# Jeremy Atack

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{{Short description|American economic historian}}
'''Jeremy Atack''' (born 16 January 1949) received his B.A. from Jesus College of the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge) in 1971 and his Ph.D. from [Indiana University Bloomington](/source/Indiana_University_Bloomington) in 1976. He is Research Professor Emeritus of Economics at [Vanderbilt University](/source/Vanderbilt_University), a research associate at the [National Bureau of Economic Research](/source/National_Bureau_of_Economic_Research),  a Fellow of the [Cliometric Society](/source/Cliometric_Society), and was the Kinkhead Research Scholar at the [University of Illinois](/source/University_of_Illinois) (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 [Economic History Association](/source/Economic_History_Association) (2011–12), the Agricultural History Society (2002-3) and the [Business History Conference](/source/Business_History_Conference) (1999).<ref>[http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/faculty/Atack/atackj.htm Vanderbilt University: Atack] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310002402/http://www.vanderbilt.edu/Econ/faculty/Atack/atackj.htm |date=2012-03-10 }} (Accessed Dec 2011)</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://eh.net/eha/about/officers-and-board |title=The Economic History: Association: 2011-2012 EHA Officers and Board of Trustees |access-date=2011-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111127003343/http://www.eh.net/eha/about/officers-and-board |archive-date=2011-11-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Atack has won five research grants from the [National Science Foundation](/source/National_Science_Foundation) and received the Clio Can award from the Cliometric Society in recognition of his work in [cliometrics](/source/cliometrics).

==Selected publications==
* Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century United States Manufacturing, New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1985, pp.&nbsp;246.
* To Their Own Soil: American Agriculture in the Antebellum North, Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1987, pp.&nbsp;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)

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