Nationality American Name Lee Alston | Fields Economic history | |
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Born March 29, 1951 (age 72)
Port Washington, Wisconsin ( 1951-03-29 ) Thesis Cost of contracting and decline or tennancy in the South, 1930-1960 (1978) Notable awards Cliometric Society Award in 2012, past president of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics Institution University of Colorado Boulder Books Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965 Alma mater Indiana University Bloomington, University of Washington People also search for Þrainn Eggertsson, Joseph P. Ferrie, Gary D. Libecap, Douglass North | ||
Lee J. Alston (born March 29, 1951) is the Ostrom Chair, Professor of Economics and Law, and Director of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. On August 6, 2014, Alston was appointed director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, from which he received his B.A. in 1973. His research has focused on institutions and contracts and their role in influencing rural land use in the US and Brazil. In 2012 Alston was awarded a Clio Can award by the Cliometric Society for Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics.
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