Naomi Lamoreaux
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Biography
Naomi Lamoreaux is an American Economic Historian. She is a professor of Economics and History at Yale University, is an emeritus professor at UCLA and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She has worked widely on business, economic, and financial history with perhaps her most noted works being her 1988 book The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904 and her 1996 book Insider Lending:Banks, Personal Connections and her Economic Development in Industrial New England. Professor Lamoreaux was elected to the presidencies of both the Business History Conference and the Economic History Association. She has been awarded several prizes for her academic work including the Arthur Cole article prize and the Cliometric Society's Clio Can.
Selected publications
- Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (1988) The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904, Cambridge University Press
- Lamoreaux, Naomi R. (1996) Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England, Cambridge University Press
- Cain, L. P.,(1986). Review of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904. The Business History Review, 60, 1, 132-134.
- Ulen, T. S., (1987). Review of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904. Journal of Economic Literature, 25, 2, 756-757
- James, J. A.,(1986). Review of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904. Journal of Economic History, 46, 2, 561-563.
- Menard, R. R.,(1996). Review of Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 27, 2, 345-346.
- Keehn, R. H., (1995). Review of Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. The Business History Review, 69, 2, 256-258
- Perkins, E. J., (1996). Review of Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England. The American Historical Review, 101, 1, 239-240.