Lance E. Davis
Mary Stillman Harkness Professor of Social Science, Emeritus
Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991
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Office: Email: led@hss.caltech.edu Tel: |
Mailing Address: California Institute of Technology Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences MC 228-77 Pasadena, CA 91125 |
Research interests
Evolution of capital markets, institutional change, technological change.
Publications
In Search of Leviathan: Technology, Labor, Productivity and Profits in American Whaling, 1816--1906, with Robert Gallman and Karin Gleiter. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Bearing the white man's burden: The costs of collective security---A pervasive dilemma, with Robert A. Huttenback. In Second Thoughts: The Uses of Economic History, Donald McClosky, editor. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
International capital movements, domestic capital markets and American growth, 1820--1914, with Robert Cull. In Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Vol. II, S. Engerman and R. Gallman, editors. Cambridge University Press, 1995.