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Fred V. Carstensen Curriculum Vitae

Address: 3 Mallard Drive Department of Economics

Bloomfield, CT 06002-2227 University of Connecticut

Storrs, CT 06269-1063

Phone: (860) 243-8485 (860) 486-0614

FAX (860) 486-446

e-mail: fred.carstensen@att.net

Research Interests: American, British, Russian, and Mexican economic and business

history; comparative economic development; political economy; public

policy analysis.

Education: B.A. (History) University of Wisconsin, 1966

M.A. (Economics) Yale University, 1969

Ph.D. (History/Economic History) Yale University, 1976

Professional Positions:

1997- : Director, Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis, University of Connecticut

1995- : Professor, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut

1992-2002 : Adjunct Professor, MBA Program, University of Connecticut

1999 (Spring Term, 1991 (Fall Term); 1985 (Spring Term): Shelby Cullom Davis Visiting

Professor of Business and Entrepreneurial History, Trinity College.

1995-1997: Visiting Scholar, Faculty Affiliate, David Rockefeller Institute for Latin

American Studies, Harvard University

1995-1997: Fellow, American National Biography Project, American Council of Learned

Societies and Oxford University Press

1987-1995: Director, Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, University of

Connecticut.

1985-1995: Consultant, The Winthrop Group, Cambridge, MA

1982-1995: Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut

1976-1982: Consultant, Corporate Archives, International Harvester Co., Chicago, IL

1975-1982: Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Virginia.

1972-1975: Instructor, Social Science Collegiate Division, The College, University of Chicago.

Publications: Organized by topics:

Multinational Enterprise and Russian Economic Development:

Books:

American Enterprise Abroad: Case Studies of Singer and International Harvester in

Imperial Russia. University of North Carolina Press, 1984. 269 pp. + bibliography + index.

Edited (with Gregory Guroff). Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet

Union. Princeton University Press, 1983. 360 pp. + index.

Articles:

“Singer Begins Manufacturing Sewing Machines in Russia.” Great Events from

History II: Business and Commerce. Los Angeles, Salem Press, 1994. Pp. 103-106.

With Dennis M. P. McCarthy. “Singer and International Harvester in Late Imperial Russia.” In International Business History: A Contextual and Case Approach. Dennis M. P. McCarthy, Editor. Praeger, Westport, CT, 1994. Pp. 73-82.

With Richard H. Werking. “International Harvester in Russia: The Washington-St. Petersburg Connection?” Business History Review 57 (1983):347-66.

With Gregory Guroff. “Economic Innovation in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union: Observations.” In Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (1983), pp. 346-60.

“Foreign Enterprise and Russian Economic Development: Notes on British Participation: 1870-1914.” In Entrepreneurship in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union (1983), pp. 140-58.

“Numbers and Reality: A critique of foreign investment estimates in Tsarist Russia.” In La position internationale de la France: Aspects economiques et financiers XIX-XX siecles. Edited by Maurice Levy-Leboyer. Paris, 1978. Pp. 275-83.

“American Multinational Corporations in Imperial Russia.” Journal of Economic History 37 (1977):245-48.

Yucatecan (Mexican) Economic History:

Articles:

With Diane Roazen. “Foreign markets, Domestic Initiative, and the Emergence of a Monocrop Economy: The Yucatecan Experience: 1825-1903.” Hispanic American Historical Review 72:4 (Nov., 1992): 555-92.

With Diane Roazen. “International Harvester, Molina y Compania, and the Henequen Market: A Comment.” Latin American Research Review 18 (1983):3:197-202. Spanish translation published in Yucatan y la International Harvester Compania: Continua la debatida cuestion henequenera, Merida, Yucatan, 1986.

Political Economy and Economic Development:

Articles:

“Jurisprudence, Expected Value, and the Culture of Innovation.” Cultural Factors in Economic

Growth. Edited by M.C. Casson, A. Godley. Berlin, Spriknger-Verlag, 1999

“How Much Government.” Business Tech International I:7 (October/November, 1992):

11-12.

“Why Government.” Business Tech International I:6 (August/September, 1992):6-7.

“Capitalism.” Business Tech International I:4 (April, 1992):11-13.

With Morris Morris. “Credit, Infrastructure and Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Developing Regions.” Journal of Economic History 38 (1978):262-65.

