Stephen T Ziliak

Research in Progress
Rhetoric of Human and Life Sciences
Gosset: Science in a Neopositivist Age (book).
Economical Writing (with Deirdre McCloskey). Third expanded and collegewide
edition.
Economic Criticism of English Literature (work in progress; with Deirdre
McCloskey and Mary Beth Combs).
A Norton-anthology type book, designed to be a bedside reader for
non-economist lovers of economics and literature.
―Some Uses of Fiction in Undergraduate Economics.‖
Self-Reliance (book).
Economic History:
An economic and cultural history of the idea that privatizing welfare
builds self-reliance among the poor. The context is urban and rural
America, 19th and 20th century.
―State Charities and Corrections: Civil War to the Great Depression‖
Welfare and prisons grew up together, yet little is known about their
history. This is a major data collection project on the so-called ―state
charities and corrections‖—1860s to the New Deal.
―Sex and the City: Female Educational Attainment and the History of
Marrying Up‖ (with Roderick Duncan).
The population of college educated women in the United States
exceeds that of men by more than two million and the difference is
rising. Yet women have a history of marrying men with more
education–a tendency that rises in probability, the post-War evidence
says, as women acquire more education. It‘s like ―Sex and the City,‖
the prophesy of James Thurber. The new season, a season of
―marrying down,‖ or not at all, may carry implications for personnel
policy, wage differentials, and the gender division of labor.
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