Alfred D. Chandler Lecture in
Southern Business History

Alfred D. Chandler Lecture in Southern Business History
"Wait a Cotton Pickin' Minute!" A New View of Changing Slave Efficiency
Alan Olmstead, University of California-Davis
April 19, 2005
3:00 pm
569 Hamilton
UNC Campus
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments served.

Alan L. Olmstead is Director of the Institute of Governmental Affairs and Professor of Economics and at the University of California at Davis. He was recently elected Vice President of the Economic History Association.

Professor Olmstead’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of technological and institutional changes. His work has appeared in a number of scholarly publications, including Science, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Economic History, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Human Resources, and Agricultural History. He is currently one of six Editors-in-Chief of the forthcoming Historical Statistics of the United States to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2005.

Professor Olmstead is a former National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and has held visiting scholar appointments in Spain, France, and Italy. He is a past recipient of the Vernon Carstensen the Wayne D. Rasmussen Awards presented by the Agricultural History Society and the Arthur H. Cole Award presented by the Economic History Association. In 1999 he was honored by the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society as its inaugural Alan Lloyd Fellow.