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Paul W Rhode

Faculty Associate
Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Faculty Associate, Population Studies Center, Institute for Social Research
Research Interests:
Dr. Rhode is an economic historian working on the 20th century United States. He has a range of interests from performance of election betting marketing to the economic development of the Pacific region.
Select Publications
- Rhode,Paul W, Moser, Petra , Ohmstedt, Joerg . 2019. Patent Citations-An Analysis of Quality Differences and Citing Practices in Hybrid Corn. Management Science
- Rhode,Paul W, Gallman, Robert E. 2019. Capital in the nineteenth century.
- Rhode,Paul W, Meyers, Keith . 2019. Yield Performance of Corn under Heat Stress: A Comparison of Hybrid and Open-Pollinated Seeds during a Period of Technological Transformation, 1933-1955. Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture
- Rhode,Paul W, Atack, Jeremy , Margo, Robert A. 2019. “Automation” of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study. Journal of Economic Perspectives 33(2):51-70.
- Rhode,Paul W, Olmstead, Alan L. 2018. Cotton, slavery, and the new history of capitalism. Explorations in Economic History 67:1-17.
- Rhode,Paul W, Olmstead, Alan L. 2018. Agriculture in American Economic History. The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History
- Rhode,Paul W, Snyder, James M, Strumpf, Koleman . 2018. The arsenal of democracy: Production and politics during WWII. Journal of Public Economics 166:145-161.
- Rhode,Paul W. 2018. Capital, Income Growth, in American Economic History. The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History
- Rhode,Paul W, Cain, Louis P, Fishback, Price V. 2018. Manufacturing Growth and Structural Change in American Economic History. The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History
- Ken Sylvester, Rhode,Paul W. 2017. Making Green Revolutions: Kansas Farms, Recovery, and the New Agriculture, 1918-1981. Agricultural History 91(3):342-368.