<p> <p>Price Fishback is the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, a Fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute, and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He and co-author Shawn Kantor were awarded a Paul Samuelson Certificate of Excellence by the TIAA-CREF Institute for their book em>A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers Compensation< 2000) They also received the Lester Prize for Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations by the Industrial Relation Sections at Princeton University. His other books include em>Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Homeownershi<2013)em> Government and the American Economy: A New History 2007) and em>Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 1992) <p> <p>Price is the current Executive Director of the Economic History Association EHA) and served as co-editor of em>The Journal of Economic History< from 2008 to 2012. The EHA has twice awarded him the Arthur Cole Prize for Best Article in the em>Journal of Economic History 1997/98 and 2014/15) The EHA also awarded him the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History in 2015. Price is a Fellow of the Cliometrics Society and was one of the organizers of the Cliometrics Conference between 1996 and 2008. The term ldquo;cliometrics” was coined in the 1960s and is a quantitative approach to economic history using economics and statistics. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation to pursue several current projects: studies of the boom, bust, and slow recovery in housing and mortgage markets in the 1920s and 1930s, the impact on the economy of New Deal programs, the impact of World War II, long run changes in climate and government policy and how they affect agriculture, and the response of state governments to the Great Depression and New Deal. <class=Default" <p>Fishback received his doctorate in economics at the University of Washington in 1983 after graduating from Butler University in Economics and Mathematics in 1977, where he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. He taught and performed research at the University of Georgia and the University of Texas in the 1980s, and then moved to the University of Arizona in 1990. Price has won a number of awards for teaching at the undergraduate, MBA, and PhD levels. He has supervised over 30 Ph.D. dissertations and served on committees for more than 60 other Ph.D. students. <p>