Price V. Fishback

Price V. Fishback (born c. 1955) is a noted economic historian. He is a professor of Economics at the University of Arizona an a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research has investigated various themes particularly different aspects US labour markets in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (in particular in the coal industry) and Roosevelt’s New Deal. His work has been recognised by The Cliometric Society via their awarding him a Clio Can in recognition his of exceptional support of cliometrics.^[1][2]

Selected publications

• Fishback, P. V.; Kantor, Shawn E. (2000). Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
• Fishback, P. V. (1992). Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890 to 1930. New York: Oxford University Press. 

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