform and Manufacturing Development in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts. New York: Garland. Reprint of 1974 Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, with a new introduction. Allan Nevins Prize, 1975.

b) Articles

Note: You can access many of my papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=347743

Field, Alexander J. 2019. “Historical Measures of Economic Output.” Handbook of Cliometrics, eds. Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 1-23; available at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-642-40458- 0_38-1.pdf

Field, Alexander J. 2018. “Manufacturing Productivity and US Economic Growth.” In Louis P. Cain, Price Fishback, and Paul Rhode, eds., Oxford Handbook of American Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 213-34.

Field, Alexander J. 2017. “Ideology, Economic Policy, and Economic History: Cohen and DeLong’s Concrete Economics.” Journal of Economic Literature 55 (December): 1526-55.

Field, Alexander J. 2017. “The Saving & Loan Insolvencies and the Costs of Financial Crisis.” Research in Economic History 33: 65-113.

Field, Alexander J. 2016. Review Essay on Jack Rasmus, “Systematic Fragility in the Global Economy.” In European Financial Review (April/May): 55-58; available at http://www.europeanfinancialreview.com/?p=5890

Field, Alexander J. 2016. “Altruism.” In Sage Encyclopedia of Theory in Psychology (Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA), pp. 22-24.

4 Field, Alexander J. 2014. “Capital in the Twenty-First Century: A Review Essay.” Journal of Economic History 74 (September): 916-920.

Field, Alexander J. 2014. “The Interwar Housing Cycle in the Light of 2001-2011: A Comparative Historical Approach.” in Eugene N. White, Ken Snowden and Price Fishback, eds., Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, pp. 39-90.

Field, Alexander J. 2014. “Prosociality and the Military.” Journal of Bioeconomics 16 (July): 129-164. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10818-013-9155-7/fulltext.html

Field, Alexander J. 2014. “Schelling, Irrationality, and the Event that Didn’t Occur.” Games 5 (1): 53-89. http://www.mdpi.com/2073- 4336/5/1/53.

Field, Alexander J. 2013. “Economic Growth and Recovery in the United States, 1929-1941.” in Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon, eds. The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 358-394.

Field, Alexander J. 2013. “John Kenneth Galbraith.” In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available online at http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15- 01338.html?a=1&n=Galbraith&ia=-at&ib=-bib&d=10&ss=0&q=1

Field, Alexander J. 2013. “Mellon Banks.” In Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Field, Alexander J. 2012. “The Adversity/Hysteresis Effect: Depression Era Productivity Growth in the U.S. Railroad Sector” in Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, eds., The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, for the National Bureau of Economic Research, pp. 579-606.

Field, Alexander J. 2010. “The Procyclical Behavior of Total Factor Productivity in the United States, 1890-2004.” Journal of Economic History 70 (June): 326-50.

Field, Alexander J. 2009. “The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Current Crisis.” Challenge 52 (July-August): 94-105.

Field, Alexander J. 2009. “U.S. Economic Growth in the Gilded Age.” Journal of Macroeconomics 31 (March): 173-90.

Field, Alexander J. 2008. “'Biological and Cultural Group Selection: Comments on Landa's paper.” Journal of Bioeconomics 10 (December): 287-90.

Field, Alexander J. 2008. “Why Multilevel Selection Matters.” Journal of Bioeconomics 10 (December): 203-38.

Field, Alexander J. 2008. “Economic History” in Steven Durlauf and Lawrence Blume, eds. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, New York: Macmillan.

Field, Alexander J. 2008. “The Impact of the Second World War on U.S. Productivity Growth.” Economic History Review 61 (August): 672-94.

Field, Alexander J. 2008. “Productivity”, in Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, David Henderson, ed. Liberty Fund, pp. 417-19.

Field, Alexander J. 2007. “Beyond Foraging: Evolutionary Theory, Institutional Innovation, and Economic Performance.” Journal of Institutional Economics 3 (December): 265-291.

Field, Alexander J. 2007. “The Origins of U.S. Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Golden Age.” Cliometrica 1 (April): 63-90.

