Jari Eloranta, Ph.D

Associate Professor of Comparative Economic and Business History

Appalachian State University, Department of History

Old Library Classroom Building 1076, Boone, NC 28608, USA
Phone: +1-828-262 6006, email: elorantaj@appstate.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-3 pm (Thursdays 11 am - 5 pm by appointment or email)
Also: Docent in Economic History, University of Jyvaskyla, Department of History

Research Interests:

Economic History, Business History, Defense Economics, Public Choice, Comparative History

• Military Spending in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• Corporate Political Action in the 20th Century
• Finnish and Scandinavian Economic History
• Long-run Explanations of Central Government Spending and the Welfare State
• Theory of Public Goods
• Comparative History
• 18th and 19th century warfare and trade

For further details, see my CV!

Working Papers

Teaching:

SUMMER 2012:

-HIS1400-101: World Empires

-HIS5106-101: Financing Wars

Links

• EH.Net
• Angus Maddison's homepage
• NBER data
• University of Warwick, Department of Economics
• Brad DeLong's website
• Peter Lindert's website
• Mark Harrison's website
• World Wide Web Virtual Library History Central Catalogue
• History Matters

  Also check out my band's music here.

  

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