| Lee James Alston | |
| Birth Date: | 1951 3, mf=yes |
| Birth Place: | Port Washington, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Fields: | Economic history |
| Workplaces: | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| Alma Mater: | Indiana University, Bloomington, University of Washington |
| Thesis Title: | Cost of contracting and decline or tennancy in the South, 1930-1960 |
| Thesis Url: | https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/714810019 |
| Thesis Year: | 1978 |
| Awards: | Cliometric Society Award in 2012, past president of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics |
Lee J. Alston (born March 29, 1951) is the Ostrom Chair, Professor of Economics and Law, and Director of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.[1] On August 6, 2014, Alston was appointed director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, from which he received his B.A. in 1973.[2] His research has focused on institutions and contracts and their role in influencing rural land use in the US and Brazil.[3] In 2012 Alston was awarded a Clio Can award by the Cliometric Society for Exceptional Support to the Field of Cliometrics.[4]