Price V. Fishback

Price V. Fishback (born c. 1955) is an economic historian. He is a professor of Economics at the University of Arizona and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research on American economic history has included employment and labor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries especially the coal industry, and government programs of the New Deal. His work has been recognised by Cliometric Society via their awarding him a Clio Can in recognition his of exceptional support of cliometrics.

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. 
• Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership, with Jonathan Rose and Kenneth Snowden. 2013. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.