Price V Fishback

Interests

Teaching

Economic History, Political Economy, Managerial Economics, Research Methods in Economics

Research

American Economic History, Labor Economics, Political Economy, Law and Economics

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Books

• Fishback, P. V., Cain, L., & Rhode, P. (2018). Oxford Handbook of Research in American Economic History. 2 volumes Edited by Louis Cain, Price Fishback, and Paul Rhode. Should be published in 2017 both in print and online. New York: Oxford University Press.
• White, E. N., Snowden, K., & Fishback, P. (2014). Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
• Fishback, P. V., Snowden, K., & Rose, J. (2013). Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (2007). A prelude to the welfare state: the origins of workers' compensation. University of Chicago Press.
• Fishback, P., Libecap, G., & Zajac, E. (2000). Public choice essays in honor of a maverick scholar: Gordon Tullock. Springer Science \& Business Media.

Chapters

• Fishback, P. V. (2020). “The Second World War in America: Spending, Deficits, Multipliers, and Sacrifice.”. In The Economics of the Second World War: Eighty Years On(pp 53-57). https://voxeu.org/content/new-ebook-economics-second-world-war-seventy-five-years: VoxEU.
• Fishback, P. V. (2015). The New Deal. In Oxford Handbook of Research in American Economic History. Edited by Louis Cain, Price Fishback, and Paul Rhode.. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Fishback, P. V. (2018). North America. In An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, edited by Matthias Blum and Christopher Colvin.. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
• Fishback, P. V. (2018). Two World Wars in American Economic History. In Oxford Handbook of Research in American Economic History. Edited by Louis Cain, Price Fishback, and Paul Rhode.(pp 391-418). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Fishback, P. V. (2018). Welfare Policy: The Safety Net in American Economic History. In Oxford Handbook of Research in American Economic History. Edited by Louis Cain, Price Fishback, and Paul Rhode.(pp 447-474). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Fishback, P. V., Cain, L., & Rhode, P. W. (2018). Introduction. In Oxford Handbook of Research in American Economic History. Edited by Louis Cain, Price Fishback, and Paul Rhode.(pp 1-52). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Fishback, P. V. (2015). “The Great Depression and the New Deal.”. In Handbook of Cliometrics. Springer Reference Library. Edited by Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert.(pp 537-562). New York:: Springer Verlag.
• Fishback, P. V. (2016). The Great Depression and the New Deal. In Handbook of Cliometrics(pp 537-562).
• Fishback, P. V. (2016). The United States and Canada. In A History of the Global Economy from 1500 to the Present. Edited by Joerg Baten and sponsored by the International Economic History Association.(pp 83-109). New York, USA Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Fishback, P. V. (2016). The United States and Canada. In A History of the Global Economy from 1500 to the Present(pp 83-109).
• Fishback, P. V., & Kollmann, T. (2014). “New Multi-City Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920-1940.”. In Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective. Edited by White, Eugene, Kenneth Snowden, and Price Fishback. National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Volume(pp 203-244). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
• Snowden, K., White, E. N., & Fishback, P. V. (2014). Introduction to" Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective". In Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective(pp 1--13). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
• Fishback, P. V. (2013). “Monetary and Fiscal Policy During the Great Depression.” Updated revision of paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 26(3) (Autumn 2010): 385-413.. In The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today, edited by Nicolas Crafts and Peter Fearon.(pp 258-289). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
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  Updated revision of paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. 26(3) (Autumn 2010): 385-413.
• Fishback, P. V. (2013). “The Microeconomics of the New Deal During the Great Depression.”. In Handbook of Major Events in Economic History, edited by Randal Parker and Robert Whaples.(pp 151-164.). London: Routledge Press.
• Fishback, P. V., & Wallis, J. J. (2013). “What Was New About the New Deal?”. In The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today, edited by Nicolas Crafts and Peter Fearon.(pp 290-327). Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
• Fishback, P. V., Troesken, W., Kollmann, T., Haines, M., Rhode, P. W., & Thomasson, M. (2011). Information and the impact of climate and weather on mortality rates during the Great Depression. In The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present(pp 131--167). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Fishback, P., & Nickless, P. (2011). Teaching american economic history. In International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics(pp 525-532). New York: Edward Elgar Publishing.
• Fox, J. F., Fishback, P. V., & Rhode, P. W. (2011). The Effects of Weather Shocks on Crop Prices in Unfettered Markets: The United States Prior to the Farm Programs, 1895-1932. In The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present(pp 99--130). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Fishback, P. V. (2006). The Irony of Reform. Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930?. In Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History(pp 285--318). University of Chicago Press.
• Wallis, J. J., Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (2006). Politics, Relief, and Reform. Roosevelt’s Efforts to Control Corruption and Political Manipulation during the New Deal. In Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History(pp 343--372). University of Chicago Press.
• Fishback, P., Libecap, G., & Zajac, E. (2000). Introduction: Public Choice Essays in Honor of a Maverick Scholar: Gordon Tullock. In Public Choice Essays in Honor of a Maverick Scholar: Gordon Tullock(pp 1--11). Springer.
• La Croix, S. J., & Fishback, P. (2000). MIGRATION, LABOR MARKET DYNAMICS, AND WAGE DIFFERENTIALS IN HAWAII’S SUGAR INDUSTRY, 1901-l 915. In Advances in Agricultural Economic History(pp 31--71).
• Kantor, S. E., & Fishback, P. V. (1994). Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers? Compensation: The Case of Missouri, 1911 to 1926. In The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy(pp 259--298). University of Chicago Press.

