Peter H. Lindert
CV Economics 210A Syllabus (Fall 2005) Econ 210B Syllabus (Winter 2006) Economics 210C Syllabus (Spring 2005) Econ 1B Econ 111B (Fall 2007) Integrated Studies 8C Economics 194H Sovereign Debt Historical Data (Lindert-Morton) English Probates 1670–1875.xls “Aging Gracefully? 20^th Century Pensions in the 21^st” (Singapore 5 May 2008) "Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?" "Why the Welfare State Looks Like a Free Lunch" "Three Centuries of Inequality in Britain and America” Lindert data CUP book Britain’s Social Tables 1688 on Allard-Lindert OECD data sets 1950-2001 Early U.S. education data and regressions, Go-Lindert “Curious Dawn” paper “Long-run Trends in US Farmland Values” (1988) “Welfare States, Markets, and Efficiency: The Free Lunch Puzzle Continues”
Research Interests: Modern economic history of all kinds. Current Research: Causes and effects of modern fiscal redistribution; history of inequality, political voice and economic growth. See also the new web site of the Global Price and Income History Group for a growing array of downloadable files of historical data. Representative Recent Papers: • Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. Two volumes. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Growing Public has been awarded the 2005 Allan Sharlin Prize for best book in social science history published in 2004 and is also a co-winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize for the best book in European Economic History in 2003-2004. • Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson, "Does Globalization Make the World More Unequal?" in Michael D. Bordo, Alan M. Taylor, and Jeffrey G. Williamson (eds.), Globalization in Historical Perspective (Chicago: University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 2003), pp. 227-270. • "Voice and Growth: Was Churchill Right?" Journal of Economic History, 63, 2 (June 2003): 315-350. • Shifting Ground: The Changing Agricultural Soils of China and Indonesia (book), MIT Press 2000. • "Three Centuries of Inequality in Britain and America," in A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Handbook of Income Distribution, Elsevier 2000. Professional Affiliations: Economic History Association (President-Elect, Journal Co-Editor, Editorial Board, Board of Trustees); Cliometric Society  (Winner of Its "Can" Award); American Economic Association; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research.