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Peter Temin

Peter Temin

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
59
Citations
11732
World Ranking
879
National Ranking
552

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1986 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Peter Temin is affiliated with MIT in the United States and has a research portfolio centered on social sciences and economics, econometrics, and finance. Their scholarly work intersects with subfields such as anthropology, economics and econometrics, archaeology, and general economics, econometrics, and finance.

The researcher's main topics of interest include:

  • Classical Antiquity Studies
  • Historical and Literary Studies
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Economic Theory and Policy
  • Economic Theories and Models
  • Archaeology and Historical Studies
  • Ancient Near East History

Peter Temin has published multiple papers across a variety of academic venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Finance and Intangibles in American Economic Growth: Eating the Family Cow," 2020, published in the International Journal of Political Economy
  • "Economic Theory and the Roman Monetary Economy. By Colin P. Elliott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 222. $97.69, hardcover; $80.00, Kindle.," 2021, in The Journal of Economic History
  • "Index," 2022, in Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • "Pliny's Roman Economy: Natural History, Innovation, and Growth by Richard P. Saller," 2022, in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

The researcher collaborates with other academics, with Frank Levy being a frequently co-authoring partner.

Peter Temin also holds book publications, including a title published by Cambridge University Press:

  • "Never Together," 2022

Frequent publication venues for the researcher include:

  • International Journal of Political Economy
  • The Journal of Economic History
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks
  • The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

Over the course of their career, Peter Temin has received recognition such as:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1986
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2001

Best Publications

  • Lessons from the Great Depression

    Peter Temin

  • Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America

    Frank Levy;Peter Temin

  • Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History

    Naomi R Lamoreaux;Daniel M.G. Raff;Peter Temin

  • The Gold Standard and the Great Depression

    Barry Eichengreen;Peter Temin

  • Riding the South Sea bubble

    Peter Temin;Hans-Joachim Voth

  • The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times . Edited by David S. Landes, Joel Mokyr and William J. Baumol. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 566. $49.50.

    Peter Temin

  • The European economy between the wars

    C. H. Feinstein;Peter Temin;Gianni Toniolo

  • Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth

    Stanley L Engerman;Robert E Gallman

  • Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States

    Peter Temin

  • Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution

    Peter Temin

  • Returns to Scale in Research and Development: What Does the Schumpeterian Hypothesis Imply?

    Franklin M. Fisher;Peter Temin

  • A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire

    Peter Temin

  • The Economy of the Early Roman Empire

    Peter Temin

  • The Golden Age of European growth reconsidered

    Peter Temin

  • Did monetary forces cause the Great Depression

    Peter Temin

  • The end of one big deflation

    Peter Temin;Barrie A Wigmore

  • Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Countries

    Naomi R Lamoreaux;Daniel M. G Raff;Peter Temin

  • Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire

    Peter Temin

  • The world economy between the world wars

    Charles H. Feinstein;Peter Temin;Gianni Toniolo

  • P. Mathias. The First Industrial Nation: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1914

    Peter Temin

  • The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790–1920

    Peter Temin

  • The Jacksonian economy

    Peter Temin

Frequent Co-Authors

Hans-Joachim Voth
Hans-Joachim Voth University of Zurich
Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen University of California, Berkeley
Paul A. David
Paul A. David Stanford University
Douglas A. Irwin
Douglas A. Irwin Dartmouth College
Stanley L. Engerman
Stanley L. Engerman University of Rochester
David A. Kessler
David A. Kessler United States Naval Research Laboratory
Claudia Goldin
Claudia Goldin Harvard University
Alfred D. Chandler
Alfred D. Chandler Harvard University

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