Department of Economics
3004G Business Administration Bldg.
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH  43403-0268

Phone: (419) 372-8397
Fax: (419) 372-1557
E-mail: sjmeard@bgsu.edu

Education:

• Ph.D., Duke University, Economics, 1999
• M.A., Duke University, Economics , 1997
• B.A., Bowdoin College, Economics, 1993

Research and Teaching Interests:

• International Trade
• History of Economics
• Economic History
• Economic Geography
• Latin American Economic Development
• Macroeconomics

Selected Publications:

• "Postbellum Protection and Commissioner Wells’s Conversion to Free Trade.” History of Political Economy 40(1), forthcoming, 2008.
• "Richard Cobden's American Quandary: Negotiating Peace, Free Trade, and Anti-Slavery.” In Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan, eds., Rethinking Nineteenth Century Liberalism: Richard Cobden Bicentenary Essays, Ashgate, pp. 203-22, 2006.
• “How TRIPs Got Legs: Copyright, Trade Policy, and the Role of Government in 19th-Century American Economic Thought.”  History of Political Economy 37(5): pp. 140-69, 2005.
• “The Interesting Narrative of a Duke-trained Historian of Economics, from Prospectus to Ph.D. to Profession; or, How I Learned to Love Weintraub and Start Worrying.” History of Political Economy 34(5): pp. 272-83, 2002.
• “On the New Economic Geography and the Progress of Geographical Economics.” In Stephan Böhm, Christian Gehrke, Heinz Kurz, and Richard Sturn, eds., Is There Progress in Economics?  Knowledge, Truth and the History of Economic Thought, pp. 217-39. Northampton, MA:  Edward Elgar, 2002.
• “Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country: Gunnar Myrdal, François Perroux, and the New Economic Geography.”   American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60(1): pp. 25-57, 2001.
• “Eclecticism, Inconsistency, and Innovation in the History of  Geographical Economics.” History of Political Economy 32(5): pp. 325-59, 2000.
• “Archiving the History of Economics,” with E. Roy Weintraub, Ted Gayer, and Spencer Banzhaf. Journal of Economic Literature 36(3): pp. 1496-1501, 1998.
• “The International Dimension of American Economic Thought,” with Craufurd Goodwin. In Malcolm Rutherford ed., The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History of American Economics, pp. 295-324. U.K.: Routledge, 1998.
• “Self-Command in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments,” with Andreas Ortmann.  Rationality and Society 8(1): pp. 57-80, 1996.
• "A Game-Theoretic Re-Interpretation of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations,” with Andreas Ortmann. In Ingra Rima ed., The Classical Tradition in Economic Thought, pp. 43-61. Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1995.

Competitive Awards:

• 2008 - Fulbright lecture/research fellowship, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (Jan.-June 2008). Project: “Reciprocity in Retrospect: Bilateralism and Trade in the United States and Colombia, 1824-1898.”
• 2004 - Fletcher Family Research Grant, Bowdoin College. Richard Cobden Bicentenary Conference, Midhurst, West Sussex, U.K.
• 2003 - Fletcher Family Research Grant, Bowdoin College. British Library; West Sussex Record Office; and ECHE 2004 conference, Reims, France.

Professional Affiliations

• History of Economics Society
• Economic History Association
• Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association
• New England Council of Latin American Studies