Field, Alexander J. 2007. “The Equipment Hypothesis and U.S. Economic Growth.” Explorations in Economic History 43 (January): 43-58:

Field, Alexander J. 2006. “Technical Change and U.S. Economic Growth: The Interwar Period and the 1990s” in Paul Rhode and Gianni Toniolo, eds. The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long Run Perspective Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 89-117.

Field, Alexander J. 2006. “Douglass North” in David A. Clark, ed., The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp. 423-426

Field, Alexander J. 2006. “Group Selection and Behavioral Economics.” In Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics: Foundations and Developments. ed. Morris Altman. New York: M. E. Sharpe, pp. 165- 182.

Field, Alexander J. 2006. “Technological Change and U.S. Economic Growth in the Interwar Years.” Journal of Economic History 66 (March): 203-36.

6 Field, Alexander J. 2006. “Communications,” in Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennium edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, volume 4, pp. 977-98.

Field, Alexander J. 2005. “Review article on “Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small Scale Societies.” Quarterly Review of Biology 80 (December): 453-459.

Field, Alexander J. 2004. “Altruism,” in Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, New York: Macmillan.

Field, Alexander J. 2003. “The Most Technologically Progressive Decade of the Century,” American Economic Review 93 (September): 1399-1414.

Field, Alexander J. 2003. “Economics, Biology, and Culture: Hodgson on History,” Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, v. 22, ed. W. Samuels (Amsterdam: Elsevier), pp. 367-392 (review essay).

Field, Alexander J. 2003. “Comment on Bergstrom,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 17 (Spring): 209-210.

Field, Alexander J. 2003. “Mirowski’s Machine Dreams,” European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 10 (Winter): 611-622.

Field, Alexander J. 2003. “Land Ordinances”, in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, ed. Joel Mokyr (Oxford: Oxford University Press), v. 3, pp. 270-71.

Field, Alexander J. 2003. “The Telegraph,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, ed. Joel Mokyr (Oxford: Oxford University Press), v. 5, pp. 90-92.

Field, Alexander J. 2001. “The Regulatory History of a New Technology: The Electromagnetic Telegraph.” Michigan State University Law Review 2: 245-253.

Field, Alexander J. 2001. “Bankruptcy, Debt, and the Macroeconomy, 1919- 1946” in Research in Economic History 20: 99-133.

Field, Alexander J. 2001. “Not What it Used to Be: The Cambridge Economic History of The United States, vols. II and III,” Journal of Economic History 61: (September): 806-818 (review essay).

Field, Alexander J. 2000. “The Role of the Telegraph in Concentrating U.S. Stock Markets” in ASX Perspectives 1, pp. 9-13.

Field, Alexander J. 1999. “Comment on Paper by Gavin Wright, ‘Can A Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon’” in Peter Temin, Daniel Raff, and Naomi Lamoreaux, Learning by Doing in Firms, Markets, and Nations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), pp. 326-31.

Field, Alexander J. 1998. “The Telegraphic Transmission of Financial Asset Prices and Orders to Trade: Implications for Economic Growth, Trading Volume, and Securities Market Regulation” in Research in Economic History 18 (Greenwich: JAI Press), pp. 145-184.

Field, Alexander J. 1998. “Critical Issues Relating to Impacts of Information Technology: Areas for Future Research and Discussion,” in Fostering Research on the Economic and Social Impacts of Information Technology, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council, (Washington: National Academy Press), pp. 139-141.

Field, Alexander J. 1998. “Sunk Costs, Water Over the Dam, and Other Liquid Parables,” in K. Dennis, ed., Rationality in Economics: Alternative Perspectives (Boston: Kluwer-Nijhoff), pp. 123-36.

Field, Alexander J. 1996. "The Relative Productivity of American Distribution, 1869-1992" in Research in Economic History, vol. 16 (JAI Press), pp. 1-37.

Field, Alexander J. 1996. “Nathan Rosenberg” in Warren Samuels, ed., American Economists of the Late Twentieth Century (Edward Elgar), pp. 238-258.

Field, Alexander J. 1994. "Land Abundance, Interest-Profit Rates and Nineteenth Century American and British Technology," (reprint of 1983b) in Peter Temin, ed. Industrialization in North America, vol. 6 (Blackwell), pp. 483-510.

