Lance E Davis

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Name Lance Davis
Born November 3, 1928 ( 1928-11-03 ) Seattle Institution California Institute of Technology Alma mater Johns Hopkins University Died January 20, 2014, Fort Smith, Arkansas, United States Education Johns Hopkins University (1953–1956) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada People also search for Robert E. Gallman, Stanley Engerman, J. R. T. Hughes, Peter Lester Payne Books In pursuit of Leviathan, Naval Blockades in Peace, Mammon and the Pursuit of, Evolving Financial Markets a, American Economic History: T

Lance Edwin Davis (November 3, 1928 – January 20, 2014) was the Mary Stillman Harkness Professor of Social Science at the California Institute of Technology. He researched the economic history of financial markets and institutional and technological change. His work has been recognised by The Cliometric Society via their awarding him a Clio Can in recognition his of exceptional support of cliometrics.

Davis was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1956 with thesis titled United States Financial Intermediaries in the Early 19th Century: Four Case Studies.

Selected publications

Davis, Lance E. with Douglass North (1971) Institutional Change and American Economic Growth, Cambridge University Press.

Davis, Lance E. with Robert Huttenback (1986) Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism (revised and abridged edition, 1988), Cambridge University Press.

Davis, Lance E. with Robert Cull(1994) International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820–1914, Cambridge University Press.

Davis, Lance E. with Robert Gallman (200) Evolving Financial Markets and International Capital Flows: Britain, the Americas, and Australia, 1870–1914, Cambridge University Press.

References

Lance E. Davis Wikipedia

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