Warren Whatley Explained

Warren C. Whatley
Awards:	Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in American economic history, 1983
Repec Id:	pwh40
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Doctoral Advisor:	Paul A. David Donald J. Harris Gavin Wright
Alma Mater:	Stanford University (MA), 1978; (PhD), 1982 Shaw University (BA), 1972
Institution:	University of Michigan
Field:	Economic History Economic development
Citizenship:	United States
Website:	https://lsa.umich.edu/econ/people/emeriti/warren-whatley.html

Warren C. Whatley is an American economist who is emeritus professor of economics at the University of Michigan.^[1] He is a former president of the National Economic Association.^[2]

Education and early life

Whatley graduated from Shaw University in 1972 and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1982. In 1983, the Economic History Association awarded him the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History the previous year.^[3]

Career

Whatley taught at the University of Michigan from 1981 to 2016. He was a professor of both economics and AfroAmerican and African Studies.

Selected publications

• Whatley, Warren C. "Labor for the picking: The New Deal in the South." Journal of Economic History (1983): 905–929.
• Whatley, Warren C. "African-American Strikebreaking from the Civil War to the New Deal." Social Science History 17, no. 4 (1993): 525–558.
• Whatley, Warren C. "Southern agrarian labor contracts as impediments to cotton mechanization." Journal of Economic History (1987): 45–70.
• Whatley, Warren, and Rob Gillezeau. "The impact of the transatlantic slave trade on ethnic stratification in Africa." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (2011): 571–76.
• Whatley, Warren C. "A history of mechanization in the cotton South: The institutional hypothesis." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 100, no. 4 (1985): 1191–1215.

External links

• "The Atlantic Slave Trade", Washington University in St. Louis’ Center for New Institutional Social Sciences (CNISS) lecture, April 22, 2011

Notes and References

1. Web site: Warren Whatley U-M LSA Department of Economics. 2021-02-12. lsa.umich.edu. en.
2. January 4, 2020. National Economic Association 50th Anniversary Celebration and Honors Luncheon.
3. Web site: Allen Nevins Prize 1971 – 1997. 2021-02-12. eh.net.