Naomi Lamoreaux

Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University, Chair of the History Department, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins in 1979 and has taught at Brown and the University of California, Los Angeles. She has written The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 and Insider Lending:  Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England, edited eight other books, and published numerous articles on business, economic, and financial history.  She also co-edited the Journal of Economic History from 1992 to 1996.  Lamoreaux has been elected president of the Business History Conference and the Economic History Association and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Cliometrics Society.  She has been awarded the Alice Hanson Jones book prize, the Henrietta Larson, PEAES, and Arthur Cole article prizes, the Harold Williamson Prize for an outstanding business historian in mid-career, the Cliometrics award for exceptional support to that field, and the Business History Conference’s Lifetime Achievement Award.  Her current research interests include patenting and the market for technology in the late nineteenth and twentieth century U.S., business organizational forms and contractual freedom in the U.S. and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the public/private distinction in U.S. history, and the rise and decline of innovative regions.

 

 

Naomi Lamoreaux and Ian Shapiro, eds., The Bretton Woods Agreement:  Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents (New Haven, Conn.:  Yale University Press, forthcoming 2018).

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and John Joseph Wallis, eds., Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, December 2017).

Naomi R. Lamoreaux and William Novak, eds., Corporations and American Democracy (Cambridge, Mass.:  Harvard University Press, 2017).

Timothy W. Guinnane, Ron Harris, and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Contractual Freedom and Corporate Governance in Britain in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” Business History Review 91 (Summer 2017), 227-77.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Cultural Change and Business History,” Business and Economic History On-Line 15 (2017).

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Corporate Governance and the Expansion of the Democratic Franchise:  Beyond Cross-Country Regressions,” Scandinavian Economic History Review 64 (issue 2, 2016): 103-21.

Bruce G. Carruthers and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Regulatory Races:  The Effects of Jurisdictional Competition on Regulatory Standards,” Journal of Economic Literature 54 (March 2016): 52-97.

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, “Beyond the Old and the New:  Economic History in the United States,” in The Routledge Handbook of Global Economic History, ed. Francesco Boldizzoni and Pat Hudson (London:  Routledge, 2016), 35-54.