NBER profile: David Galenson.

• Position: National Bureau of Economic Research - Brief Article

David W. Galenson is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Labor Studies and a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. He received both his undergraduate and his graduate degrees in economics from Harvard University.

Galenson joined the University of Chicago's economics faculty in 1978 and was promoted to full professor in 1986. He has also been a visiting professor at l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the University of Texas at Austin, MIT, California Institute of Technology, and the American University of Paris.

Galenson's work, earlier in his career in economic history and more recently on the economics of the art...