Field, Alexander J. 1994. "French Optical Telegraphy, 1793-1855: Hardware, Software, Administration," Technology and Culture 35 (April 1994): 315- 47.

Field, Alexander J. 1994. "Douglass North," entry in Handbook on Institutional and Evolutionary Economics (Edward Elgar) vol. 2, pp. 134- 38.

Field, Alexander J. 1994. "Game Theory and Institutions," entry in Handbook on Institutional and Evolutionary Economics (Edward Elgar) vol. I, pp. 271-76.

Field, Alexander J. 1993. "An Interview with Moses Abramovitz," The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society 8 (July 1993), reprinted in Reflections on the Cliometric Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians, eds John S. Lyons and Louis P. Cain and Samuel Williamson. London, Routledge, 2008, pp. 51-63.

Field, Alexander J. 1992. "Uncontrolled Land Development and the Duration of the Depression in the United States," Journal of Economic History 52 (December): 785-805.

Field, Alexander J. 1992. "The Magnetic Telegraph, Price and Quantity Data, and the New Management of Capital" Journal of Economic History 52 (June): 401-13.

Field, Alexander J. 1991. "Do Legal Systems Matter?" Explorations in Economic History 28 (January): 1-35.

Field, Alexander J. 1988. "Let Us Now Praise Exogenous Variables: A Review Essay on Economic History and the Modern Economist," Historical Methods 21 (Spring 1988): 89-94.

Field, Alexander J. 1987. "Modern Business Enterprise as a Capital-Saving Innovation," Journal of Economic History 47 (June): 473-85.

Field, Alexander J. 1987. "The Future of Economic History," in Alexander J. Field, ed., The Future of Economic History. Boston: Kluwer Nijhoff, 1987, pp. 1-41.

Field, Alexander J. 1985. "On the Unimportance of Machinery," Explorations in Economic History 22 (October): 378-401.

Field, Alexander J. 1984. "Microeconomics, Norms, and Rationality," Economic Development and Cultural Change 32 (July): 683-711.

Field, Alexander J. 1984 "A New Interpretation of the Onset of the Great Depression," Journal of Economic History 44 (June): 489-98.

Field, Alexander J. 1984. "Asset Exchanges and the Transactions Demand for Money, 1919-1929," American Economic Review 74 (March): 43-59.

Field, Alexander J. 1983. "Malthus's Macroeconomic and Methodological Thought," History of European Ideas 4 (Spring 1983): 135-49.

9 Field, Alexander J. 1983. "Land Abundance, Interest-Profit Rates and Nineteenth Century American and British Technology," Journal of Economic History 43 (June): 405-31.

Field, Alexander J. 1982. "Land Abundance, Factor Returns and Nineteenth Century American and British Technology: A Ricardian Linear Production Model Retrospective," in Lennart Jorberg and Nathan Rosenberg, eds. Technical Change, Employment and Investment (Lund: Lund University Press), pp. 65-82.

Field, Alexander J. 1981. "Whither Quantitative History: A Review of Some Recent Work in the Economic and Social History of Education," Historical Methods 14 (Spring): 85-95.

Field, Alexander J. 1981. "The Problem with Neoclassical Institutional Economics: A Critique with Special Reference to the North-Thomas Model of pre-1500 Europe," Explorations in Economic History 18 (April): 174-98.

Field, Alexander J. 1980. "The Relative Stability of German and American Industrial Growth, 1880-1913: A Comparative Analysis," in Wachstumszyklen der deutschen Wirtschaft im 19. u. 20. Jahrhundert, eds. W.H. Schroder and R. Spree (Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta,), pp. 208-32.

Field, Alexander J. 1980. "Industrialization and Skill Intensity: The Case of Massachusetts," Journal of Human Resources 15 (Spring): 149-75.

Field, Alexander J. 1979. "On the Explanation of Rules Using Rational Choice Models," Journal of Economic Issues 13 (March): 49-72.

Field, Alexander J. 1979. "Economic and Demographic Determinants of Educational Commitment, Massachusetts, 1855," Journal of Economic History 39 (June): 435-59.

Field, Alexander J. 1979. "Occupational Structure, Dissent and Educational Commitment, Lancashire, 1841," Research in Economic History 4: 235-87.

