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Price Fishback

Frank and Clara Kramer Professor of Economics
Department of Economics

Dr. Price Fishback is the Frank and Clara Kramer Professor of Economics at The University of Arizona and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has won several teaching awards in the MBA program at The University of Arizona.

Fishback received his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Washington in 1983. After working at the University of Georgia and the University of Texas in the 1980s, he moved to The University of Arizona in 1990. He is currently working with a series of coauthors on examining the politics and economics associated with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Great Depression, measuring the impact of World War II spending on local economies in the 1940s, and performing studies of state labor legislation during the Progressive Era in the early 1900s. He worked with 15 of the leading economic historians in the United States to write Government and the American Economy: A New History, released in April 2007 from the University of Chicago Press. His 2000 book (with Shawn Kantor), A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation, was awarded a Paul Samuelson Certificate of Excellence by the TIAA-CREF Institute and the Lester Prize by the Industrial Relations Group at Princeton University.

Since 1996, Fishback has been heavily involved in running the Cliometrics Conference, an economic history conference funded by the National Science Foundation. In 2002 he received the Cliometric Society’s highest award for exceptional service. In 2006, he was elected a Trustee of the Economic History Association.

Fishback’s earlier research includes books and articles on labor market discrimination, segregated schools, workplace safety regulation, workers’ compensation, wage compensation for accepting accident risks, coal miners, the operations of labor markets, interest group politics, strike activity, violence in strikes, and company towns. He has also consulted for the insurance and horse racing industries on the economics of accident liability.

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