{{short description|American economic historian}} {{Infobox economist | name = Price V. Fishback | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!-- (use {{coord …}}) --> | nationality = | citizenship = United States | spouse = <!-- or: spouses --> | website = <!-- {{URL|example.com}} --> | institution = University of Arizona | field = Economic History<br>Labor Economics<br>Political Economy<br>Law and Economics | school_tradition = | alma_mater = University of Washington<br>Butler University | doctoral_advisor = Robert Higgs | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | influences = | influenced = | contributions = | awards = | memorials = | repec_prefix = | repec_id = | module = | signature = <!-- filename only --> | notes = <!-- or: footnotes --> }} '''Price V. Fishback''' (born c. 1955) is an American economic historian. He is a professor of economics at the University of Arizona and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research on American economic history has included employment and labor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries especially in the coal industry, and government programs of the New Deal. His work has been recognised by the Cliometric Society via their awarding him a ''Clio Can'' in recognition of his "exceptional support of cliometrics".<ref>[https://econ.arizona.edu/people/price-v-fishback University of Arizona: Price V. Fishback] (Accessed Jan 2016)</ref><ref>[http://www.nber.org/people/price_fishback National Bureau of Economic Research: Price V. Fishback] (Accessed Dec 2011)</ref> Prior to arriving to the University of Arizona, Fishback was an Assistant and later Associate Professor at the University of Georgia.
==Education== Fishback received a B.A. with honors in Mathematics and Economics from Butler University in 1977. He then received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1979 and 1983, respectively. His Ph.D. Thesis was entitled "Employment Conditions of Blacks in the Coal Industry, 1900-1930." His advisor was Robert Higgs.<ref>{{cite web |title=PRICE VANMETER FISHBACK |url=https://econ.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/persons/fishback.vita_.online2017.09.22.pdf |website=University of Arizona: Department of Economics}}</ref>
==Selected publications== *{{cite book |last=Fishback |first=P. V. |first2=Shawn E. |last2=Kantor |year=2000 |title=Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation |location=Chicago |publisher=University of Chicago Press }} *{{cite book |last=Fishback |first=P. V. |year=1992 |title=Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890 to 1930 |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press }} * ''Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership'', with Jonathan Rose and Kenneth Snowden. 2013. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. * "The Newest on the New Deal" ''Essays in Economic & Business History'' 36(1) (2018) covers distribution and impact of spending and lending programs; [http://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/journal/article/view/425 online]
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== External links == * [https://econ.arizona.edu/people/price-v-fishback Price V. Fishback], Department of Economics, University of Arizona * [http://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=703 Price V. Fishback] at The Independent Institute
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