Field, Alexander J. 1978. "Sectoral Shift in Antebellum Massachusetts: A Reconsideration," Explorations in Economic History 15 (April): 146-71.

Field, Alexander J. 1978. "Education and Social Programs: Workshop Report," Journal of Economic History 38 (March): 258-61.

Field, Alexander J. 1976. "Educational Expansion in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts: Human Capital Formation or Structural Reinforcement?"

10 Harvard Educational Review 46 (November): 521-52.

Field, Alexander J. 1976. “Educational Reform and Manufacturing Development in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts," Journal of Economic History 36 (March): 263-66.

b) Working Papers

Field, Alexander J. 2019. “The U.S. Synthetic Rubber Industry and Declining Productivity During Mobilization for the Second World War”

Field, Alexander J. 2019. “Mobilization for War and its Impact on Productivity Growth in U.S. Manufacturing, 1941-48”

Field, Alexander J. 2019. “War Mobilization and its Impact on Patenting in the United States.”

Field, Alexander J. 2018. “The Impact of World War II on the Growth of US Potential Output.”

Field, Alexander J. 2017. “The Bounds of Argument and the Impact of RBC Models in Macroeconomic History”

Field, Alexander J. 2016. “The Taylor Rule in the 1920s”

Field, Alexander J. 2014. “What can we learn from the Carousel of Progress?”

Field, Alexander J. 2009. “Should Capital Input Data Receive a Utilization Adjustment?”

Field, Alexander J. 2005. “The Slaughterhouse, Information Technology, and the Structure of U.S. Manufacturing in 1890.”

Field, Alexander J. 1980. “The Treatise on Money after Fifty Years.”

c) Book Reviews (abbreviated citation of book followed by full citation of review):

Field, Alexander J. 2019. Review of Carl Benedikt Frey, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor and Power in the Age of Automation Princeton: Princeton University Press, on Eh.Net,

11 available at http://eh.net/book_reviews/the-technology-trap-capital- labor-and-power-in-the-age-of-automation/

Field, Alexander J. 2017. Review of Pat Hudson and Keith Tribe. The Contradictions of Capital in the Twenty-First Century: The Piketty Opportunity, in Business History Review 91 (Spring): 180-183.

Field, Alexander J. 2017. Review of Marc Levinson, An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy, on Eh.Net, available at http://eh.net/book_reviews/an- extraordinary-time-the-end-of-the-postwar-boom-and-the-return-of- the-ordinary-economy/

Field, Alexander J. 2016. Review of Michael H. Turk. The Idea of History in Constructing Economics, in Journal of Economic History 76 (December): 1273-74.

Field, Alexander J. 2016. Review of Stephen Broadberry, Bruce M.S. Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton, Bas van Leeuwen, British Economic Growth: 1270-1870 in Journal of Economic History 76 (March): 236-238.

Field, Alexander J. 2015. Review of Mark Hendrickson, American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression in American Historical Review 120 (December): 1914.

Field, Alexander J. 2014. Review of Jim Lacey, Keep from All Thoughtful Men: How U.S. Economists Won World War II, in Enterprise and Society 15 (1): 176-78.

Field, Alexander J. 2013. Review of Mathew Boulton: Enterprising Industrialist of the Enlightenment, in Journal of Economic History 73 (September): 874-76.

Field, Alexander J. 2013. Review of Hugh Rockoff, America’s Economic Way of War: War and the US Economy from the Spanish American War to the Persian Gulf War in the Journal of American History 99 (4):1273- 74.

Field, Alexander J. 2011. Review of Herbert Gintis, The Bounds of Reason; Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences in The Journal of Economic History 71 (March): 256-258.

12 Field, Alexander J. 2010. Review of Marc Hauser, Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong in The Journal of Bioeconomics 12 (July): 173-177.

Field, Alexander J. 2007. Review of Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World (2007) on Eh.Net http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1282

Field, Alexander J. 2007. Review of Stephen Broadberry, Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850-2000 (2006), on Eh.Net. http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1229

Field, Alexander J. 2005. Review of Robert D. Atkinson, The Past and Future of America’s Economy: Long Waves of Innovation that Power Cycles of Growth (2004) in The Independent Review 10 (Fall).