Journals/Publications

• Fishback, P. V., & Seltzer, A. (2021). The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968.. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 35(1), 73-96.
• Fishback, P. V. (2020). Presidential Address. “Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the 20th Century.”. Journal of Economic History, 80(2), 311-350.
• Fishback, P. V. (2020). “Social Insurance and Public Assistance in America in the 20th Century: Presidential Address for the Economic History Association.”. Journal of Economic History.
• Fishback, P. V., Rose, J., & Snowden, K. (2020). “Collateral damage: Foreclosures and new mortgage lending in the 1930s. Journal of Economic History, 80(3), 853-884.
• Fishback, P. V., Schaller, J., & Marquardt, K. (2020). “Local Economic Conditions and Fertility from the Great Depression Through the Great Recession.”. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 110, 236-240.
• Fishback, P. V. (2019). “Effects of New Deal Spending and the Downturns of the 1930s on Private Labor Markets in 1939/1940.”. Explorations in Economic History, 71(1), 25-54. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2018.11.003
• Fishback, P. V. (2018). “The Newest on the New Deal". Essays in Business and Economic History., 36(1), 1-22. doi:http://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/journal/article/view/425/374
• Fishback, P. V., & Jaremski, M. (2017). Rural Land Inequality and the Development of a New Credit System in the South after the Civil War, 1860-1900. Journal of Economic History, 78(1), 155-195. doi:doi: 10.1017/S0022050718000062
• Fishback, P. V., & Jaremski, M. (2018). “Rural Land Inequality and the Development of a New Credit System in the South after the Civil War, 1860-1930,” with Matthew Jaremski, 2013.. Journal of Economic History., 78(1), 155-195. doi:10.1017/S0022050718000062
• Fishback, P. V., & Shatnawi, D. (2018). The Impact of World War II on Female Workers.. Journal of Economic History, 78(2), 539-574.
• Fishback, P. V., & Shatnawi, D. (2018). The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing. Journal of Economic History, 78(2), 539-574.
• Fishback, P. V., Fleitas, S., & Snowden, K. (2018). Economic Crisis and the Demise of a Popular Contractual Form: Building and Loan Mortgage Contracts in the 1930s. Journal of Financial Intermediation, 36, 28-44.
• Fishback, P. V., Fleitas, S., & Snowden, K. (2018). Economic Crisis and the Demise of a Popular Contractual Form: Building & Loans in the 1930s. Journal of Financial Intermediation, 36(October), 28-44. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfi.2017.08.003
• Fishback, P. V. (2016). How Successful Was the New Deal?. Journal of Economic Literature., 55(4), 2017.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017). How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies. Journal of Economic Literature.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017). Long Term Empirical Trends Related to the Grand Bargain of Workers’ Compensation: A Comment on Spieler. Rutgers Law Review, 69(3), 1185-1212.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017). Summary by LuAnn Haley: The National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary. Lex and Verum.
• Fishback, P. V. (2015). “New Deal Funding: Estimates of Federal Grants and Loans Across States by Year, 1930-1940.” Research in Economic History.. Research in Economic History, 43-112.
• Fishback, P. V. (2015). “The Role of Southern Political Power in Ira Katznelson’s Fear Itself: What Can We Learn from Additional Sources? “. Labor History, 56(2), 213-220.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kachanovskaya, V. (2015). “The Multiplier for the States in the Great Depression.’. Journal of Economic History, 75(1), 125-162.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kitchens, C. (2015). “Flip the Switch: The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940.” With Carl Kitchens, 2015.. Journal of Economic History, 75(4), 1161-1195.
• Fishback, P. V. (2014). “Saving the Neighborhood: Complementary Insights from Housing Markets in the 1920s and 1930s.”. Arizona Law Review: The Syllabus. online, 56(3), 39-49.
• Fishback, P. V., & Jaworski, T. (2014). "Health on the Home Front: Infant Deaths and Industrial Accidents During Mobilization for World War II,”. Jahrbuch fuer Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Economic History Yearbook). Volume title, Kriegswirtschaft und ihre Folgen" (War Economy and its Consequences., 55(2), 15-30.
• Fishback, P. V., & Thomasson, M. (2014). “Hard Times in the Land of Plenty: The Effect on Income and Disability Later in Life for People Born During the Great Depression.". Explorations in Economic History, 54, 64-78.
• Depew, B., Fishback, P. V., & Rhode, P. W. (2013). New deal or no deal in the Cotton South: The effect of the AAA on the agricultural labor structure. Explorations in Economic History, 50(4), 466-486.
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  Abstract: The Agricultural Adjustment Act has often been held responsible for the rapid reduction of share tenants and sharecroppers (laborers paid shares of the crop) during the 1930s. However, this conclusion has come with limited empirical backing. We shed new light on the consequences of this New Deal policy by empirically testing the role that the AAA cotton reduction program had on the displacement of share tenants and sharecroppers in the Cotton South. The results suggest that the AAA played a significant role in the displacement of black and white sharecroppers and black managing tenants even though it was a violation of AAA contracts for landlords to displace these workers. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.
• Fishback, P., & Cullen, J. A. (2013). Second World War spending and local economic activity in US counties, 1939-58. Economic History Review, 66(4), 975-992.
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  Abstract: Studies of the development of local economies often point to large-scale Second World War military spending as a source of economic growth, even though spending declined sharply after demobilization. We examine the relationship between war spending per capita and the changes in economic activity in US counties between 1939 before the war and a period several years after the war. In the longer term counties receiving more war spending per capita during the war experienced greater population growth, but growth in per capita measures of economic activity showed little relationship with per capita war spending. © Economic History Society 2013.
• Kantor, S., Fishback, P. V., & Wallis, J. J. (2013). Did the new deal solidify the 1932 Democratic realignment?. Explorations in Economic History, 50(4), 620-633.
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  Abstract: The critical election of 1932 represented a turning point in the future electoral successes of the Democrats and Republicans for over three decades. This paper seeks to measure the importance of the New Deal in facilitating the Democrats' control of the federal government well into the 1960s. We test whether long-differences in the county-level electoral support for Democratic presidential candidates after the 1930s can be attributed to New Deal interventions into local economies. We also investigate more narrowly whether voters rewarded Roosevelt from 1932 to 1936 and from 1936 to 1940 for his efforts to stimulate depressed local economies. Our instrumental variable estimates indicate that increasing a county's per capita New Deal relief and public works spending from nothing to the sample mean ($145) would have increased the long-run support for the Democratic party by 2 to 2.5 percentage points. We further find that the long-run shift toward the Democratic party after 1928 was not a function of the Roosevelt landslide victory in 1932. Roosevelt's ability to win over voters during the 1936 and 1940 elections with New Deal spending, however, did matter for the long-term. © 2013 Elsevier Inc.
• Neumann, T. C., Taylor, J. E., & Fishback, P. (2013). Comparisons of weekly hours over the past century and the importance of work-sharing policies in the 1930s. American Economic Review Papers and PRoceedings, 103(3), 105-110.
• Neumann, T. C., Taylor, J. E., & Fishback, P. (2013). Comparisons of weekly hours over the past century and the importance of work-sharing policies in the 1930s. American Economic Review, 103(3), 105-110.
• Barreca, A. I., Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. (2012). Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s. Explorations in Economic History, 49(4), 381-398.
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  Abstract: The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was associated with a population shift in the United States in the 1930s. Evaluating the relationship between the AAA and the incidence of malaria can therefore offer important lessons regarding the broader consequences of demographic changes. Using a quasi-first difference model and a robust set of controls, we find a negative association between AAA expenditures and malaria death rates at the county level. Further, we find that the AAA was associated with increased out-migration of low-income groups from counties with high-risk malaria ecologies. These results suggest that the AAA-induced migration played an important role in the reduction of malaria. © 2012 Elsevier Inc.