Bibliographic essay:

“Civil Authority and the Articulation of Markets: A Review Essay on Regulation and the Economy.” Critical Review, (:4 (Fall, 1995): 585-94. Review essay of Regulating a New Economy: Public Policy and Economic Change in America, by Morton Keller (Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press, 1990), and Second Thoughts: Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History, edited by Donald McCloskey (New York, Oxford University Press, 1993).

American Business History/Business Biography:

Articles:

“Cyrus McCormick.” The Oxford Companion to United States History. Oxford University Press. In press.

“Agricultural Implements.” Dictionary of Chicago History. Chicago Historical Society. In press.

Biographies of 11 American business leaders, Dictionary of American Biography:

Supplements 10-14. Kenneth T. Jackson, editor. New York, Charles Scribner's

Sons. 1998-1999. List on Request

Biographies of 34 American business leaders. American National Biography.

John Garraty, editor. Sponsored by the American Council of Learned

Societies. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. List on request.

With Eldon Bernstein. “Rising to the Occasion: Lenders’ Bagels and the Rise of the

Frozen Food Revolution, 1928-1985.” Business and Economic History. 25:1

(1996).

With Eldon Bernstein. Biographies of 5 American business leaders, Dictionary of

American Biography: Supplement 9 & 10. Kenneth T. Jackson, editor. New

York, Charles Scribner's Sons. 1999. List on Request.

“International Harvester and Its Competitors.” In International Banking: 1870-1914. Rondo Cameron, V.A. Bovykin, editors. Oxford University Press. 1991.

Pp. 399-416.

“Industrial evolution to bigness.” Historical Atlas of the United States. National

Geographical Society, 1988. Pp. 152-153. Prepared maps, text.

With Richard W. Werking. “The Process of Bureaucratization in the U.S. State Department and the Vesting of Economic Interests: Muddled Thinking and Missing History.” Administrative Science Quarterly 28 (1983):56-60.

“'. . . a dishonest man is at least prudent.' George W. Perkins and the International Harvester Steel Properties.” Business and Economic History (2nd series) 9 (1980):87-102.

“Labor Unions and Labor Management: 1900-1930: A Comment.” Business and Economic History (2nd series) 11 (1982):159-61.

Bibliographic essay:

“Perspectives on Crisis and Competition: Enterprise Studies as Public History” The Public Historian 12:3 (1990):121-24. Review essay of And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline of the American Steel Industry, by John P. Hoerr (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988), The Fall of the Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics, by Peter Temin with Louis Galambos (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1987), and From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformation of Alcoa, 1888-1986, by George David Smith (New York, Cambridge University Press, 1988).

Reputation and Performance in the Economics Profession:

Articles:

With John Golden. “Twentieth Century Publication Performance in Five Leading Economics

Journals, A Comment.” American Economist. Forthcoming

With John Golden. “Academic Research Productivity, Department Size, and Organization: Further Results, Comment.” Economics of Education Review 11:2 (June, 1992),

153-60.

With John Golden. “Academic Research Productivity, Department Size, and Organization: Further Results, Rejoinder.” Economics of Education Review 11:2 (June, 1992),

169-71.

With John Golden, Paul Weiner, Steve Kane. “Modeling the Ratings Game: Publication Performance, Departmental Characteristics, and Graduate Faculty Ratings in Economics. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Business. 28 (1988):101-109.

With John Golden, Paul Weiner. “An Evaluation of 50 'Ranked' Economics Departments - By Quantity and Quality of Faculty Publications and Graduate Student Placement and Research Success: A Comment.” Southern Economic Journal, 54:1 (1987):212-15.

With John Golden, Paul Weiner, Steven Kane. “Publication Performance of Fifty Top Economics Departments: A Per Capita Analysis.” Economics of Education Review 5:1 (1986):83-86.

With John Golden, Paul Weiner. “Recent Publication Performance in Economics: An Abstract Approach.” Quarterly Journal of Economics and Business 24 (1984):93-98.

Other/Miscellaneous:

Books:

Co-edited with Morton Rothstein, Joseph Swanson. Outstanding in His Field: Essays in Honor of Wayne Rasmussen. Iowa State University Press, 1993.