Field, Alexander J. 2005. Review of Douglass North, Understanding the Process of Economic Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, on Eh.Net, http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0899

Field, Alexander J. 2004. Review of Paul Seabright, The Company of Strangers (2004) in Journal of Economic History 64 (September 2004): 921-23.

Field, Alexander J. 2003. Review of Armand Mattellart, translated by Liz Carey-Libbrecht and James A. Cohen, Networking the World, 1794-2000 (2000) in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 25 (July – September): 84.

Field, Alexander J. 2003. Review of Gene Smiley, Rethinking the Great Depression: A New View of its Causes and Consequences (2002) in Journal of Economic History 63 (March): 288-89.

Field, Alexander J. 2003. Review of William T. Baumol, The Free Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism (2002) in The Independent Review (Spring): 623-26.

Field, Alexander J. 2002. Review of Haim Ofek. Second Nature: Economic Origins of Human Evolution (2001) in Journal of Economic History 62: (September): 922-24.

Field, Alexander J. 2002. Review of Chris Freeman and Francisco Louca, As Time Goes By (2001) in Journal of Economic History 62: (June): 634-36.

13 Field, Alexander J. 2001. Review of Zvi Griliches, R&D, Education, and Productivity: A Retrospective (2000) in Journal of Economic History 61: (June): 577-578.

Field, Alexander J. 2001. Review of Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior in Journal of Economic Literature 39 (March): 132-134.

Field, Alexander J. 1999. Review of Maxine Berg and Kristine Bruland, eds., Technological Revolutions in Europe: Historical Perspectives in Journal of Economic History 60 (September): 810-11.

Field, Alexander J. 1999. Review of Graeme Donald Snooks, The Ephemeral Civilization; Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution (1998) in Journal of Economic Literature 37 (June): 696-698.

Field, Alexander J. 1998. Review of Deirdre McCloskey, The Vices of Economists: The Virtues of the Bourgeosie (1996) in Journal of Economic Literature 36 (March): 228-230.

Field, Alexander J. 1997. Review of Gail Radford, Modern Housing in America: Policy Studies in the New Deal Era (1996) in Journal of Economic History 57 (September): 757-58.

Field, Alexander J. 1996. Review of Gerald J. Holzmann and Bjorn Pehrson, The Early History of Data Networks in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 18 (1996): 77.

Field, Alexander J. 1996. Review of Naomi Lamoreaux and Daniel M. G. Raff, eds., Coordination and Information: Historical Perspectives on the Organization of Enterprise (1995) in Journal of Economic Literature 34 (March): 174-76.

Field, Alexander J. 1994. Review of Jerry Z. Muller, Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society (1993) in Journal of Economic Literature 32 (June): 683-85.

Field, Alexander J. 1994. Review of Barry Eichengreen, Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939 (1992) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 24 (Spring): 175-77.

Field, Alexander J. 1993. Review of Herbert Hovenkamp, Enterprise and American Law 1836-1937 (1991) in Journal of Economic Literature 31 (March): 273-74.

14 Field, Alexander J. 1992. Review of William Parker, Europe, America and the Wider World (1991) in Journal of Economic History 52 (December): 983- 85.

Field, Alexander J. 1991. Review of Douglass C. North, Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance (1990) in Journal of Economic History 51 (December): 999-1001.

Field, Alexander J. 1990. Review of Philip Mirowski, Against Mechanism: Protecting Economics From Science (1988) in Journal of Economic History 49 (March): 247-50.

Field, Alexander J. 1990. Review of Peter Mathias and Sidney Pollard, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of Europe vol. 8 (1989) in Journal of Economic History 50 (June): 459-62.

Field, Alexander J. 1989. Review of A. Allan Schmid, Property, Power and Public Choice (1987) in Land Economics 65 (May): 186-90.

Field, Alexander J. 1988. Review of Jean Baechler, John A. Hall and Michael Mann, eds., Europe and the Rise of Capitalism (1988), in Journal of Economic History 48 (December): 921-22.

