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Homepage:	https://gavin-wright.humsci.stanford.edu/
Phone:	6507233837
Workplace:	Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University, (more information at EDIRC) Department of Economics, Stanford University, (more information at EDIRC)

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Working Papers

2021

1. Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
   Also in Working Papers, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Policy Studies. (2021) View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2024) View citations (2) (2024)

2020

2. Voting Rights, Deindustrialization, and Republican Ascendancy in the South
   Working Papers Series, Institute for New Economic Thinking View citations (1)

2010

3. The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers of Gary R. Saxonhouse (Description and Table of Contents)
   Working Papers, Research Seminar in International Economics, University of Michigan

2009

4. Introduction and Overview to Volumes I and II, The Japanese Economy in Retrospect: Selected Papers by Gary R. Saxonhouse
   Working Papers, Research Seminar in International Economics, University of Michigan
5. The New Deal and the Modernization of the South
   Discussion Papers, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

2008

6. Historical Foundations of American Technology
   Economics Program Working Papers, The Conference Board, Economics Program

2005

7. Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics: An Inquiry into the Economic History of “Our Ignorance”
   Macroeconomics, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (12)
   Also in Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics (1999) View citations (56)
8. General Purpose Technologies and Productivity Surges: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution
   Economic History, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (14)

2002

9. Exorcizing the Resource Curse: Minerals as a Knowledge Industry, Past and Present
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (20)

2001

10. Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918-1947
    Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    Also in Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research (1998)
    See also Journal Article Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 19181947, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (2003) View citations (4) (2003)

2000

11. The Role of Nationhood in the Economic Development of the USA
    Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics

1999

12. General Purpose Technologies and Surges in Productivity: Historical Reflections on the Future of the ICT Revolution
    Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (56)
    Also in Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (20)

1997

13. Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon
    Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Chapter Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (1999) View citations (10) (1999)

1995

14. The origins of American resource abundance
    Research Memorandum, Maastricht University, Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) View citations (2)

1974

15. Safety-First, Gambling, and the Subsistence Farmer
    Miscellaneous Series, Pennsylvania State University View citations (2)

Undated

16. Slavery and American Agricultural History
    Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (6)
17. The Economics of Civil Rights
    Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations (2)

Journal Articles

2024

1. Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA
   American Economic Review, 2024, 114, (6), 1540-75 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Local Economic and Political Effects of Trade Deals: Evidence from NAFTA, NBER Working Papers (2021) View citations (9) (2021)

2022

2. Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2022, 36, (2), 123-48 View citations (2)

2020

3. Slavery and Anglo‐American capitalism revisited
   Economic History Review, 2020, 73, (2), 353-383 View citations (4)

2017

4. The Century’s Giant: An Obituary of Economist Kenneth Arrow
   Challenge, 2017, 60, (3), 287-293

2016

5. The Color Factor: The Economics of African-American Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century South. By Howard Bodenhorn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp. xiv, 320. $39.95, cloth
   The Journal of Economic History, 2016, 76, (4), 1259-1261
6. Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. By Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. xx + 398 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, references, appendixes, notes, index. Cloth, $35.00. ISBN: 978-0-691-17049-7
   Business History Review, 2016, 90, (4), 774-777

2015

7. Nathan Rosenberg (22 November 1927–24 August 2015)
   The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2015, 26, (4), 685-685

2014

8. Legacies of the War on Poverty. Edited by Martha J. Bailey and Sheldon Danziger. New York: Russell Sage Foundation (The National Poverty Series on Poverty and Public Policy). 2013. Pp. xii, 309. $39.95, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2014, 74, (2), 637-638

2011

9. Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation. By Edward B. Barbier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Pp. xviii, 748. $105.00, hardcover; $48.00, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2011, 71, (4), 1126-1127

2010

10. National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms: The Globalization of Cotton Spinning, 1878–1933
    The Journal of Economic History, 2010, 70, (3), 535-566 View citations (11)

2009

11. John Majewski. Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. xiii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-0-8078-3251-6, $31.96 (cloth)
    Enterprise & Society, 2009, 10, (4), 851-853
12. The Race Between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. vi, 488. $39.95, cloth
    The Journal of Economic History, 2009, 69, (2), 604-606

2005

13. Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush
    Explorations in Economic History, 2005, 42, (2), 155-183 View citations (35)

