Research

Research Focus

Economic History, Public Economics

Current Research

Causes and effects of social spending, redistribution, and inequality.  See also the new web site of the Global Price and Income History Group for a growing array of downloadable files of historical data.

Working Papers

http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pli466.htm

Representative Research Papers

** Peter H. Lindert. 2021. Making Social Spending Work. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

** Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. 2016. Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

** Jan Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, Peter Lindert, and Jeffrey Madrick, 2016. How Big Should Our Government Be? Berkeley: University of California Press.

** “Private Welfare and the Welfare State”. In Larry Neal and Jeffrey. G. Williamson (eds.), The Cambridge History of Capitalism: Volume 2: The Spread of Capitalism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, Chapter 14, pp. 464-500.

** Peter H. Lindert and Steven Nafziger. 2014. “Russian Inequality on the Eve of Revolution”. Journal of Economic History 74, 3 (September): 767-798.

** Peter H. Lindert and Jeffrey G. Williamson. “American Incomes before and after the Revolution”. Journal of Economic History 73, 3 (September 2013): 725-765.

** Branko Milanovic, Jeffrey G. Williamson, and Peter H. Lindert. 2011. “Preindustrial Inequality.” 2011. Economic Journal 121 (March): 255-272.

** Sun Go and Peter H. Lindert. “The Uneven Rise of American Public Schools to 1850.” 2010. Journal of Economic History 70, 1 (March): 1-26.

** Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. Two Volumes. Cambridge University Press, 2004.Translations to other languages: (a) Välfädsstatens expansion (in Swedish, 2005), (b) Spesa sociale e crescita (in Italian, 2007), (c) El ascenso del sector público (in Spanish, 2011).

Translations to other languages: (a) Välfädsstatens expansion (in Swedish, 2005), (b) Spesa sociale e crescita (in Italian, 2007), (c) El ascenso del sector público (in Spanish, 2011).

** Download the “cv” for a fuller list of scholarly works.