Jeremy Atack (born 16 January 1949) received his B.A. from Jesus College of the

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in 1971 and his Ph.D. from

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in 1976. He is Research Professor Emeritus of Economics at

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, a research associate at the

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, a Fellow of the

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, and was the Kinkhead Research Scholar at the

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(1992-1993). He is a noted academic economic historian whose primary research focus is on 19th century US industrialization. He has been president of the

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(2011–12), the Agricultural History Society (2002-3) and the

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(1999). Atack has won five research grants from the

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and received the Clio Can award from the Cliometric Society in recognition of his work in

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Selected publications

* Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century United States Manufacturing, New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1985, pp. 246. * To Their Own Soil: American Agriculture in the Antebellum North, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1987, pp. 327 (with Fred Bateman). Republished 2002. * A New Economic View of American History. NY: W.W. Norton, 1994, 2nd edition, pp 714 (with Peter Passell)

References

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