Stanley Engerman

Stanley Lewis Engerman (born March 14, 1936 ) is an American economist , economic historian and university lecturer . He worked, among others, with the later Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel .

Scientific successes

Engermann was president of the "Social Science History Association" and the "Economic History Association". Today he is Professor of Economics and History at the University of Rochester , where he teaches economic history and the economics of sports and entertainment. He is currently teaching the same subjects as a visiting professor at Harvard University . Engermann became known through the work " Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery ", which was created in collaboration with the later Nobel Prize winner Robert Fogel , which was later awarded the prestigious "Bancroft Prize" for American history by Columbia University . In this work, Fogel and Engermann take a critical look at the economic aspects of former slavery in America. As an author or co-author, Engermann has written 12 scientific studies the length of a book and published over 100 articles in his department. His works have not yet been translated into German. In 1985 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Works (selection)

• Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (with Robert Fogel), 1974.
• A Historical Guide to World Slavery (with Seymour Drescher) (1998)
• Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives (Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History) (2007)
• Slavery (Oxford Readers) (with Seymour Drescher and Robert Paquette) (2001)
• The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World SL ENGERMAN, KL SOKOLOFF - The Journal of Economic History, 2005 - Cambridge Univ. Press
• Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations of Economic Differences
• Slavery and Emancipation in Comparative Perspectives: A Look at Some Recent Debates , Journal of Economic History, 1986.

Individual evidence

1. ^ University of Rochester ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 9, 2011.