• Fishback, P. V. (2012). Editors' notes. Journal of Economic History, 72(1), 252-260.
• Fishback, P. V. (2012). Relief during the great depression in australia and america. Australian Economic History Review, 52(3), 221-249.
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  Abstract: I compare and contrast relief efforts by governments in response to the extraordinary unemployment of the Great Depression in the US and Australia. The effectiveness of relief spending in America at the local level is discussed using recent studies estimating the relationship between relief spending and various demographic measures. I develop a new panel data set for the Australian states from 1929 through 1939. Increased income in manufacturing and rural production were associated with lower infant mortality rates and death rates and higher fertility rates. In contrast to the US experience, however, higher per capita relief spending was associated with lower birth rates. © 2012 The Author Australian Economic History Review © 2012 Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd and the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand.
• Stuckler, D., Meissner, C., Fishback, P., Basu, S., & McKee, M. (2012). Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: Evidence from US urban populations, 1929-1937. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66(5), 410-419.
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  PMID: 21441177;Abstract: Background: Previous research suggests that the Great Depression led to improvements in public health. However, these studies rely on highly aggregated national data (using fewer than 25 data points) and potentially biased measures of the Great Depression. The authors assess the effects of the Great Depression using city-level estimates of US mortality and an underlying measure of economic crisis, bank suspensions, at the state level. Methods: Cause-specific mortalities covering 114 US cities in 36 states between 1929 and 1937 were regressed against bank suspensions and income data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Database, using dynamic fixed-effects models and adjustments for potential confounding variables. Results: Reductions in all-cause mortalities were mainly attributable to declines in death rates owing to pneumonia (26.4% of total), flu (13.1% of total) and respiratory tuberculosis (11.2% of total), while death rates increased from heart disease (19.4% of total), cancer (8.1% of total) and diabetes (2.9%). Only heart disease can plausibly relate to the contemporaneous economic shocks. The authors found that a higher rate of bank suspensions was significantly associated with higher suicide rates (β=0.32, 95% CI 0.24 to 0.41) but lower death rates from motor-vehicle accidents (β=-0.18, 95% CI -0.29 to -0.07); no significant effects were observed for 30 other causes of death or with a time lag. Conclusion In contrast with existing research, the authors find that many of the changes in deaths from different causes during the Great Depression were unrelated to economic shocks. Further research is needed to understand the causes of the marked variations in mortality change across cities and states, including the effects of the New Deal and Prohibition.
• Fishback, P. V. (2011). Creating a Broader Context for Research on Coal Miners. Review Essay for three books. Reviews of Thomas G. Andrews. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Press, 2008; Leighton S. James. The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and south Wales, 1890-1926. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2008; and Ronald L. Lewis. Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Labour/Le Travail, 68(1), 139--150.
• Fishback, P. V. (2011). Editors' notes. Journal of Economic History, 71(1), 223-232.
• Fishback, P. V., Flores-Lagunes, A., Horrace, W. C., Kantor, S., & Treber, J. (2011). The influence of the Home Owners' loan corporation on housing markets during the 1930s. Review of Financial Studies, 24(6), 1782-1813.
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  Abstract: Problems with mortgage financing are widely considered to be a major cause of the recent financial meltdown. Several modern programs have been designed to mimic the Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) of the 1930s. We analyze the impact of the HOLC on the nonfarm rental and owned home markets for over 2,800 counties in the United States in the 1930s. In sparsely populated counties, where financial markets were not as well developed as in larger cities, the HOLC stimulated demand for owned housing more than it influenced supply. In rental markets the HOLC appears to have contributed to an increase in supply. © The Author 2011. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Society for Financial Studies. All rights reserved.
• Kollmann, T. M., & Fishback, P. V. (2011). The New Deal, race, and home ownership in the 1920s and 1930s. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 101(3), 366-370.
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  Abstract: Many federal government housing policies began during the New Deal of the 1930s. Many claim that minorities benefited less from these policies than whites. We estimate the relationships between policies in the 1920s and 1930s and black and white home ownership in farm and nonfarm settings using a pseudo-panel of repeated crosssections of households in 1920, 1930, and 1940 matched with policy measures in 460 state economic areas. The policies examined include FHA mortgage insurance, HOLC loan refinancing, state mortgage moratoria, farm loan programs, public housing, public works and relief, and payments to farmers to take land out of production. © 2011 AEA. The American Economic Association is hosted by Vanderbilt University.
• Boustan, L. P., Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. (2010). The effect of internal migration on local labor markets: American cities during the great depression. Journal of Labor Economics, 28(4), 719-746.
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  Abstract: The Great Depression offers a unique laboratory to investigate the causal impact of migration on local labor markets. We use variation in the generosity of New Deal programs and extreme weather events to instrument for migrant flows to and from U.S. cities. Inmigration had little effect on the hourly earnings of existing residents. Instead, in-migration prompted some residents to move away and others to lose weeks of work or access to relief jobs. For every 10 arrivals, we estimate that 1.9 residents moved out, 2.1 were prevented from finding a relief job, and 1.9 shifted from full-time to part-time work. © 2010 by The University of Chicago.
• Fishback, P. (2010). US Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the 1930s. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 26(3), 385--413.
• Fishback, P. V., Johnson, R. S., & Kantor, S. (2010). Striking at the roots of crime: The impact of welfare spending on crime during the great depression. Journal of Law and Economics, 53(4), 715-740.
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  Abstract: During the Great Depression contemporaries worried that people hit by hard times would resort to crime. President Franklin Roosevelt argued that the massive government relief efforts "struck at the roots of crime" by providing subsistence income to needy families. After constructing a panel data set for 81 large American cities for the years 1930-40, we estimate the effect of relief spending by all levels of government on crime rates. The analysis suggests that a 10 percent increase in relief spending during the 1930s reduced property crime by roughly 1.5 percent. By limiting the amount of relief recipients' free time, work relief may have been more effective than direct relief in reducing crime. More generally, our results indicate that social insurance, which tends to be understudied in economic analyses of crime, should be more explicitly and more carefully incorporated into the analysis of temporal and spatial variations in criminal activity. © 2010 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
• Fishback, P., Allen, S., Fox, J., & Livingston, B. (2010). A patchwork safety net: A survey of cliometric studies of income maintenance programs in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century. Journal of Economic Surveys, 24(5), 895-940.
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  Abstract: Social welfare programs in the USA are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the USA, we examine the variation in the safety net in the USA across states in the 20th century, the determinants of the variation and its impact on socioeconomic outcomes. The USA has always displayed substantial variation in the extent of the safety net because the features of most public social welfare programs have been and currently are determined by local and state governments, even after the federal government became involved in the 1930s. Differences across states persist strongly for typically a decade, although the persistence weakens with time, and there are some periods when federal intervention led to a re-ordering. The rankings of state benefits differ from program to program, and economic and political factors have different weights in determining benefit levels in panel data estimation of their effects. Variation in benefits across programs during the early 1900s had significant impact on labour markets, economic activity, family formation, death rates and crime. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
