ABSTRACT
Paul Allan David is Professor of Economics, Emeritus, and Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute of Economic Policy Research, at Stanford University, Stanford, California. In Europe he is Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Economic History, and Senior Fellow of the Oxford Internet Institute in the University of Oxford, and Professorial Fellow of the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT) at Universiteit Maastricht in the Netherlands. He was born in New York, New York in 1935 and was educated at Harvard University (A.B, 1956; Ph.D., 1973) and as a Fulbright Fellow at Cambridge University (1956-8). In 1961 he joined the Economics faculty at Stanford, where he was William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History from 1977 to 1994. He has been Taussig Professor of Economics at Harvard (1972-3), Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge (1977-8), and Visiting Professor of the Economics of Innovation at Université Paris Dauphine (1996-9). He was elected Fellow of the International Econometric Society in 1975, of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1979, of the British Academy in 1995, Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003, and was President of the Economic History Association in 1989. He has served on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals and is a founding Editor (since 1990) of Economics of Innovation and New Technology. Paul David’s research in many areas of economic history and economics has been recognized in two Festschriften: a collection of works by former students and colleagues, History Matters: Essays on Economic Growth, Technology, and Demographic Change, edited by Timothy W. Guinnane, William A. Sundstrom, and Warren Whatley (Stanford UP, 2004) and a collection of works by European and American colleagues, New Frontiers in the Economics of Innovation and New Technology: Essays in Honour of Paul A. David, edited by Cristiano Antonelli, Dominique Foray, Bronwyn H. Hall and W. Edward Steinmueller (Elgar 2006). Paul David continues to divide his time annually between Oxford and Stanford.
