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Working Papers

2023

1. History of Women Faculty in Economics
   University of California at Berkeley, Center for Studies in Higher Education, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley

Journal Articles

2023

1. Report of the Task Force on Outreach to High School and Undergraduate Students in Economics
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113, 842-49

2017

2. Forging on-campus connections to enhance undergraduate student reasoning, writing, and research skills
   The Journal of Economic Education, 2017, 48, (4), 317-326
3. THE RISE OF SERVICES, DEINDUSTRIALIZATION, AND THE LENGTH OF ECONOMIC RECOVERY
   Economic Inquiry, 2017, 55, (4), 1625-1647 View citations (8)

2016

4. Explaining "In the Aggregate" Concepts with Clickers
   Journal of Economics Teaching, 2016, 1, (2), 71-90

2015

5. The Undergraduate Origins of PhD Economists: The Berkeley Experience
   The Journal of Economic Education, 2015, 46, (2), 174-188

2011

6. Buying Power: A History of Consumer Activism in America. ByLawrence B. Glickman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. xix + 403 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. Cloth, $45.00. ISBN: 978-0-226-29865-8
   Business History Review, 2011, 85, (3), 624-627

2001

7. It's in the Cards: Consumer Credit and the American Experience. By Lloyd Klein. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. 1999. Pp. xii, 155. $55.00
   The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (2), 561-562

2000

8. United States and Canada - Financing the American Dream: A Cultural History of Consumer Credit. By Lendol Calder. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 377. $29.95
   The Journal of Economic History, 2000, 60, (1), 301-303

1999

9. Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing. By Pamela Walker Laird. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Pp. 479. $35.95
   The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (3), 830-831
10. Avoiding Default: The Role of Credit in the Consumption Collapse of 1930
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999, 114, (1), 319-335 View citations (79)
11. United States and Canada - Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century. By Robert E. WeemsJr. New York and London: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. 193. $45.00, cloth; $18.98, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (2), 539-540

1998

12. When Your Word Is Not Enough: Race, Collateral, and Household Credit
    The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (2), 408-431 View citations (7)

1995

13. The United States in the Twentieth Century: Markets. Edited by Grahame Thompson. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd., 1994. Pp. viii, 296. £12.99
    The Journal of Economic History, 1995, 55, (2), 447-448

1994

14. Pursuing Happiness: American Consumers in the Twentieth Century. By Stanley Lebergott. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii, 188. $24.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1994, 54, (2), 491-492

1993

15. Franchising in America: The Development of a Business Method, 1840–1980. By Thomas S. Dicke · Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992. 204 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $32.50, ISBN 0-8078-2041-5; paper, $12.95, ISBN 0-8078-4378-4
    Business History Review, 1993, 67, (1), 157-159

1991

16. The Credit Card Industry: A History. By Lewis Mandell. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990, Pp. xxiv, 176. $26.95, cloth; $12.95, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 1991, 51, (3), 743-744

1990

17. Demand for consumer durable goods in 20th century America
    Explorations in Economic History, 1990, 27, (3), 322-349 View citations (3)

1989

18. Business and Religion in the American 1920s. By Rolf Lundén. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press Inc., 1988. Pp. xiii, 204. $37.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1989, 49, (4), 1062-1063
19. Credit as a Production-Smoothing Device: The Case of Automobiles, 1913–1938
    The Journal of Economic History, 1989, 49, (2), 377-391 View citations (5)

1987

20. Advertising the American Dream: Making Way for Modernity, 1920–1940. By Roland Marchand. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 448. $27.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (4), 1062-1063
21. Advertising, Consumer Credit, and the “Consumer Durables Revolution” of the 1920s
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (2), 489-491 View citations (2)

1983

22. Fertility and the Standard of Living in Early Modern England: in Consideration of Wrigley and Schofield
    The Journal of Economic History, 1983, 43, (1), 71-77 View citations (1)

Chapters

2023

1. Promoting gender diversity in Introductory Microeconomics
   Chapter 12 in Teaching Principles of Microeconomics, 2023, pp 166-178