• Neumann, T. C., Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. (2010). The dynamics of relief spending and the private urban labor market during the New Deal. The Journal of Economic History, 70(01), 195--220.
• Stoian, A., & Fishback, P. (2010). Welfare spending and mortality rates for the elderly before the Social Security era. Explorations in Economic History, 47(1), 1--27.
• Fishback, P. V., Holmes, R., & Allen, S. (2009). Lifting the curse of dimensionality: measures of the states' labor legislation climate in the United States during the progressive era. Labor History, 50(3), 313--346.
• Fishback, P. V. (2008). Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John. E. Murray. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 313. $40.. Journal of Economic History, 68(01), 313--315.
• Fishback, P. V. (2008). The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. x, 464. $26.95.. Journal of Economic History, 68(01), 325--328.
• Fishback, P. V. (2008). The New Deal. The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Holmes, R., Fishback, P., & Allen, S. (2008). Measuring the Intensity of State Labor Regulation During the Progressive Era. Quantitative Economic History: The Good of Counting, edited by Joshua Rosenbloom. New York: Routledge, 119--145.
• Fishback, P. (2007). Government and the Economy. Price Fishback et al., Government and the American Economy: A New History, 1--37.
• Fishback, P. V., Haines, M. R., & Kantor, S. (2007). Births, deaths, and New Deal relief during the Great Depression. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 89(1), 1--14.
• Fishback, P. V., Horrace, W. C., & Kantor, S. (2006). The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression. Explorations in Economic History, 43(2), 179--222.
• Fishback, P. V. (2005). Price V. FishbackReview of Werner Troesken's water, race and disease2004MIT PressCambridge, MA0-262-20148-8pp. xvii, 251. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 35(6), 883--884.
• Fishback, P. V., Horrace, W. C., & Kantor, S. (2005). Did New Deal grant programs stimulate local economies? A study of Federal grants and retail sales during the Great Depression. The Journal of Economic History, 65(01), 36--71.
• Fishback, P. V. (2003). Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization. By Joshua L. Rosenbloom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 208. $20.00, paper.. The Journal of Economic History, 63(01), 286--288.
• Fishback, P. V., Kantor, S., & Wallis, J. J. (2003). Can the New Deal's three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis. Explorations in Economic History, 40(3), 278-307.
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  Abstract: We examine the importance of Roosevelt's "relief, recovery, and reform" motives to the distribution of New Deal funds across over 3000 US counties, program by program. The major relief programs most closely followed Roosevelt's three Rs. Other programs were tilted more in favor of areas with higher incomes. For all programs spending for political advantage in upcoming elections was a significant factor. Roosevelt's successful reelections were based on developing specific programs for a broad range of constituents, delivering on his stated goals, but also spending more at the margin for political purposes. © 2003 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
• Fishback, P. V. (2001). The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880--1990. By Dora Costa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 234. $40.00,\pounds 31.95, cloth; $19.00,\pounds 13.50, paper.. The Journal of Economic History, 61(01), 224--226.
• Fishback, P. V., Haines, M. R., & Kantor, S. (2001). The Impact of the New Deal on Black and White Infant Mortality in the South. Explorations in Economic History, 38(1), 93-122.
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  Abstract: The New Deal led to unprecedented involvement by the federal government in the provision of relief. Although New Deal officials argued that they sought to be nondiscriminatory in providing access to programs, various scholars have suggested that blacks received fewer benefits than whites. One method for testing the effectiveness of the New Deal at reaching households with low incomes is to examine its impact on infant mortality. In this paper we use county-level data from three subperiods during the 1930s to examine the relationship between several New Deal spending programs and black and white infant mortality in the South. Some New Deal programs contributed to a reduction in infant mortality, but other factors may have been strong contributors to a long-term secular decline in infant mortality. Meanwhile, some of the New Deal programs appear to have been nondiscriminatory or even more beneficial for blacks than for whites, while others appear to have had differential effects that favored whites. © 2001 Academic Press.
• Fishback, P. V., Haines, M. R., & Kantor, S. (2001). The impact of the New Deal on black and white infant mortality in the south. Explorations in Economic History, 38(1), 93--122.
• Fishback, P. (1999). Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 345. $35.00.. The Journal of Economic History, 59(03), 836--838.
• Fishback, P. V. (1999). Review of Couch, Jim; II, William F. Shughart, The Political Economy of the New Deal.
• Fishback, P. V. (1999). The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America. By Andrea Tone. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 264. $39.95.. The Journal of Economic History, 59(03), 833--835.
• Kim, S., & Fishback, P. V. (1999). The Impact of Institutional Change on Compensating Wage Differentials for Accident Risk: South Korea, 1984-1990. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 18(3), 231-248.
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  Abstract: Institutional change can lead to substantial changes in the size of compensating differentials for workplace accident risk. The South Korean labor market experienced two major institutional changes between 1984 and 1990. First, a relaxation of restrictions on Korean labor unions in 1987 led to a sharp jump in the extent of strike activity and bargaining rounds which was associated with a reduction in the size of compensating differences. Second, reform of Korean workers' compensation in 1989 led to a substantial rise in benefits that also served to reduce the extent of compensating differentials.
• Kim, S., & Fishback, P. V. (1999). The impact of institutional change on compensating wage differentials for accident risk: South Korea, 1984--1990. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 18(3), 231--248.
• Fishback, P. V. (1998). Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century. Journal of Economic Literature, 36(2), 722-765.
• Fishback, P. V. (1998). Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870--1939. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 415. $49.95.. The Journal of Economic History, 58(01), 278--279.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (1998). The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States, 1900-\`O1930. Journal of Law and Economics, 41(2), 1.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (1998). The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910--1930. Explorations in Economic History, 35(2), 109--139.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (1998). The adoption of workers' compensation in the United States, 1900-1930. Journal of Law and Economics, 41(2), 305-341.
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  Abstract: Workers' compensation was established by a coalition of workers, employers, and insurers who anticipated gains from replacing negligence liability. Employers anticipated reduced uncertainty and administration costs and were able to pass some of the costs of workers' compensation benefits on to workers through lower wages. The average worker anticipated higher postaccident benefits. Even if lower wages meant they "bought" better benefits, they anticipated better "insurance" of accident risk. Insurers expected to expand their coverage of workplace accidents. Legislative action was required because the courts did not recognize private contracts in which workers waived their rights to negligence suits prior to an accident. Changes in employers' liability served as the catalyst uniting the groups in support of the legislation. Workers' compensation was adopted earlier in states where employers' liability costs were increasing more, unions were stronger, plant sizes were larger, and to some extent where the Progressive movement was stronger.
• Kantor, S. E., & Fishback, P. V. (1998). How Minnesota adopted workers' compensation. Independent Review, 2(4), 557-578.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (1996). The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century. The Journal of Economic History, 56(04), 809--836.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (1996). The durable experiment: State insurance of workers' compensation risk in the early twentieth century. Journal of Economic History, 56(4), 809-836.
