Professor of Economics

Economics, CBA 357
P.O. Box 880489
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0404, USA
Phone: (402) 472-4995
Fax: (402) 472-9700
E-mail:

Joined the college in 1997.

Education:

Ph.D. Harvard University M.A. Harvard University B.A. Grinnell College

Research Interests:

economics, history, demography, and natural resources of the Great Plains issues in higher education

Teaching Interests:

introductory economics; issues in the Great Plains; US economic history

Published in the following:

Change, American Economic Review, Journal of Economic History, Academe, Organization, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Journal of Human Resources

Awards:

Cole Prize; German Marshall Fund Fellow; Research Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars; ranked among the top 100 Economists, Journal of Economic Education (1989)

Books Published:

Rights at Work (Brookings, 1993); The Forgotten Link, with Paolo Garonna (Rowman and Littlefield, 1991); Contested Terrain (Basic Books, 1979); Understanding Capitalism, with Samuel Bowles and Frank Roosevelt (Oxford University Press, 2005); [six other books] Chairman, Board of Directors, The Grassland Foundation, Lincoln, NE