Peter Lindert

Peter Lindert is a well known American economic historian. He is an emeritus professor at the University of California, Davis and is well known for his work on trends in inequality trends, social spending, redistribution and the welfare state. ^{[1] [2]}

Academic service

• Has served as President of the Economic History Association

Selected publications

• Milanovic, B., Lindert, P. H., & Williamson, J. G. (2011). Pre‐industrial inequality. The economic journal, 121(551), 255-272.
• Lindert, P. H. (2004). Growing public: Volume 1, the story: Social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century (Vol. 1). Cambridge University Press. ^{[3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
• Lindert, P. H., & Williamson, J. G. (2016). Unequal gains: American growth and Inequality since 1700.
• Lindert, P. H. (2021). Making social spending work. Cambridge University Press.

Homepage

https://phlindert.faculty.ucdavis.edu/

References

1. https://cepr.org/about/people/peter-lindert
2. https://www.eipa.eu/expert/peter-lindert/
3. Pond, Richard. “Growing Public – Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century.” Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, vol. 10, no. 3, 2004, pp. 489–93
4. Crafts, Nicholas. “Peter H. Lindert, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. 2 Volumes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004.” The Journal of Economic Inequality, vol. 4, no. 2, 2006, pp. 251–52
5. Levine, Daniel. “Reviews of Books:Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. Volume 1, the Story Peter H. Lindert; Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century. Volume 2, Further Evidence Peter H. Lindert.” The American Historical Review, vol. 110, no. 2, 2005, pp. 444–45
6. Brad DeLong. “Book Review: Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century.” The Journal of Economic History, vol. 67, no. 1, 2007, pp. 250–54.
7. Szreter, Simon. “Book Review: Growing Public. Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century.” The Economic History Review, vol. 58, no. 3, 2005, pp. 631–33.