Lee J. Alston (born March 29, 1951) is the Ostrom Chair, Professor of

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. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. On August 6, 2014, Alston was appointed director of the

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and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, from which he received his B.A. in 1973. His research has focused on institutions and contracts and their role in influencing rural

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in the US and Brazil. In 2012 Alston was awarded a ''Clio'' ''Can'' award by the

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for ''Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics''.The Cliometrics Society:Awards
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Selected publications

* Alston, Lee J., and Gary D. Libecap. (1996) "The determinants and impact of property rights: land titles on the Brazilian frontier." ''Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization'' 12.1 pp25–61. * Alston, Lee J., Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller. (1999) ''Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier''. University of Michigan Press

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alston, Lee J 1951 births Living people American economic historians Indiana University faculty Economists from Wisconsin People from Port Washington, Wisconsin 21st-century American economists Presidents of the Economic History Association