Articles:

“William Lazonick.” Leading Economists of the Late Twentieth Century. Edited by

Warren Samuels. Elgar, 1999.

“An Interview with Stanley Lebergott.” The Newsletter of the Cliometric Society 7:2 (July, 1992): 3-6, 17-21.

With Randall C. Jimerson. “New Research Uses for Old Business Records” Harvest: 20 (Spring, 1990): 1-3.

With Seymour Goodman. “Trouble on the Auction Block: Interregional Slave Sales and the Reliability of a Linear Equation.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 8 (1977):315-18.

Bibliographic Essay:

“Economics: A Proper Subset of History? A review essay on Economic History and the Modern Economist.” Market Process 5:1 (1987):11.

Technical Reports:

As Director of the Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis, I participate with my professional staff and student researchers to produce numerous policy and economic impact reports annually. Many are available on the CCEA website: http://ccea.uconn.edu. I also frequently provide public or legislative testimony relating to these reports.

**A note on the professional capabilites of CCEA: Commonly CCEA studies evaluate the economic impacts of a given activity, proposed investment, or policy proposal in terms of projected long-term growth (over a baseline forecast) of personal income, gross regional product, and population, together with rates of job creation and both gross and net fiscal impacts on state and local government. Studies such as the Competitiveness Index and MetroHartford Regional Benchmark look specifically to assessing the ability of the state of retain or attract businesses. The CCEA study of the child care industry in Connecticut estimated the impact of that sector on the availability of labor, and thus on the wage rates and competitiveness of the Connecticut business environment. CCEA did a comprehensive analysis of the impact of all Connecticut business taxes for the period 1992-2002 to evaluate their effectiveness in fulfilling their objective. CCEA has done a comprehensive assessment of local tax burden, segmented by income level and household type, for the Connecticut Conference of Municipalities. Many of the CCEA studies have required an ability to translate non-pecuniary activities, such as volunteer work in community organizations by Pfizer employees, or amenity values such as that provided by cultural institutions into money equivalents to provide a meaningful measure of economic impact. [Forty-three CCEA studies are available through the CCEA website: http://ccea.uconn.edu.]**

“A Policy for the Encouragement of Science and Technology as Stimulus to Economic

Development in the State of Connecticut.” One of eight co-respondents: Dr. Harvey

Sadow, Chair. Ad Hoc Committee on a State Science and Technology Policy,

Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 1992.

“Roundtable on Technology Transfer: Enhancing the Preservation and Utilization of

Competitive Manufacturing Technologies in Connecticut.” Connecticut Academy of

Science and Engineering, 1992.

“Technology Transfer in Connecticut.” One of six co-respondents: Dr. L.W. Steele, Chair. Working Group on Technology Transfer, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, 1991.

Book Reviews:

47 reviews + 17 booknotes published in the following journals:

Agricultural History

American Historical Review

Business History (UK)

Business History Review

Canadian American Slavic Studies

Chicago History

Economic History Review

Economics of Education Review

Explorations in Economic History

Journal of American History

Journal of Business

Journal of Economic History

Journal of Economic Literature

Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Russian History/Histoire Russe

Slavic Review

Slavonic and East European Review

Social Science History

Vermont History

Virginia Quarterly

Ten representative reviews:

Learning and Technological Change. Edited by Ross Thomson. New York, St.

Martin's Press, 1994. Journal of Economic Literature XXXIII (March, 1995): 84-85.

A Corporate Tragedy: The Agony of International Harvester Company. By Barbara Marsh. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1985. Journal of Economic History XLVII (1987):566-67.

Standing Guard: Protecting Foreign Capital in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. By Charles Lipson. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1985. Journal of Economic History XLVII (1987):601-602.

From the American System to Mass Production. By David A. Hounshell. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984. Business History Review 59 (1985):299-301.

The Rise of the Corporate Economy. By Leslie Hannah. London, Methuen & Co., 1976. Economic History Review 33 (1980):287-88.

St. Petersburg: Industrialization and Change. By James H. Bater. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1976. Social Science History 3 (1979):227-29.

Studies in the Russian Economy before 1914. By Olga Crisp. London, The Macmillan Press/Barnes & Noble, 1976. Journal of Economic History 37 (1977):790-91.

