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

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analy ...

at the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

. He is a former president of the National Economic Association.

Education and early life

Whatley graduated from

Shaw University Shaw University is a Private university, private Baptists, Baptist Historically black colleges and universities, historically black university in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. Founded on Decembe ...

in 1972 and received his PhD from Stanford University in 1982. In 1983, the Economic History Association 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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Washington University in St. Louis’ 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