Naomi Raboy Lamoreaux (born 1950) is an American economic historian, specializing in US business and technological history. She is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History of Economics and History at

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and an emeritus professor at UCLA and Research Associate at the

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. 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''. Lamoreaux was elected to the presidencies of both the

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and the

Economic History Association The Economic History Association (EHA) was founded in 1940 to "encourage and promote teaching, research, and publication on every phase of economic history and to help preserve and administer materials for research in economic history". It publi ...

. She has been awarded several prizes for her academic work including the Arthur Cole article prize and the

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's Clio Can. She has served on the editorial boards for numerous journals in the field of economic history, including the ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Essays in Economic and Business History'', and ''Capitalism and History''.

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 PressPerkins, 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.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lamoreaux, Naomi 1950 births Living people Yale University faculty American economic historians Social Science Research Council Presidents of the Economic History Association