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  Abstract: In the early 1910s state governments debated the private versus public underwriting of workers' compensation risk. The choices they made established the existing system today and set the stage for later debates over the government's underwriting of unemployment, health, and disability risks. This article offers both quantitative and case-study analyses of states' original choices between public and private insurance. Monopoly state funds were adopted in some states because of an unusual combination of strong unions and weak insurance and agricultural interests. In other states, the emergence of progressive political coalitions played the decisive role.
• Kantor, S. E., & Fishback, P. V. (1996). Precautionary saving, insurance, and the origins of workers' compensation. Journal of Political Economy, 104(2), 419-442.
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  Abstract: In this article we test whether the introduction of social insurance has led to a reduction in private insurance purchases and precautionary saving by examining the introduction of workers' compensation. Our empirical analysis is based on the financial decisions of over 7,000 households surveyed for the 1917-19 Bureau of Labor Statistics Cost-of-Living study. We find that the presence of workers' compensation at least partially crowded out private accident insurance and led to a substantial reduction in precautionary saving. The introduction of workers' compensation caused private saving to fall by approximately 25 percent, with other factors held constant.
• Fishback, P. (1995). An alternative view of violence in labor disputes in the early 1900s: the Bituminous Coal Industry, 1890--1930. Labor History, 36(3), 426--456.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (1995). Did workers pay for the passage of workers' compensation laws?. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 713--742.
• Kantor, S. E., & Fishback, P. V. (1995). Nonfatal accident compensation and the common law at the turn of the century. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 11(2), 406-433.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (1994). The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation in the Early Twentieth Century. NBER Reporter, 5.
• Kim, S., & Fishback, P. V. (1993). Institutional Change, Compensating Differentials, and Accident Risk in American Railroding, 1892--1945. The Journal of Economic History, 53(04), 796--823.
• Fishback, P. V. (1992). Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880--1960. By Crandall A. Shifflett. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 259. $34.95.. The Journal of Economic History, 52(03), 730--731.
• Fishback, P. V. (1992). The economics of company housing: Historical perspectives from the coal fields. Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 8(2), 346-365.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kantor, S. E. (1992). “Square Deal” or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884--1903. The Journal of Economic History, 52(04), 826--848.
• Fishback, P. V. (1991). SEPARATE-BUT-UNEQUAL SCHOOLS AND THE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT OF BLACK AND WHITE CHILDREN, I900-I 940. Advances in the study of entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth, 5, 183.
• Fishback, P. V. (1991). Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. By Priscilla Long. New York: Paragon House, 1989. Pp. xxv, 420. $24.95.. The Journal of Economic History, 51(04), 991--992.
• Fishback, P. V., & Baskin, J. H. (1991). Narrowing the black-white gap in child literacy in 1910: the roles of school inputs and family inputs. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 725--728.
• Fishback, P. V. (1989). Can competition among employers reduce governmental discrimination? Coal companies and segregated schools in West Virginia in the early 1900s. Journal of Law and Economics, 311--328.
• Fishback, P. V. (1989). Debt peonage in postbellum Georgia. Explorations in Economic History, 26(2), 219-236.
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  Abstract: Descriptions of the postbellum South vary. Farmers either were postharvest debt peons, were subject to "seasonal credit peonage" to a monopolistic store, or relied on seasonal credit from stores that faced spatial competition. Analysis of Georgia Agricultual Departmenta data shows that postharvest debt peonage was not a major problem in the 1880s. Most other results are consistent with both monopolistic and competitive views of the stores. Increases in income reduced indebtedness; and reliance on purchased supplies increased the likelihood of indebtedness and of future reliance on purchased supplies. Past reliance on purchased supplies, however, did not affect the crop mix. © 1989.
• Fishback, P. V. (1989). Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations. By Howard M. Gitelman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 355. $29.95.. The Journal of Economic History, 49(03), 781--783.
• Fishback, P. V., & Lauszus, D. (1989). The quality of services in company towns: Sanitation in coal towns during the 1920s. Journal of Economic History, 49, 125--144.
• Fishback, P. V., & Terza, J. V. (1989). ARE ESTIMATES OF SEX DISCRIMINATION BY EMPLOYERS ROBUST? THE USE OF NEVER-MARRIEDS. Economic Inquiry, 27(2), 271--285.
• J, S., & Fishback, P. V. (1989). Firm-specific evidence on racial wage differentials and workforce segregation in Hawaii's sugar industry. Explorations in Economic History, 26(4), 403-423.
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  Abstract: We examine firm-specific data from 38 sugar plantations in Hawaii during 1900-1901 to study the magnitude and source of racial and ethnic wage differentials. Substantial differences in the average wages received by members of different ethmic groups were found, with Americans and Europeans at the top of the average wage ranking and Chinese and Japanese at the bottom. While a substantial portion of the wage differences was caused by concentration of non-Caucasians in low-wage jobs, Americans and Europeans were also paid higher wages than non-Caucasians for the same job. The differences were not necessarily due to discrimination. Evidence from outside the sample suggests that there were productivity differences between and within ethnic groups. © 1989.
• Fishback, P. V. (1988). Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. By Ronald L. Lewis. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Pp. xv, 239. $25.00.. The Journal of Economic History, 48(02), 496--498.
• Fishback, P. V. (1988). Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. By Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. University: University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. x, 159. $19.95.. The Journal of Economic History, 48(01), 219--220.
• Fishback, P. V. (1987). Liability rules and accident prevention in the workplace: empirical evidence from the early twentieth century. The journal of legal studies, 305--328.
• Fishback, P. V. (1987). Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875--1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 323. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.. The Journal of Economic History, 47(02), 573--574.
• Fishback, P. V. (1986). Did Coal Miners “Owe Their Souls to the Company Store”? Theory and Evidence from the Early 1900s. The Journal of Economic History, 46(04), 1011--1029.
• Fishback, P. V. (1986). More Deadly than War: Pacific Coast Logging, 1827--1981. By Andrew Mason Prouty. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. Pp. xxvii, 252. $30.00.. The Journal of Economic History, 46(04), 1097--1098.
• Fishback, P. V. (1986). The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. By Donald L. Miller and Richard E. Sharpless. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 360. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.. The Journal of Economic History, 46(03), 871--872.
• Fishback, P. V. (1986). Workplace safety during the progressive era: Fatal accidents in bituminous coal mining, 1912-1923. Explorations in Economic History, 23(3), 269-298.
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  PMID: 11620148;Abstract: Quantitative analysis of fatal accident rates in coal mining in the early 1900s offers several insights about the extent of competition in the coal labor market and the effectiveness of legislative reforms. Miners were mobile enough to limit their labor supply to more dangerous mines. Miners' incomes were apparently high enough that they were not forced to "gamble" their lives more when wages were cut. Unionization raised wages but did not lower accident rates. Progressive Era reforms-including state mining laws, workers' compensation legislation, and the formation of the U.S. Bureau of Mines-generally had insignificant impact on mine safety. © 1986.
• Fishback, P. V. (1985). Discrimination on Nonwage Margins: Safety in the West Virginia Coal Industry, 1906--1925. Economic inquiry, 23(4), 651--669.
• Fishback, P. V. (1985). Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry. By Curtis Seltzer. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 276. $28.00.. The Journal of Economic History, 45(03), 755--756.
• Fishback, P. (1984). Segregation in job hierarchies: West Virginia coal mining, 1906--1932. The Journal of Economic History, 44(03), 755--774.
• Schmitz, M., & Fishback, P. V. (1983). The Distribution of the Income in the Great Depression: Preliminary State Estimates. Journal of Economic History, 43(01), 217--230.

