Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Professor Naomi R. Lamoreaux is the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University, an emeritus professor at UCLA, and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. After graduating from SUNY Binghamton for her BA and Johns Hopkins for her MA and Ph.D., she went on to teach at Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research centers on U.S. business and economic history. It includes patenting and the market for technology in the late nineteenth and twentieth century U.S., business organizational forms and contractual freedom in the U.S. and Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the public/private distinction in U.S. history, and the rise and decline of innovative regions. She is the author of The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895-1904; Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England; and numerous articles. Professor Lamoreaux has been the president of the Business History Conference and Economic History Association and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.