Warren C. Whatley is an American economist who is emeritus professor of

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at the

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. He is a former president of the

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Education and early life

Whatley graduated from

Shaw University Shaw University is a private historically black university in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded on December 1, 1865, Shaw University is the oldest HBCU to begin offering courses in the Southern United States. The school had its origin in the fo ...

in 1972 and received his PhD from

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in 1982. In 1983, the

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awarded him the Allan Nevins Prize for the Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History the previous year.

Career

Whatley taught at the University of Michigan from 1981 to 2016. He was a professor of both economics and AfroAmerican and African Studies.

Selected publications

* Whatley, Warren C. "Labor for the picking: The New Deal in the South." Journal of Economic History (1983): 905–929. * Whatley, Warren C. "African-American Strikebreaking from the Civil War to the New Deal." Social Science History 17, no. 4 (1993): 525–558. * Whatley, Warren C. "Southern agrarian labor contracts as impediments to cotton mechanization." Journal of Economic History (1987): 45–70. * Whatley, Warren, and Rob Gillezeau. "The impact of the transatlantic slave trade on ethnic stratification in Africa." American Economic Review 101, no. 3 (2011): 571–76. * Whatley, Warren C. "A history of mechanization in the cotton South: The institutional hypothesis." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 100, no. 4 (1985): 1191–1215.

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External links

"The Atlantic Slave Trade"

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’ Center for New Institutional Social Sciences (CNISS) lecture, April 22, 2011 Living people 21st-century American economists American economic historians Stanford University alumni Shaw University alumni University of Michigan faculty African-American economists Year of birth missing (living people) Presidents of the National Economic Association {{economist-stub