The Russian Rockefellers: The Saga of the Nobel Family and the Russian Oil Industry. By Robert W. Tolf. Stanford, Hoover Institution Press, 1976. Russian History/Histoire Russe 4 (1977):202-204.

Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization: 1885-1913. By John P. McKay. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1971. Slavonic and East European Review 54 (1976):297-99.

The Maturing of Multinational Enterprise: American Business Abroad

from 1914 to 1970. By Mira Wilkins. Cambridge, Harvard University Press,

1974. Journal of Business 49 (1976):114-16.

Presentations to professional groups: (since 1/1986, including participation in

conferences where that participation was by invitation only.)

As Director of the Center, I typically make 5 to 10 public presentations annually to various organizations, including two annual regional outlook conferences to which I have a long-term commitment.

Guest speaker, “The New Economy.” Rennesselear Polytechnic. April 25, 2000. Hartford, CT.

Participant, Panel on “Hartford 20/20.” The Connecticut Forum. April 6, 2000. Hartford, CT.

Chair. Plenary Session, Association of Business Historians, September 1, 1999. London,

England.

“Jurisprudence, Expected Value, and the Culture of Innovation.” Sixth Annual SEEP

Conference on Economic Ethics and Philosophy, April 3, 1998. Marienrode

Monastery, Hildersheim, Germany.

Participant, Conference:Public Policy in New England, New England Board of Higher

Education, February 24-25, 1998. Dedham, MA

“Connecticut Economic Perspective..” Connecticut’s Regional Institute for the 21^st

Century Forum, January 14, 1998. Waterbury, CT

Chair/Commentator: “Economics and History as Equal Partners in Economic History.”

Social Science History Association, 22^nd National Meetings, October 17, 1997.

Washington, DC

Commentator: “Path Dependence in Economic History: Critiques and Responses.”

Social Science History Association, 22^nd National Meetings, October 17, 1997.

Washington, DC

Commentator: “Growth and Institutions.” ASSA/Cliometric Society, January 3, 1998.

Chicago, IL

Participant, Workshop on Connecticut Towns, The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences,

August 22, 1997. Yale University, New Haven, CT

Chair/Commentator: Panel “European Business in the 19th Century.” International

Business History Conference. July 4, 1997. Glasgow, Scotland.

Chair/Commentator, Panel: “American Business and the Politics of Foreign Investment.”

Economic and Business Historical Society. April 25, 1997. Richmond, VA.

“American Economic Growth.” National Bureau of Economic Research. March 14-15,

1997. Cambridge, MA.

Commentator, “Business Strategy and Consumer Markets in Three Industrial Revolutions,”

Business History Seminar, Harvard University, December 2, 1996.

“Current Research in Economic History.” National Bureau of Economic Research.

March 30, 1996. Cambridge, MA.

“Rising to the Occasion: Lenders’ Bagels and the Frozen Food Revolution.” Business

History Conference National meetings. March 15-17, 1996. Columbus, OH.

Participant, Cliometrics Society Annual Meeting, May 17-19, 1995. Lawrence, Kansas

Speaker, “The Crucial Importance of Commerce in American History.” Mansfield

Historical Society, April 14, 1995. Mansfield Center, CT.

Commentator, “International Competition and Cooperation.” Economic History Association

National meetings, October, 1994. Cincinnati, OH.

Commentator, “Competitive Role of UK Manufacturing: A Case Analysis.” Harvard Business

School. December 13, 1993. Cambridge, MA

“Business and Community.” Keynote Address, Annual Meeting of the Vermont League of

Local Historical Societies. April 24, 1993. Brattleboro, VT

Chair/Commentator, Panel: “Organization of the Developmental State: Theory and Policy.”

Business History Conference. March 20, 1993. Cambridge. MA

Commentator, “20th-Century Agricultural Development: A Successful American Industrial

Policy.” Harvard Business School. December 7, 1992. Cambridge, MA

Commentator, “Beatrice, 1894-1990: A Study in the Creation and Destruction of Value.”

Harvard Business School. September 30, 1991. Cambridge, MA

“'. . .of those who want to own the Earth.' Was the International Harvester Merger of 1902 a

Mistake?” New England Historical Association Annual Meeting. April 20, 1991.

