Michael
Edelstein
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Professor of Economics, Queens
College and The Graduate
School, City
University of New
York
Michael.Edelstein@qc.cuny.edu
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Ph. D. Economic History, University
of Pennsylvania, 1970
A. M. Economics, University of Chicago, 1964
A. B. History, University
of Chicago, 1962
Curriculum Vitae: pdf
Research Interests: The markets for engineers, scientists and
technicians in the USA,
Europe and Australia in
the 19th and 20th Centuries; war economies of the USA
in the 20th Century; British capital markets in the 19th
Century; the economics of the 19th Century British empire; modern
economic growth in the USA
and Europe.
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Datasets and Working
Papers
The Realized Rate of Return to 703 UK
Home and Foreign Equity, Preference and Debenture Securities, 1870-1913: Data Sources,
Description and EXCEL Instructions.
Realized Returns (IRRR) to 703 UK
Home and Foreign Equity, Preference and Debenture Securities, 1870-1913: Return
Data by Security Name, Type, Sector, Sub-sector, Country and Year.
The Production of Engineers in New York Colleges and
Universities, 1800-1950: Data Sources and
Description
The Production of Engineers in New York Colleges and
Universities, 1800-1950: Data
Selected Publications
Books
Overseas Investment in
the Age of High Imperialism: The U.K.,
1850-1914. (New York: Columbia University
Press; London: Methuen; 1982)
Articles
“The Production of Engineers in New York Colleges and
Universities, 1800-1950: Some New Data,” Ch. 6 in David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis,
and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (eds), Human Capital and Institutions. A Long-Run
View. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2009. Pp. 179-217.
“International
Transactions and Foreign Commerce,” in Chapter Ee (“International Trade and
Exchange Rates”) of Historical Statistics of the United
States. Earliest Times to the Present
Millennial Edition. Vol. 5. Part E: Governance and International Relations.
Cambridge UK
& New York NY:
Cambridge University
Press, 2006. Pps. 441 –444; 452–497.
“Was Adherence to the
Gold Standard a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” during the Interwar
Period,” Ch. 10 in Stanley L. Engerman, Philip T. Hoffman, Jean-Laurent
Rosenthal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff (eds.), Finance, Intermediaries, and
Economic Development. New York NY:
Cambridge University
Press, 2003. Pp. 288-318.
"The Size of the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II: Feasibility and War Planning," Research
in Economic History, Vol. 20, 2001, 47-98.
"War and the
American Economy in the Twentieth Century," Ch.
6 in Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. (eds.), The
Cambridge Economic History of the United
States. Volume III. The Twentieth Century.
New York NY: Cambridge
University Press, 2000.
Pp. 329-406.
"Were U.
S. Rates of Accumulation in the 20th Century
Investment or Savings Driven?" Research
in Economic History, 1991.
"What Price Cold
War? Military Expenditures and Private Investment in the United States,
1890-1980," Cambridge
Journal of Economics, December 1990.
"Professional
Engineers and the Australian Economy, 1866-1980," Ch.
13 in David Pope and Lee Alston (eds.), Australia's
Greatest Asset (Annandale NSW: The Federation Press, 1989). Also Australian
Economic History Review, September 1988.
The Flow of New,
Tertiary Qualified Engineers in Australia
1866-1980 (Canberra: Source Paper No. 18, Department of Economic History, The
Australian National University, 1988).
Copyright: Michael Edelstein