Stephen Haber

Stephen H. Haber (* 1957 ) is an American historian and political scientist . Since 1994 he has held various professorships at Stanford University . His research is mainly concerned with the effects of political institutions on economic development, with a focus on the countries of Latin America and in particular on Mexico and Brazil .

Career

Stephen Haber studied International Relations at George Washington University in Washington, DC , where he became a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society in 1979 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in the same year . He then studied history at the University of California in Los Angeles , where he received his Master of Arts in 1981 and then went on to study for a doctorate. He stayed in Mexico from 1982 to 1983 as part of the Fulbright program . From 1983 to 1984, and later again from 1992 to 1993, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego . With his dissertation The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890 to 1940: The Structure and Growth of Manufacturing in an Underdeveloped Economoy , Haber received his doctorate in 1985.

Following his doctorate, Stephen Haber became an assistant professor in the history department at Columbia University in New York City in 1985 . In 1987 he switched to the history department at Stanford University in Stanford (California) , where he was appointed associate professor in 1991. In addition, he was again in 1987 within the Fulbright program as a visiting professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica in Mexico City , and in 1990 at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte .

In 1994, Haber was finally appointed professor of history at Stanford. In 1997 he became a Fellow of the Stanford University-based research institutions Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Stanford Center for International Development . In addition, he was appointed to a professorship for political science at Stanford University in 1999 and economics in 2001 . He has been a Fellow of the Hoover Institution since 2001 .

In the summer semesters 2013 and 2014 Haber was a visiting scholar at the Center for Economic Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and has been a fellow of the Munich CESifo group ever since . He has also been a Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research in Singapore since 2014 . In 2015, Haber was a visiting scholar at the two institutions in Wellington as part of a cooperation program between the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Victoria University .

Together with Charles W. Calomiris , Stephen Haber published the book Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit in 2014 , which was named one of the outstanding books of the year by Howard Davies in the Times Higher Education (“Books of the Year 2014 ") and was listed by Martin Wolf in the Financial Times as one of the best economic books of the year (" Best Economic Books of 2014 "), and which was published in 2015 in Chinese translation.

Works (selection)

• Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940 . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1989, ISBN 978-0-8047-1487-7 .
• as editor: How Latin America Fell Behind: Essays on the Economic Histories of Brazil and Mexico, 1800–1914 . Stanford University Press, Stanford 1997, ISBN 978-0-8047-2738-9 .
• with Armando Razo and Noel Maurer: The Politics of Property Rights: Political Instability, Credible Commitments, and Economic Growth in Mexico, 1876–1929 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-521-60354-6 .
• with Douglass North and Barry R. Weingast as editors: Political Institutions and Financial Development . Stanford University Press, Stanford 2008, ISBN 978-0-8047-5693-8 .
• with Herbert S. Klein , Noel Maurer and Kevin J. Middlebrook : Mexico Since 1980 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-60887-9 .
• with Charles W. Calomiris : Fragile By Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit . Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford 2014, ISBN 978-0-691-15524-1 .

Web links

• Personal website
• Home page on the Stanford University website