Faculty

Sumner La Croix

Office: Saunders Hall 515A
Office Hours: current semester
Phone: 956 -7061 Fax: 956 -4347
Email: lacroix@hawaii.edu
Web Page: http://www2.hawaii.edu/~lacroix
Position: Professor

Research Interests: economic history and development of the Asia-Pacific region; industrial organization; law and economics

Teaching Areas: economic development, global economic history, industrial organization, and introductory economics

Affiliations: Professor, UH Population Studies Program (2005-); affiliate faculty member, UH Center for Japanese Studies (2006- ), UH Center for Chinese Studies (1995- ), and UH Globalization Research Center (2002- ); Senior Fellow, Research Program, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii (2001-2005); Adjunct Professor, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy (2005); Alena Wels Hirschorn Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University (1998-2000); Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, (1995); Ford Foundation Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China (1990); Visiting Lecturer, Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (1987); Visiting Lecturer, Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand (1984).

Service History: Board of Directors, Hawaii Council on Economic Education, 2001-2007. Board of Directors, Gregory House, 2002-2004. Treasurer, Gregory House, 2004. Member, UHM Chancelor's Task Force on Honors Programs, 2006-. Member, UHM Honors Program Council, 2006-. Chair, UHM Chancellor's Task Force on Entrepreneurship in Education, 2003-2005. Member, UHM Chancellor's Research Task Force, University of Hawaii, 2002-2003. Chair, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii, 2001-2004. Co-Chair, Economic History Seminar, Columbia University, 1999-2000. Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, University of Hawaii, 1997-1998. Faculty Senate, University of Hawaii, Co-Chair, Committee on Administration and Budget, 1996-1997. Faculty Senate, College of Social Sciences Representative, University of Hawaii, 1988-1990 and 1996-1998. Chair, Department Personnel Committee, University of Hawaii, 1995-1997, 2000-2001. Graduate Chair, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii, 1988-1989, 1993-1994. Undergraduate Chair, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii, 1984-1987.

Selected Publications:

Peter A. Petri and Sumner La Croix, eds. Challenges to the Global Trading System: Adjustment to Globalization in the Asia-Pacific Region. New York and London: Routledge, 2007.
"Is IP Protection Unfair to Developing Countries?" In Peter A. Petri and Sumner La Croix, eds. Challenges to the Global Trading System: Adjustment to Globalization in the Asia-Pacific Region. New York and London: Routledge, 2007. (with Denise Eby Konan)
Price Fishback, Sumner La Croix, Robert Higgs, John Joseph Wallis, Gary Libecap, Stanley Engerman, Jeffrey Hummel, Robert Margo, Robert McGuire, Richard Sylla, Lee Alston, Joseph Ferrie, Mark Guglielmo, E.C. Pasour, Randy Rucker, and Werner Trosken, Government and the American Economy: A New History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Magnus Blomstrom and Sumner La Croix, eds. Institutional Change in Japan. New York and London: Routledge, 2006.
"Explaining Divergence in Property Rights: Fiji and Hawaii in the Nineteenth Century," in Stanley Engerman and Jacob Metzger, eds., Ethno-Nationalism and Land Rights in Historical Perspective, Routledge, 2004.
"Baseball in Japan and the United States: Same Game, Same Rules, Same Results?" in Rodney Fort and John Fizel, eds., International Sports Comparisons. Praeger, 2004. (with Akihiko Kawaura)
"Globalization and Population," Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 40, No. 3 (December 2002): 240-267. (with Andrew Mason and Shigeyuki Abe)
Co-editor, Special Issue: Globalization and Population, Southeast Asian Studies, vol. 40, No. 3 (December 2002). (with Shigeyuki Abe and Andrew Mason)

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