Field, Alexander J. 1988. Review of D. C. Coleman and Peter Mathias, eds. Enterprise and History: Essays in Honour of Charles Wilson (1984) and Neil McKendrick and R. B. Outhwaite, Business Life and Public Policy: Essays in Honour of D. C. Coleman (1986) in Journal of Economic History 37 (March): 235-37.

Field, Alexander J. 1986. Review of David John Hogan, Class and Reform (1985) in Journal of Economic History 46 (December): 1075-77.

Field, Alexander J. 1986. Review of Maris Vinovskis, The Origins of Public High Schools (1986) in Journal of Economic History 46 (September): 859- 61.

Field, Alexander J. 1986. Review of William Parker, Europe, America and the Wider World (1984) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16 (Winter): 508-10.

Field, Alexander J. 1984. Review of Donald Barnett and Louis Schorsch, Steel: Upheaval in a Basic Industry (1983) in Journal of Economic Literature 21 (September 1984): 1150-51.

15 Field, Alexander J. 1984. Review of Michael B. Katz, Michael J. Doucet, and Mark J. Stern, The Social Organization of Early Industrial Capitalism (1982) in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 14 (Winter): 699-701.

Field, Alexander J. 1983. Review of Patricia Cohen, A Calculating People (1982) in Journal of Economic History 44 (December): 1031-32.

Field, Alexander J. 1983. Review of Samuel Hollander, The Economics of David Ricardo (1980) in Comparative Studies in Society and History 25 (January): 188-90.

Field, Alexander J. 1982. Review of Richard Posner, The Economics of Justice (1981) in Journal of Economic Literature 19 (March): 73-75.

Field, Alexander J. 1982. Review of Lee Soltow and Edward Stevens, The Rise of Literacy in the United States (1981) in Journal of Economic History 42 (September): 720-21.

Field, Alexander J. 1982. Review of Carl Dahlman, The Open Field System and Beyond (1980) in Comparative Studies in Society and History 24 (January 1982): 178-80.

Field, Alexander J. 1981. Review of Sidney Pollard, ed., Region und Industrialisierung (1980) in Journal of Economic History 41 (September): 676-77.

Field, Alexander J. 1981. Review of Maxine Berg, The Machinery Question and the Making of Political Economy (1980) in Journal of Economic History 41 (March): 252-3.

Field, Alexander J. 1980. Review of J. Ron Stanfield, Economic Thought and Social Change (1979) in Journal of Economic History 40 (September): 680- 81.

Field, Alexander J. 1980. Review of Karen Iversen Vaughn, John Locke: Economist and Social Scientist (1980) and Andrew S. Skinner, A System of Social Science: Papers Relating to Adam Smith (1979) in Journal of Economic History 40 (June): 448-50.

Field, Alexander J. 1979. Review of Richard Edwards, Contested Terrain (1979), in Journal of Economic History 39 (December): 1073-75.

Field, Alexander J. 1979. Review of Phyllis Deane, The Evolution of Economic Ideas (1978) in Journal of Economic History 39 (June): 606-07.

16 Field, Alexander J. 1978. Review of Barry Gordon, Political Economy in Parliament (1976) in Journal of Economic History 38 (September): 773-75.

Field, Alexander J. 1977. Review of Paul Uselding, ed., Research in Economic History vol. 1 (1976) in Technology and Culture (October): 744-46.

Field, Alexander J. 1977. Reviews of Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America (1976) in Journal of Human Resources 12 (Winter): 275-277 and Journal of Economic History 37 (June): 491-92.

Field, Alexander J. 1977. Review of James Axtell, The School Upon a Hill (1974) and E. G. West, Education and the Industrial Revolution (1975) in Business History Review 51 (Spring): 115-18.

Field, Alexander J. 1976. Review of Peter McClelland, Causal Explanation and Model Building (1975) in Business History Review (Spring): 96-99.

7. Commissioned Research:

Field, Alexander J. 1991. "The Impact of the NASA-Ames Research Center on Bay Area Economies and Educational Institutions"; NASA-Ames Research Consortium Project NCA2-569 (June).

Field, Alexander J. 1978. "Productivity and Effectiveness in Educational Research and Development," in Proceedings: National Conference on Productivity and Effectiveness in Educational Research and Development (Washington: Council for Educational Research and Development, 1978), pp. 38-50.

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