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david weiman
Professor of Economics
David F. Weiman is Alena Wels Hirschorn ‘58 Professor of Economics at Barnard College and affiliated member of Columbia University’s Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and History Department. He specializes in 19th and 20th century U.S. economic history and the political economy of contemporary U.S. criminal justice policy. His research in economic history focuses on the evolution of banking-payments and telecommunications networks. His recent published works include "The Political Economy of the U.S. Monetary Union: The Civil War Era as a Watershed" (American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 2007, 97:2), "Financial Clearing Systems" (in Richard Nelson, ed., The Limits of Market Organization), and "‘Universal Service’ in the Early Bell System: The Co-Evolution of Regional Urban Systems and Long Distance Telephone Networks" (in William Sundstrom et al, eds., History Matters). With co-author John James (Virginia), he is writing articles and a book on the evolution of the U.S. payments system from the demise of the Second Bank of the United States to the founding of the Federal Reserve System. Weiman is associate editor of the Financial History Review for North America.
Since 2000 Weiman has coordinated the Russell Sage Foundation working group on mass incarceration. He is author of "Barriers to Prisoners’ Reentry into the Labor Market and the Social Costs of Recidivism" (Social Research 2007, 74:3) and co-editor of two Russell Sage volumes on the unintended socioeconomic costs of mass incarceration: Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration (2004) and Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America (2007). His current research locates the origins of mass incarceration in the turbulent decade from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, when local, state, and federal governments launched the "War on Drugs."
EDUCATION:
AB, Brown University
MA, Yale University
PhD, Stanford University
SPECIALIZATION:
Economic history