2004

14. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. Edited by Joel Mokyr, Editor in Chief. Five Volumes. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 2,800. $695
    The Journal of Economic History, 2004, 64, (4), 1157-1159
15. WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: The Myth of the Resource Curse
    Challenge, 2004, 47, (2), 6-38 View citations (57)

2003

16. Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 19181947
    Journal of Labor Economics, 2003, 21, (3), 493-532 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Arbitraging a Discriminatory Labor Market: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918-1947, Working Papers (2001) View citations (1) (2001)

2001

17. GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century. By Robert J. Steinfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 329. $59.95, cloth; $22.95, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (3), 865-866
18. Reflections on One Kind of Freedom and the Southern Economy
    Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38, (1), 40-47 View citations (1)
19. SESSION 5A: PRODUCTIVITY
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (2), 523-523

2000

20. Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s. By Pete Daniel. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press for Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 2000. Pp. xii, 378. $45.00, cloth; $19.95, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (4), 1166-1167 View citations (1)

1999

21. The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (2), 267-289 View citations (25)
22. United States and Canada - Region, Race, and Cities: Interpreting the Urban South. By David Goldfield. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. Pp. 309. $37.50, cloth; $16.95, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (1), 229-230

1998

23. “Fear God and Walk Humbly”: The Agricultural Journal of James Mallory, 1843–1877. Edited by Grady McWhiney, Warner O. MooreJr., and Robert F. Pace. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 687. $49.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (1), 282-283

1997

24. Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1997, 6, (2), 203-45 View citations (129)
25. Towards a More Historical Approach to Technological Change
    Economic Journal, 1997, 107, (444), 1560-66 View citations (13)

1993

26. American Economic Growth and Standards of Living before the Civil War. Edited byRobert E. Gallman and John Joseph Wallis · Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1992. viii + 396 pp. Tables, charts, notes, bibliography, and index. $70.00. ISBN 0226-27945-6
    Business History Review, 1993, 67, (2), 306-307

1992

27. International Competition and Strategic Response in the Textile Industries since 1870. Edited byMary B. Rose · London: Frank Cass, 1991. 194 pp. Tables, notes, and index. $32.00. ISBN 0-7146-3412-3
    Business History Review, 1992, 66, (4), 814-816
28. The Rise and Fall of American Technological Leadership: The Postwar Era in Historical Perspective
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1992, 30, (4), 1931-64 View citations (128)

1991

29. Understanding the Gender Gap: A Review Article
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1991, 29, (3), 1153-63 View citations (1)

1990

30. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Edited by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. Pp. xxi, 1634. $59.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1990, 50, (1), 215-217
31. The Origins of American Industrial Success, 1879-1940
    American Economic Review, 1990, 80, (4), 651-68 View citations (87)

1988

32. The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865–1925. By David Montgomery. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Pp. xii, 494. $27.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (2), 501-503

1987

33. Rural Worlds Lost: The American South, 1920–1960. By Jack Temple Kirby. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. xix, 390. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (3), 851-852
34. Stubborn mules and vertical integration: the disappearing constraint?
    Economic History Review, 1987, 40, (1), 87-94 View citations (6)
35. The Economic Revolution in the American South
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1987, 1, (1), 161-78 View citations (28)

1986

36. Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy. Edited by Thavolia Glymph and John J. Kushma. (College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 1985. x + 119 pp. $17.50.)
    Business History Review, 1986, 60, (3), 499-501
37. New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp. Edited by Robert H. Abzug and Stephen E. Maizlish. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1986. Pp. ix, 206. $19.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (4), 1064-1065

1984

38. Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism. By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. Pp. xxii, 469. $29.95 cloth, $10.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (2), 631-632
39. New Evidence on the Stubborn English Mule and the Cotton Industry, 1878-1920
    Economic History Review, 1984, 37, (4), 507-519 View citations (13)
40. Rethinking the Postbellum Southern Political Economy - Mill and Town in South Carolina 1880–1920. By David L. Carlton. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. xii + 313 pp. $32.50.) - Miners, Millhands, and Mountaineers: Industrialization of the Appalachian South, 1880–1930. By Ronald D. Eller. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982 xxvi + 272 pp. $23.50.) - Patronage and Poverty in the Tobacco South: Lousa County, Virginia, 1860–1900. By Crandall A. Shifflett. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1982. xvii + 159 pp. $12.00.) - The Reshaping of Plantation Society: the Natchez District, 1860–1880. By Michael Wayne. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. xii + 226 pp. $22.50.)
    Business History Review, 1984, 58, (3), 409-416