Proceedings Publications

• Neumann, T. C., Fishback, P. V., & Taylor, J. (2013, Spring). Comparisons of Weekly Hours Over the Past Century and the Importance of Work Sharing Policies in the 1930's. In American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings.

Presentations

• Fishback, P. V. (2021, January 20). “The Current Economy in Historical Perspective, Part II.”. Zoom Presentation for Tucson Young Professionals. Zoom in Tucson: Tucson Young Professionals.
• Fishback, P. V. (2021, January 4). “Presentation of the TIAA Institute’s Paul Samuelson Award Winning Paper by Ralph Koijen and T. Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh on ‘Combining Life and Health Insurance’. Session for the 2020 TIAA Paul A. Samuelson Award at the American Social Science Association Meetings. Zoom online: American Economic Association and TIAA Institute.
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  Presentation on the Research Done by the Paul Samuelson Award Winners at the ASSA Awards Presentation. I was a Judge for the Award
• Fishback, P. V. (2021, October). Introduction of President. Economic History Association Meetings. Tucson, Arizona: Economic History Association.
• Fishback, P. V. (2021, Spring). “Differences in Organization of Welfare and Social Insurance in the 20th Century.”. Conference on Organizational Complexity and Institutional Dynamics. Zoom: Templeton Foundation.
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  Presented on April 23, 2021. Conference also on April 30, and May 7, 2021.
• Fishback, P. V., & Ferrara, A. (2021, Spring). “Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes for the Discriminators and the Discriminated Against: Evidence from the Treatment of German-Americans Circa World War I.. American Social Science Association Meetings. Zoom on line: American Economic Association.
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  Presentation at the ASSA meetings was done by Andreas with me in the audience and available to answer questions
• Fishback, P. V., LaVoice, J., Shertzer, A., & Walsh, R. (2021, May). “Race, Risk, and the Emergence of Federal Redlining.”. Wharton Mini Workshop on Neighborhoods: Schools, Crime, and Segregation.”. Zoom: Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania.
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  presented by co-author Jessica LaVoice with me in attendance.
• Fishback, P. V., Schaller, J., & Taylor, E. J. (2021, April). “Black-White Differences in Access to New Deal Work Relief.”. Yale Conference on Resilience in Economic History on Zoom.. Zoom: Yale Economic Department.
• Fishback, P. V., Schaller, J., & Taylor, E. J. (2021, July 20). “Black-White Differences in Access to New Deal Work Relief.”. IPUMS 2021 Data Intensive Research Projects. Session on Racial Disparities in the United States.. Zoom: IPUMS.
• Fishback, P. V., Taylor, E. J., & Schaller, J. (2021, April). “Black-White Differences in Access to New Deal Work Relief.”. Virtual Economic History Seminar Sponsored by the Economic History Association and Cliometrics Society on Zoom.. zoom: Economic History Association and Cliometrics Society.
• Fishback, P. V., Taylor, E. J., & Schaller, J. (2021, July). “Black-White Differences in Access to New Deal Work Relief.” National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute. Development of the American Economy Egg Timer Session on Zoom. July 13, 2021.. National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute. Development of the American Economy Egg Timer Session on Zoom.. Zoom: National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Fishback, P. V. (2020, December 2). “The Current Economy in Historical Perspective.”. Zoom Presentation for Tucson Young Professionals. Zoom in Tucson: Tucson Young Professionals.
• Fishback, P. V. (2020, January). Inequality in America: A Historical Perspective. Public Presentation. League of Women Voters. Tucson, Arizona: League of Women Voters.
• Fishback, P. V. (2020, July). Racial Differences in Access to New Deal Relief. Seminar in University of Arizona Economics Department Summer Series. Zoom: University of Victoria Economics Department.
• Fishback, P. V. (2020, May 13). “Epidemics, Freedom, and the Economy in American History.”. Online Zoom Seminar for hundreds of K-12 teachers. Zoom for National Audience: Foundation for Teaching Economics.
• Fishback, P. V. (2020, September 20). Racial Differences in Access to New Deal Relief. Seminar at University of Victoria. Zoom: University of Victoria Economics Department.
• Fishback, P. V., & Haupert, M. (2020, January). “The Rich Palette of the Economic History Curriculum”. Allied Social Sciences Association Meeting. Zoom online: American Economic Association.
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  Paper on Teaching Economic History at the Undergraduate and Graduate Level. Michael presented it with me in the audience at the ASSA meetings in January 2021 and looks like that it might be published in the Economics of Education Review, but we are waiting to more.
• Fishback, P. V., Hammond, G. W., & Bonaime, A. (2020, May 14). “Wonder at Home: Covid 19 and the Economy”. Wonder at Home Series for the University of Arizona. Zoom for the University of Arizona Community: University of ARizona President's Office.
• Fishback, P. V. (2019, January 4, 2019). “Rule of Law in Labor Disputes”. Cliometric Society session on “Spatial Perspectves on Economic Opportunity.” At the American Social Science Association Meetings i. Atlanta Georgia: American Social Science Association.
• Fishback, P. V. (2019, September). Presidential Address. “Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the 20th Century.”. Economic History Association Meetings. Atlanta, Georgia: Economic History Association.
• Fishback, P. V., Depew, B., Sorensen, T., Kantor, S., & Rhode, P. (2019, September). The New Deal and Cotton Agriculture in the 1930s. Utah State Economics Department Seminar. Logan Utah: Economics Department at Utah State University.
• Fishback, P. V., Schaller, J., & Liu, X. (2019, January 6, 2019). “Differences in Access to Work Relief for Blacks and Whites During the New Deal.”. Labor Economics and Employment Relations session on “Policies to Increase Employment Security: Federal Jobs Guarantee, Wage Subsidies, and Beyond at the American Social Science Association Meetings. Atlanta Georgia: Allied Social Sciences Associations.
• Fishback, P. V. (2018, April). “Rule of Law in Labor Disputes.”. Hoover Institutions’ Conference on Regulation and Rule of Law Initiative at the Hoover Institution. Stanford, CA.
• Fishback, P. V. (2018, June). “Rule of Law in Labor Disputes, Revised Version.”. Hoover Institutions’ Conference on Regulation and Rule of Law Initiative. Washington, D.C..
• Fishback, P. V. (2018, November). “Rule of Law in Labor Relations”. Seminar Presentation: University of California, Davis. University of California, Davis.
• Fishback, P. V. (2018, October). “Rule of Law in Labor Relations”. Seminar Presentation: University of California, Irvine. University of California, Irvine.
• Fishback, P. V. (2018, Spring 2018). PHI BETA KAPPA TWO-DAY VISITS TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. Each visit was sponsored by the national Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society and the local chapter. Each involves a public talk and then visits to 4-5 classes, meetings with students and faculty, and lunch and dinner meetings with students and faculty. I list the public talk given at each school. Hendrix College, February 12-13, 2018. “Social Welfare Spending in the U.S. and Nordic Countries.” Texas Tech University, February 15-16. “War: What Is It Good For” Middlebury College, March 12-13. “War: What Is It Good For” University of North Carolina, Greensboro, March 15-16. “War: What Is It Good For”. See above.: Phi Beta Kappa.
• Fishback, P. V. (2018, Spring). “Measuring Government Authority.”. The Life & Legacy of Douglass North: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of North’s Nobel Prize in Economics. George Mason University.
• Fishback, P. V. (2020, April). The New Deal. Presentation in Economic History Class at Notre Dame university. Zoom to Notre Dame: Notre Dame Economics Department.
• Fishback, P. V., Depew, B., Kantor, S., Rhode, P., & Sorensen, T. (2018, Apring). “The Impact of New Deal Farm Programs During the 1930's". Seminar Presentation: University of Michigan. University of Michigan.
• Fishback, P. V., Depew, B., Kantor, S., Rhode, P., & Sorensen, T. (2018, August). “The Impact of New Deal Farm Programs During the 1930s". World Economic History Congress. Cambridge, MA.
• Fishback, P. V., Depew, B., Kantor, S., Rhode, P., & Sorensen, T. (2018, February). “The Impact of New Deal Farm Programs During the 1930s”. Seminar Presentation, Texas Tech University. Texas Tech University.
• Fishback, P. V., Depew, B., Kantor, S., Rhode, P., & Sorensen, T. (2018, October). “The Impact of New Deal Farm Programs During the 1930's”. Seminar Presentation: Iowa State University. Iowa State University.
• Fishback, P. V., Depew, B., Kantor, S., Rhode, P., & Sorensen, T. (2018, October). “The Impact of New Deal Farm Programs During the 1930's”. Seminar Presentation: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Agricultural Economics Department. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Fishback, P. V., Fleitas, S., Rose, J., & Snowden, K. (2018, August). “Foreclosed Real Estate and the Supply of Mortgage Credit by Building and Loans during the 1930s”. World Economic History Congress. Cambridge, MA.
• Fishback, P. V., Fleitas, S., Rose, J., & Snowden, K. (2018, November). “Collateral damage: Foreclosures and new mortgage lending in the 1930's". Seminar Presentation: University of California, Merced. University of California, Merced.
• Fishback, P. V., Schaller, J. C., & Liu, X. (. (2018, August). “Differences in Access to Work Relief for Blacks and Whites During the New Deal.”. World Economic History Congress. Cambridge, MA.
• Fishback, P. V., Schaller, J. C., & Liu, X. (2018, November). “Differences in Access to Work Relief for Blacks and Whites During the New Deal.”. Social Science History Association Meetings.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, April). Agriculture and the New Deal. Vanderbilt University.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, April). Agriculture and the New Deal. Yale University Economics Department Seminar.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, Fall). The Economy in Historical Perspective. Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society Two-Day Visit. Florida State University: Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, January). Claudia Goldin’s Contributions to Labor Economics and Economic History. IZA Reception at the ASSA meetings in Chicago. Chicago, IL.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, June). Agriculture and the New Deal. Northwestern University Economic History Seminar.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, June). Rise of Social Insurance in the United States. All-Chicago Economic History Dinner.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, May). The Newest on the New Deal. Keynote Address at the Economic and Business History Society Meetings. Okalahoma City, OK: Economic and Business History Society.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, November). Social Welfare Spending in the U.S. and Nordic Countries. Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society Two-Day Visit. Luther College: Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, November). The Economy in Historical Pespective. Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society Two-Day Visit. St. Josephs University: Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, November). War: What Is It Good For. Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society Two-Day Visit. Rockford University: Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, October). Agriculture and the New Deal. Florida State University Economics Department Seminar.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, October). Agriculture and the New Deal. William & Mary.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, September). Long Term Trends Related to the Grand Bargain of Workers’ Compensation. 2017 Annual Workers’ Compensation Seminar. Prescott Resort and Conference Center in Prescott, Arizona: 2017 Annual Workers’ Compensation Seminar, Co-sponsored by the Workers’ Compensation Section.
• Fishback, P. V. (2017, Spring). Agriculture and the New Deal. UCLA Economic History Workshop, Mini Conference.
• Fishback, P. V., & Liu, X. (2017, January). Effects of New Deal Spending and the Downturns of the 1930s on Private Labor Markets in 1939/1940 (Presented by Xing Liu). ASSA meetings in Chicago. Chicago, IL.
• Fishback, P. V., Fleitas, S., Rose, J., & Snowden, K. (2017, Fall). Foreclosed Real Estate and the Supply of Mortgage Credit by Building and Loans during the 1930s. Economic History Association Meetings. San Jose, CA.
• Fishback, P. V., Fleitas, S., Rose, J., & Snowden, K. (2017, July 2017). Foreclosed Real Estate and the Supply of Mortgage Credit by Building and Loans during the 1930s. Egg Timer Session at the Development of the American Economy, Summer Institute at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kachanovskaya, V. (2016, March). How the New Deal Influenced Executive Control of the Distribution of Federal Spending Across States. With Valentina Kachanovskaya. Regulation and Rule of Law Workshop at the Hoover Institution.
• Fishback, P. V., & Kachanovskaya, V. (2016, Summer). How the New Deal Influenced Executive Control of the Distribution of Federal Spending Across States” With Valentina Kachanovskaya. Hoover e Regulation and Rule of Law Workshop. Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• Fishback, P. V. (2015, February). Plummeting Oil Prices—Good or Bad. Public Speaking Engagement. Tucson, AZ: The Thomas R. Brown Foundation, the Eller College of Management and the Norton School of Consumer and Family Sciences.
• Fishback, P. V. (2015, October). Big Data in History-The New Deal. Public Speaking Engagement. Phoenix, AZ: Eller College Board of Advisors.
• Fishback, P. V. (2015, October). Plummeting Oil Prices—Good or Bad. xxx. Tucson, AZ: The Thomas R. Brown Foundation, the Eller College of Management and the Norton School of Consumer and Family Sciences.
• Fishback, P. V. (2014, December). How the New Deal Saved Housing in the Great Depression. Public Speaking Engagement. University of Hawaii: Economics Department and Public Policy School, University of Hawaii.
• Fishback, P. V. (2014, November). Modern History: What the Economic Past Can Tell Us About the Future. Big Bright Minds. Tucson, AZ: Filene Research Institute.
• Fishback, P. V. (2014, Spring). The Impact of World War II on Female Workers, with Dina Shatnawi. Economic History Society Meetings. University of Pittsburgh and the University of California at Davis..
• Fishback, P. V. (2013, November). Well Worth Saving: The New Deal Housing Policy and Lessons for Today. Public Speaking Engagement. Tucson, AZ: The Brown Foundation, the University of Arizona Economics Department, and the Eller MBA Program.
• Fishback, P. V. (2013, October). New Deal Policies and Their Impact Today. Public Speaking Engagement. Asheville, NC: University of North Carolina, Asheville.
• Fishback, P. V. (2013, October). The Current Economy in Historical Perspective. Public Speaking Engagement. Tucson, AZ: The Graduate Club.
• Fishback, P. V. (2012, November). Dinner and a Movie: The Wizard of Oz and the Economy of the Late 19th Century. Public Speaking Engagement. Tucson, AZ: Arizona Historical Society, Brown Foundation, and Arizona Council for Economic Education.
• Fishback, P. V. (2012, October). The Distribution of Funds During the New Deal. Public Speaking Engagement, University of Arizona Economics Club. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Economics Club.

Reviews

• Fishback, P. V. (2015. Book Review of Mark Hendrickson. American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War I to the Great Depression (New York, Cambridge University Press, 2013) 320 pp. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 46(2) (Autumn 2015): 299-300.(pp 299-300). Journal of Interdisciplinary History.
• Fishback, P. (2012. The Race Between Education and Technology. By Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA. 2008. 488 pp. Pbk $19.95..
• Fishback, P. (2011. New deal banking reforms and Keynesian welfare state capitalism--By Ellen D. Russell(pp 1421--1423).
• FISHBACK, P. (1993. A WAY OF WORK AND A WAY OF LIFE-COAL-MINING IN THURBER, TEXAS, 1888-1926-RHINEHART, MD.

Creative Productions

• Fishback, P. V. (2018. “Historical Labor Markets” on Free to Exchange. Hosted by Ben Powell on Texas Tech PBS station.. PBS television interview. https://www.depts.ttu.edu/freemarketinstitute/tv_show_s4.php.. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Public Television. https://www.depts.ttu.edu/freemarketinstitute/tv_show_s4.php.

Creative Performances

• Fishback, P. V. (2018. War: What is it Good For?. Lecture by Price Fishback at Texas Tech University, February 15, 2018. Filmed for the Internet. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Phi Beta Kappa Chapter. https://www.depts.ttu.edu/westernciv/video_lectures/price_fishback_pbk.php

Others

• Fishback, P. V. (2020, March 23). Radio Interview “Coronavirus Closures Cause Spike In Jobless Claims, Keep HR Managers Busy.”. KJZZ 91.5 in Phoenix.. https://kjzz.org/content/1498946/coronavirus-closures-cause-spike-jobless-claims-keep-hr-managers-busy
• Fishback, P. V. (2020, March 24). Radio Interview. “America’s Economic Nightmare.”. Buckmaster Radio Show. https://www.buckmastershow.com/2020/03/24/buckmaster-show-3-24-2020-americas-economic-nightmare/
• Fishback, P. V. (2020, May 6). “The COVID Crisis in Comparison with the Great Depression.. featured Post On EconLog.. https://www.econlib.org/the-covid-crisis-in-comparison-with-the-great-depression/
• Fishback, P. V., & Mitchener, K. (2020, May 7). “Outside the Box: Opinion: Here’s how unemployed Americans can do an important job to fight the coronavirus pandemic.”. MarketWatch.com. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-unemployed-americans-can-be-put-to-work-fighting-the-coronavirus-pandemic-2020-05-07?mod=opinion
• Fishback, P. V., Ferrara, A., & Free-Lance Writer, C. I. (2020, August). Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes. Cato Institute. Research Briefs in Economic Policy No. 226. https://www.cato.org/publications/research-briefs-economic-policy/discrimination-migration-economic-outcomes-evidence?utm_campaign=Research%20Briefs%20in%20Economic%20Policy&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=92694236&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--hT2H1qfpcU_MwU7HX8fiHmvOh6AEvnjFXPBTD9QepYsKkjymEP_XuDUdSVLLrl7NxdCqJg58YOwKYTVe8wVG6pNIZUE68EmpFhoiKR2M1p1yllEI&utm_content=92694236&utm_source=hs_email
• Fishback, P. V., Rose, J., & Snowden, K. (2020, March). “Housing Markets in a Time of Crisis: A Historical Perspective.. Chicago Fed Letter. https://www.chicagofed.org/publications/chicago-fed-letter/2020/433
• Fishback, P. V. (2019, November). World War II in America: Spending, Deficits, Multipliers, and Sacrifice. Column in Vox CEPR Policy Portal,. Vox CEPR Policy Portal,. https://voxeu.org/article/world-war-ii-america-spending-deficits-multipliers-and-sacrifice
• Fishback, P. V. (2019, October). “Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the 20th Century.”. C-SPAN. https://www.c-span.org/video/?464327-1/20th-century-social-insurance-public-assistance
• Fishback, P. V., Fleitas, S., Rose, J., & Snowden, K. (2019, January). “Collateral damage: Foreclosures and new mortgage lending in the 1930s.”. VOX CEPR Policy Portal on 18 January 2019. online.
• Fishback, P. V. (2014, Fall). The Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending during the Great Depression. NBER Reporter.
• Stuckler, D., Meissner, C., Fishback, P., Basu, S., & McKee, M. (2013, January). Was the great depression a cause or correlate of significant mortality declines? An epidemiological response to granados. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health. http://10.1136/jech-2012-201903
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• FISHBACK, P. (1988). BLACK COAL-MINERS IN AMERICA-RACE, CLASS, AND COMMUNITY CONFLICT, 1780-1980-LEWIS, RL.