Research
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John Joseph Wallis Research |
Research Interests
My major area of research is Economic History with concentration in the following areas:Working Papers
Recent Working Papers
"Governments and States: Organizations, Politics, and Social Dynamics." With Douglass North.
"The Economics of Civil Society." With Naomi Lamoureaux
"The Constitution of Coercion: Wicksell, Violence, and the Ordering of Society.
" In Coercion and Social Welfare in Contemporary Public Finance, Jorge Martinez and Stanley Winer. Ed. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2012."Persistence and Change in Institutions: the Evolution of Douglass C. North
." In Economic Institutions, Rights, Growth, and Sustainability: Essays in Honor of Douglass North, Itai Sened and Sebastian Galiani, Ed. Forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2012."Developing the Subnational Debt Market: Lessons from the United States." With Lili Liu, World Bank research paper.
"The Special Nature of General Laws in American History." With Jessica Hennessey
"Founding Errors: Making Democracy Safe for America" [pdf file], December 2008.
"Why Competitive Markets Aren't Self-Actuating: The Political Economy of Open Access." [pdf file] Manufacturing Markets Conference, Florence, May 2009.
"Stones, Bones, and States" with Richard Steckel, working paper, April 2007, [pdf file].
"A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History", April 2005 [pdf file], with Douglass North and Barry Weingast, NBER Working Paper, w12785, December 2006.
Published Papers:
"The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American Political and Economic History", Goldin and Glaeser, ed. Corruption and Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-62, 2006.
"Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America’s Social Welfare System during the New Deal." With Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor. Goldin and Glaeser, ed. Corruption and Reform. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 343-372, 2006.
"Dysfunctional or Optimal Institutions: State Debt Limitations, the Structure of State and Local Governments, and the Finance of American Infrastructure." With Barry R. Weingast. In Garrett, Grady, and Jackson, ed. Fiscal Challenges: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Budget Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
"Answering Mary Shirley’s Question or: What Can the World Bank Learn from American History?" Haber, Weingast, and North, ed. Political Institutions and Financial Development. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 92-124, 2008.
"Violence and Social Orders." With Douglass C. North and Barry Weingast. Brian Levy, ed. Governance, Growth and Development Decision-Making. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2008.
"The Other Foundings: Federalism and the Constitutional Structure of American Government." Richard Sylla and Doug Irwin, ed. Founding Choices: American Economic Policy in the 1790s. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 177-216, 2011.
"Why aren’t Competitive Markets Self-Sustaining?" Eric Brousseau and Jean-Michel Glachant eds. Manufacturing Markets. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2011.
"Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Infrastructure Investment in the Antebellum Era", (with B. R. Weingast), May 2005 [PDF file]
"American Government and the Promotion of Economic Development In the National Era, 1790 to 1860", January 2004 [pdf file]
"Constitutions, Corporations, and Corruption: American States and Constitutional Change, 1842 to 1852", Journal of Economic History, January 2005 [pdf file]
"The Property Tax as a Coordinating Device: Financing Indiana’s Mammoth Internal Improvement System, 1835 to 1842", Explorations in Economic History, July, 2003 [PDF file]
"Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America’s Social Welfare System during the New Deal" (with P. Fishback and S. Kantor), Explorations in Economic History, July, 2003 [pdf file]
"Sovereign Default and Repudiation: The Emerging-Market Debt Crisis in U.S. States, 1839-1843", 2004 [pdf file]
"The Market for American State Government Bonds in Britain and the United States, 1830 to 1843" [PDF file] EHR, November 2005. The following notice must accompany the PDF on the Contributing Author’s website: ‘This is an electronic version of an article published in The Economic History Review: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of The Economic History Review, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal’s website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ehr or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.
"The Political Economy of New Deal Spending Revisited, Again: With and Without Nevada." Explorations in Economic History, 35 (2) April 1998.[pdf file]