1983

41. Night work as a labor market phenomenon: Southern textiles in the interwar period
    Explorations in Economic History, 1983, 20, (4), 331-350 View citations (2)

1982

42. Recovery and Redistribution Under the Nira. By Michael M. Weinstein. Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1980. Pp. xv + 171. $36.50
    Business History Review, 1982, 56, (3), 453-454
43. The Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936–1980. By James C. Cobb. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. xii, 293. $16.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1982, 42, (4), 969-970

1981

44. Black Migration in America: A Special Demographic History. By Daniel M. Johnson and Rex R. Campbell. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1981. Pp. viii, 190. $16.75 cloth, $8.95 paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1981, 41, (4), 927-928
45. Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles, 1880–1930
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1981, 96, (4), 605-629 View citations (7)
46. Prosperity Road: The New Deal, Tobacco, and North Carolina. By Anthony J. Badger. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xviii + 295. $20.00
    Business History Review, 1981, 55, (2), 278-279

1979

47. Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles before 1880
    The Journal of Economic History, 1979, 39, (3), 655-680 View citations (23)
48. Freedom and the Southern economy
    Explorations in Economic History, 1979, 16, (1), 90-108 View citations (3)
49. The Efficiency of Slavery: Another Interpretation
    American Economic Review, 1979, 69, (1), 219-26 View citations (12)
50. World Demand for Cotton during the Nineteenth Century: Reply
    The Journal of Economic History, 1979, 39, (4), 1023-1024 View citations (2)

1977

51. Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century: A reply
    Explorations in Economic History, 1977, 14, (2), 183-195 View citations (3)

1976

52. Populist Vanguard: A History of the Southern Farmers' Alliance. By Robert C. McMathJr, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1975. Pp. 221. - The Improbable Era: The South Since World War II. By Charles P. Roland. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1975. Pp. 228. $11.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1976, 36, (4), 981-982
53. Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607–1972. By John T. Schlebecker. Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1975. Pp. x + 342. $12.95
    Business History Review, 1976, 50, (2), 233-233

1975

54. Cotton, Corn and Risk in the Nineteenth Century
    The Journal of Economic History, 1975, 35, (3), 526-551 View citations (7)
55. Slavery and the cotton boom
    Explorations in Economic History, 1975, 12, (4), 439-451 View citations (4)

1974

56. Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South
    The Journal of Economic History, 1974, 34, (3), 610-635 View citations (17)
57. Dissertation Comments
    The Journal of Economic History, 1974, 34, (1), 304-312
58. The Political Economy of New Deal Spending: An Econometric Analysis
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1974, 56, (1), 30-38 View citations (165)

1973

59. Comment on Papers by Reid, Ransom and Sutch, and Higgs
    The Journal of Economic History, 1973, 33, (1), 170-176
60. New and Old Views on the Economics of Slavery
    The Journal of Economic History, 1973, 33, (2), 452-466 View citations (2)
61. The Slave Community: Plantation Life in the Ante-Bellum South. By John W. Blassingame. New York, Oxford University Press, 1972. Pp. xv + 262. $7.95
    Business History Review, 1973, 47, (3), 386-388

1972

62. The Effects of Pre-Civil War Territorial Expansion on the Price of Slaves
    Journal of Political Economy, 1972, 80, (6), 1188-1202 View citations (4)
63. The Reinterpretation of American Economic History. Edited by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman. New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Pp. 494
    The Journal of Economic History, 1972, 32, (2), 566-569

1971

64. An Econometric Study of Cotton Production and Trade, 1830-1860
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1971, 53, (2), 111-20 View citations (9)

Books

2013

1. Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South
   Economics Books, Harvard University Press View citations (31)

2007

2. Natural Resources: Neither Curse nor Destiny
   IDB Publications (Books), Inter-American Development Bank View citations (68)

Edited books

2006

1. The Historical Statistics of the United States 5 Volume Hardback Set
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (63)

Chapters

2024

1. The Antebellum US Economy
   Springer

1999

2. Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon
   A chapter in Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries, 1999, pp 295-332 View citations (10)
   See also Working Paper Can a Nation Learn? American Technology as a Network Phenomenon, Stanford University, Department of Economics (1997) View citations (1) (1997)