NBER profile: Price V. Fishback.

Price Fishback is the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona and a Research Associate in the NBERs Development of the American Economy Program. His co-authored books published by the University of Chicago Press include Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Homeownership (2013); Government and the American Economy: A New History (2007) and A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation (2000). He published Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 with Oxford University Press in 1992. His current research includes studies of the boom, bust, and slow recovery in housing and mortgage markets in the 1920s and 1930s, the impact of New...