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Peter Lindert
Distinguished Professor Emeritus;
Department of Economics
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Peter Lindert has expertise in economic history and public economics. He is a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).
Professor Lindert studies the causes and effects of modern fiscal redistribution; and the history of inequality, political voice and economic growth.
** Peter H. Lindert. 2021. Making Social Spending Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
** Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2016. Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
** Jan Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, Peter Lindert, and Jeffrey Madrick, 2016. How Big Should Our Government Be? Berkeley: University of California Press.
** "Private Welfare and the Welfare State". In Larry Neal and Jeffrey. G. Williamson (eds.), The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2: The Spread of Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, Chapter 14, pp. 464-500.
** Peter H. Lindert and Steven Nafziger. 2014. “Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution”. Journal of Economic History 74, 3 (September): 767-798.
** Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. "American Incomes before and after the Revolution". Journal of Economic History 73, 3 (September 2013): 725-765.
** Branko Milanovic, Jeffrey G. Williamson, and Peter H. Lindert. 2011. “Preindustrial Inequality.” 2011. Economic Journal 121 (March): 255-272.
** Sun Go and Peter H. Lindert. “The Uneven Rise of American Public Schools to 1850.” 2010. Journal of Economic History 70, 1 (March): 1-26.
** Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. Two Volumes. Cambridge University Press, 2004.Translations to other languages: (a) Välfädsstatens expansion (in Swedish, 2005), (b) Spesa sociale e crescita (in Italian, 2007), (c) El ascenso del sector público (in Spanish, 2011).
Translations to other languages: (a) Välfädsstatens expansion (in Swedish, 2005), (b) Spesa sociale e crescita (in Italian, 2007), (c) El ascenso del sector público (in Spanish, 2011).
** Download the “cv” for a fuller list of scholarly works.