CURRICULUM VITAE
Frank D. Lewis February, 1999
I. Personal and Academic History
Born: Montreal, January 23, 1947
Citizenship: Canadian
Married: 3 children
Present Position
Professor of Economics office: 613-545-2290
Queen's University fax: 545-6668 or 545-2257
Kingston, Ontario home: 546-0632
Canada K7L 3N6 email: lewisf@qed.econ.queensu.ca
Employment Record
Acting Head, Department of Economics, Queen's University 1997 - 1998
Professor of Economics, Queen's University 1972 - present
Visiting Professor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1994
Research Associate, Australian National University 1987
Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research 1979-80
Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia 1977-78
Educational Background
Ph.D., University of Rochester, Economics, 1976
M.A., University of Rochester, Economics, 1970
B.A., McGill University, 1967
Doctoral Dissertation: Explaining the Shift of Labor from Agriculture
to Industry in the United States, 1869-1899.
II.Scholarly Work
Publications
"Property Rights, Competition and Depletion in the Eighteenth-Century
Fur Trade: The Role of the European Market", Canadian Journal of
Economics, vol. 32 (1999), 705-28(with Ann Carlos).
"Growth and the Standard of Living in a Pioneer Economy: Upper Canada,
1826-1851," William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol.56
(January 1999), 151-81 (with M.C. Urquhart).
"Property Rights and Competition in the Depletion of the Beaver: Native
Americans and the Hudson's Bay Company, 1700-1763," in Linda
Barrington, ed., The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic
Explanations into Native American History (Boulder, CO: Westview
Press, 1998), chapter 4 (with Ann Carlos).
"Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees: Assessing the
Loss," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 33 (1996), 169-94.
"International Financing of Canadian Railroads: The Role of
Information," in Michael Bordo and Richard Sylla, eds.,
Anglo-American Finance: Financial Institutions and Markets in
the Twentieth Century, (New York University, 1995), 383-414
(with Ann Carlos).
"Optimal Beaver Harvests: The Hudson's Bay Company and the English
Market," in Terry Anderson and P.J. Hill, eds., Wildlife in the
Marketplace, (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), 61-88 (with Ann Carlos).
"Creative Financing of an Unprofitable Enterprise: The Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada," Explorations in Economic History,
vol. 31 (1995), pp. 273-301 (with Ann Carlos).
"Indians, the Beaver, and the Bay: The Economics of Depletion in the
Lands of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1700-1763," Journal of Economic
History, vol. 53 (1993), pp. 465-94 (with Ann Carlos).
"The Profitability of Early Canadian Railroads: Evidence from the Grand
Trunk and Great Western Railway Companies," in C. Goldin and H.
Rockoff, eds., Strategic Factors in American Economic Growth
(1992), pp. 401-26 (with Ann Carlos).
"Railroad Financing," in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and
Finance (1992) (with Ann Carlos).
"Australia: An Economical Prison? A Reply," Economic History Review,
2nd ser., vol. 43 (1990), pp. 477-82.
"Dependents and the Demand for Life Insurance," American Economic
Review, vol. 79 (1989), pp. 452-67.
"The Cost of Convict Transportation: Britain to Australia, 1796-1810,"
Economic History Review, 2nd ser., vol. 41 (1988), pp. 507-24.
"Government Loan Guarantees and the Failure of the Canadian Northern
Railway," Journal of Economic History, vol. 47 (1987), pp.
175-96 (with Mary MacKinnon).
Policy Forum on Reform of the Bankruptcy Act, Frank Lewis, editor,
John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy (Queen's
University, 1985).
"Market Adjustment and Government Policy," in Douglas Purvis, Ed.,
Economic Adjustment and Public Policy in Canada, John Deutsch
Institute for the Study of Economic Policy (Queen's University,
1984), pp.81-117 (with Richard Harris and Douglas Purvis).
"The Timing of Railway Construction on the Canadian Prairies,"
Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 17 (May 1984), pp. 340-52
(with David Robinson).
"Agricultural Output and Efficiency in Lower Canada, 1851," in Paul
Uselding, ed., Research in Economic History, vol. 9 (1984),
pp. 45-87 (with Marvin McInnis).
"Fertility and Savings in the United States: 1830-1900," Journal of
Political Economy, vol.91 (October 1983), pp. 825-40.
"Farm Settlement on the Canadian Prairies, 1898 to 1911," Journal
of Economic History, vol. 41 (September 1981), pp. 517-35.
"The Efficiency of the French Canadian Farmer in the Nineteenth
Century," Journal of Economic History, vol. 40 (September 1980),
pp. 497-514 (with Marvin McInnis).
"The Role of Exports in American Economic Growth," Explorations
in Economic History, vol.17 (January 1980), pp. 6-25 (with
Claudia Goldin).
"Explaining the Shift of Labor from Agriculture to Industry in the
United States, 1869 to 1899," Journal of Economic History, vol.
39 (September 1979), pp. 681-98.
"The Transition of Land to Urban Use," Journal of Political Economy,
vol. 87 (February 1979), pp. 161-69 (with Richard Arnott).
"The Post-Bellum Recovery of the South and the Cost of the Civil
War: A Comment," Journal of Economic History, vol. 38 (June 1978),
pp. 487-92 (with Claudia Goldin).
"The Canadian Wheat Boom and Per Capita Income: New Estimates,"
Journal of Political Economy, vol. 83 (December 1975), pp. 1249-57.
"The Economic Cost of the American Civil War: Estimates and
Implications," Journal of Economic History, vol. 35 (June 1975),
pp. 299-326 (with Claudia Goldin).
Book Reviews
Close Ties: Railways, Government and the Board of Railway
Commissioners, 1851-1933, by Ken Cruikshank, Journal of Economic
History, vol. 53 (March 1993).
No Paradise for Workers: Capitalism and the Common People in
Australia, 1788-1814, by Ken Buckley and Ted Wheelwright, Journal
of Economic History, vol. 50 (March 1990).
The Australian Economy in the Long Run, edited by Rodney Maddock
and Ian McLean, Journal of Economic History, vol. 45 (September 1988).
The Prosperous Years: The Economic History of Ontario, 1939-75, by
Kenneth Rea, Canadian Public Policy, vol. 7 (1986).
Railroads and Land Grant Policy: A study in Government Intervention,
by Lloyd Mercer, Journal of Economic History, vol. 44 (September 1984).
The Canadian Prairie West and the Ranching Frontier, 1874-1924, by
David Breen, Journal of Economic History, vol. 43 (December 1983).
Unequal Beginnings: Agriculture and Economic Development in Quebec
and Ontario until 1879, by John McCallum, Histoire Sociale/Social
History, vol. 14 (1983).