Professor of Economics

Contact Information

Department of Economics
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada   K7L 3N6

Phone: (613) 533-2290
Fax: (613) 533-6668
E-mail: lewisf@econ.queensu.ca 

Personal Information

I received my B.A. at McGill and my M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Rochester. I have been on the faculty at Queen's since 1972. I also was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia (1977-78, 1986), Stanford (1979-80), the Australian National University (1987), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1994 and 2004). My research has been in the area of Economic History, focusing mainly but not exclusively on Canada. In recent years Ann Carlos and I have been working on the fur trade of the Hudson Bay Region where our focus has been the aboriginal role. (see attached Curriculum Vitae [pdf])

Recent Publications

• Human Capital and Institutions: A Long-Run View, co-edited with David Eltis and Kenneth Sokoloff (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

• “Compensation and the Abandoned Property of the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessment and Implications,” Explorations in Economic History, vol. 44 (2007), pp. 523-37.

• “Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade and Productivity in Eighteenth Century South Carolina: A Reassessment, “ Journal of Economic History, vol. 66 (2006), pp.1054-65 (with David Eltis and David Richardson).

• “Property Rights in the Region of Hudson Bay: A Case Study of the Eighteenth-Century Cree,” in Self-Determination: The Other Path for Native Americans, eds. Terry L. Anderson, Bruce L. Benson and Tom Flanagan (Stanford University Press, 2006) (with Ann Carlos).

• “Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade and Productivity in the Caribbean: 1674-1807,” Economic History Review, vol. 58 (2005), pp. 673-700 (with David Eltis and David Richardson).

• "The Transition from Slavery to Freedom: A Life-Cycle Approach Applied to the United States and Guadelopue," in Slavery in the Development of the Americas, edited by David Eltis, Frank Lewis, and Kenneth Sokoloff (Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 150-77.

• Slavery in the Development of the Americas, co-edited with David Eltis and Kenneth Sokoloff (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Forthcoming Publications

• Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade, with Ann Carlos (University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming).

Working Papers

• Transport Costs and the Slave Trade to the Caribbean (with David Eltis and Kimberley McIntyre)

• Capital Constraints and European Migration to Canada: Evidence from the 1920s Passenger Lists (with Alexander Armstrong)

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