Worcester, MA

Participant, Conference: The State and the Market in Development. Institute for International

Studies, Brown University. April 9-10, 1991. Providence, RI

Commentator: Panel: “Industrial Dynamics in a Historical Setting.” Allied Social Science

Associations. December 30, 1990. Washington, DC

Participant, Conference: The State and the Market in Development. Institute for International

Studies, Brown University. November 2, 1990. Providence, RI

Participant, Conference on Microeconomic History. National Bureau of Economic Research.

October 26-27, 1990. Cambridge, MA

Chair/Commentator: “Teaching International Business History.” Social Science History Annual

Meetings. October 20, 1990. Minneapolis, MN

Chair/Commentator, Panel: “Agricultural Institutions and the Government.” Economic History

Association Annual Meetings. September 14, 1990. Montreal, Canada

Chair/Commentator, Panel: “Innovative Firms: Continuity and Decline.” Business History

Conference, March 24, 1990. Baltimore, MD

“Domestic Elites, Foreign Capital, and Sources of Entrepreneurship: Yucatan: 1860-1904.”

Social Science History Annual Meetings. November 19, 1989. Washington, DC

“Institutional Memory in the Post-Modern World.” American Association of Records Managers

and Archivists, WesCon Chapter. November 8, 1989. Darien, CT

“Collecting Business Documents Which Aren't There: Archives and Records Management in the

Post-Modern Era” Joint Annual Meetings, New England Archivists, Association of

Records Managers and Administrators, Boston Chapter. November 3, 1989. Cambridge,

Workshop for high school teachers on innovation and economic growth. Joint Council on

Economic Education. November 8, 1988. East Haven, CT

Panelist, panel discussion of To Their Own Soil, by Jeremy Atack. Social Science History.

November 5, 1988. Chicago, IL

“Corporate Records, Institutional Memory, and the Bottom Line.” Westchester/Connecticut

Chapter, Association of Records Managers and Administrators. October 12, 1988.

Greenwich, CT

Workshop for high school teachers on the political economy of the U.S. Constitution. Joint

Council on Economic Education. November 4, 1987. Hamden, CT

Commentator, “The Economic Order as a Constitutional Vision.” Symposium on the

Constitution, Institute for American Values. Nichols College. October 9, 1987. Dudley,

Commentator, “Institutions of Banking and Credit,” Economic History Association.

September 19, 1987. San Francisco, CA

“Enterprise Biography: The Case Study Approach to Understanding Market Process.” Center

for the Study of Market Processes, George Mason University. October 12, 1986.

Arlington, VA

Workshop on American economic history for area high school teachers. Joint Council on

Economic Education. October 9, 1986. Windsor, CT

“Imperial Russia: A Third World Economy.” American Association for the Advancement of

Slavic Studies. October 17, 1986. New Orleans, LA

Visiting Scholar, North Carolina Center for Independent Higher Education. April 7-10, 1986.

Nine lectures at Guilford College, Wake Forest University, and High Point College on

Russian economic history, Yucatecan economic development as a test case of Latin

American development patterns, and the intellectual and institutional origins of capitalism.

“Domestic Elites and Foreign Enterprise: A Mexican Case Study.” Workshop in Economic

History, Indiana University. March 13, 1986. Bloomington, IN

Grants and Fellowships: (since 1/1986 only)

As Director of CCEA I am responsible for negotiating grants and contracts for the Center. The number of such grants and contracts has varied in the last few years been about six and fifteen, valued between $150,000 and $300,000. In addition, the Center raises $150,000 annually to support the publication of its quarterly journal.

Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, Patterns of Yucatecan Trade,

1860-1940. 1995.

Grant, Emhart Corporation and Mr. Franklin Farrel, III, for the Farrel Oral History Project to

supplement manuscript holdings in University Manuscript & Archives, 1985-92.

Grant, Davis Endowment, business history research, summer, 1985, 1992.

Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, publication subvention,

Iowa State University Press, 1991.

Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, to support efforts to acquire the

American Brass Company records for the historical manuscript collections of the

University, 1986-87.

Grant, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, support for Economic History

Association national meetings, September, 1986.

Mellon Faculty Fellow, Yale University, 1985-86.

Teaching:

Courses taught: