Stephen J. Meardon - Bowdoin College

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Department of Economics
9700 College Station
Brunswick, ME 04011-8497
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e-mail: smeardon at bowdoin.edu
Stephen J. Meardon
curriculum vitae
(October 19, 2012)
EMPLOYMENT
2008 (July) - Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Maine.
2011-2012 Senior Research Fellow, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina
2008 (Jan-June) Fulbright Scholar / Lecturer, Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá, Colombia.
2007-2008 Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowling Green State University. Bowling Green,
Ohio.
2005-2007 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College. Williamstown,
Massachusetts.
2003-2005 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Bowdoin College. Brunswick, Maine.
2002-2003 Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics, Georgetown Public Policy Institute,
Georgetown University. Washington, DC.
2001-2003 Junior Professional, Inter-American Development Bank, Departments of Evaluation and
Oversight, Integration and Regional Programs, and Research. Washington, DC.
1999-2001 Assistant Professor of Economics, Williams College. Williamstown, Massachusetts.
EDUCATION
2011 Certificate, Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education Program, “Mastering Trade Policy.”
1999 Ph.D., Duke University, Economics. Dissertation: Trade Liberalization and the Geographic
Distribution of Industry in the United States and Mexico. Advisors: Craufurd Goodwin,
Pietro Peretto, Neil DeMarchi, Gary Gereffi.
1997 M.A., Duke University, Economics.
1993 B.A., Bowdoin College, Economics, Magna cum laude.
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
History of economics, International trade, Latin American regional studies, Macroeconomics
COURSES TAUGHT
Trade Doctrines and Trade Deals Fall 2012
History of Economic Thought Fall 2010, Spring 2009, Fall 2000, Fall 1999
Principles of Macroeconomics Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2008, Spring 2007,
Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004,
Spring 1999, Summer 1996
Political Economy of Pan-Americanism Fall 2009
History of Colombia-U.S. Commercial Relations Spring 2008
Introduction to Economics Fall 2007
Mapping Gotham’s History Winter 2007
Contemporary Problems in Political Economy Fall 2006
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Economic Liberalism and its Critics Fall 2006, Fall 2005
Politics of the International Economy Fall 2005
Latin American Economic Development Spring 2005, Fall 2003
Advanced International Trade Fall 2004
Principles of Microeconomics Spring 2004, Fall 2003
Research Practicum in International Economics Spring 2003, Fall 2002
Intermediate Macroeconomics Spring 2001, Spring 2000, Summer 1998, 1997
Cuban Socialism and Transition Winter 2001
International Trade and Development Fall 2000, Fall 1999
Econometrics Summer 1999, Fall 1998, Summer 1997,
Fall 1996
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed articles
2012 “Reciprocity in Retrospect: A Historical Inquest of Bilateralism in U.S. Trade Policy” (with
Treb Allen). History of Economic Thought and Policy 1(2): pp. 5-33.
2012 “Negotiating Free Trade in Fact and Theory: the Diplomacy and Doctrine of Condy Raguet.”
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought (forthcoming 2014), version of first
record 17 Aug. 2012: doi 10.1080/09672567.2012.683027.
2011 “Reciprocity and Henry C. Carey’s Traverses on ‘the Road to Perfect Freedom of Trade’.”
Journal of the History of Economic Thought 33(3): pp. 307-333.
2011 “On the Evolution of U.S. Trade Agreements: Evidence from Taussig’s Tariff Commission.”
Journal of Economic Issues 45(2): pp. 475-483.
2008 “From Religious Revivals to Tariff Rancor: Preaching Free Trade and Protection during the
Second American Party System.” History of Political Economy 40(5): pp. 265-98.
2007 “Postbellum Protection and Commissioner Wells’s Conversion to Free Trade.” History of
Political Economy 39(4): pp. 571-604.
2006 “Richard Cobden's American Quandary: Negotiating Peace, Free Trade, and Anti-Slavery.” In
Anthony Howe and Simon Morgan, eds., Rethinking Nineteenth Century Liberalism: Richard
Cobden Bicentenary Essays, Ashgate, pp. 203-22.
2005 “How TRIPs Got Legs: Copyright, Trade Policy, and the Role of Government in 19 th -Century
American Economic Thought.” History of Political Economy 37(5): pp. 140-69.
2002 “The Interesting Narrative of a Duke-trained Historian of Economics, from Prospectus to Ph.D.
to Profession; or, How I Learned to Love Weintraub and Start Worrying.” History of Political
Economy 34(5): pp. 272-83.
2002 “On the New Economic Geography and the Progress of Geographical Economics.” In Stephan
Böhm, Christian Gehrke, Heinz Kurz, and Richard Sturn, eds., Is There Progress in Economics?
Knowledge, Truth and the History of Economic Thought, pp. 217-39. Northampton, MA:
Edward Elgar.
2001 “Modeling Agglomeration and Dispersion in City and Country: Gunnar Myrdal, François
Perroux, and the New Economic Geography.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology
60(1): pp. 25-57.
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2000 “Eclecticism, Inconsistency, and Innovation in the History of Geographical Economics.” History
of Political Economy 32(5): pp. 325-59.
1998 “Archiving the History of Economics,” with E. Roy Weintraub, Ted Gayer, and Spencer
Banzhaf. Journal of Economic Literature 36(3): pp. 1496-1501.
1998 “The International Dimension of American Economic Thought,” with Craufurd Goodwin. In
Malcolm Rutherford ed., The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History of American
Economics, pp. 295-324. U.K.: Routledge.
1996 “Self-Command in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments,” with Andreas Ortmann.
Rationality and Society 8(1): pp. 57-80.
1995 “A Game-Theoretic Re-Interpretation of Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth
of Nations,” with Andreas Ortmann. In Ingra Rima ed., The Classical Tradition in Economic
Thought, pp. 43-61. Aldershot, U.K.: Edward Elgar.
Unrefereed reviews, essays, editorials, and comments
2011 “Michaud Downplays Benefits, Overstates Problem of New Trade Pacts.” Op-ed, “Maine
Voices” feature, Portland Press Herald, August 11.
2008 Review of Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-State in Historical
Perspective, by Istvan Hont: Harvard University Press, 2005. Published by EH.NET, October.
2008 “United States, Economics in (Before 1885).” Entry for the New Palgrave Dictionary of
Economics, 2 nd ed., Larry Blume and Steven Durlauf, eds. Palgrave Macmillan.
2006 Review of Conversations on Growth, Stability and Trade: An Historical Perspective, by Brian
Snowdon: Edward Elgar, 2003. Journal of the History of Economic Thought 28(4): pp. 511-14.
2006 Review of Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History, 3 vols., by Cynthia Clark
Northrup and Elaine C. Prange Turney, eds.: Greenwood Press, 2003. Published by EH.NET,
January.
2004 “On the History of Trade Principles and Politics (with Present-Day Polemics): A Review Essay
on Leonard Gomes, The Economics and Ideology of Free Trade: A Historical Review.” History
of Economic Ideas 12(2): pp. 89-95.
2003 Review of International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies: The Classical
Dynamics of Hume, Smith, Ricardo and Malthus, by John Berdell: Edward Elgar, 2002. Journal
of the History of Economic Thought 25(4): pp. 515-7.
2002 Review of Mexico and Mexico City in the World Economy, by Edgar W. Butler, James B. Pick,
and W. James Hettrick: Westview Press, 2000. Journal of Regional Science 42(1): pp. 206-9.
2002 “A Tale of Two Tariff Commissions and One Dubious ‘Globalization Backlash’.” Research
Department Working Paper # 476, Inter-American Development Bank.
2001 Review of Main Currents in Cumulative Causation: The Dynamics of Growth and Development,
by Philip Toner: Macmillan, 1999. Economic Journal 111(472): pp. 528-30.
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1998 “The Economists’ Papers Project at Duke University: A Sample from the Don Patinkin Papers.”
Guest Editorial for the History of Economics Society. Published by EH.NET, May.
1997 “Introduction” to the Don Patinkin Papers. Duke University Special Collections Library.
1996 “Yes, Adam Smith was an Economist,” with Andreas Ortmann. Rationality and Society 8(3): pp.
348-52.
COMPETITVE AWARDS
2011-2012 Senior Research Fellowship, Center for the History of Political Economy, Duke
University (August 15-May 31). Project: “Trade Doctrines and Trade Deals:
American Political Economy and the Problem of Reciprocity, 1794-1944.”
2011 Course Development Award, Bowdoin College. Project: “Trade Doctrines and Trade
Deals.”
2010 Faculty Development (Fletcher) Award, Bowdoin College. Project: ""The Course of
Economic Warfare: the Decline of the Trade Agreements Program, 1938-1940."
2009 Course Development Award, Bowdoin College. Project: “Political Economy of Pan-
Americanism.”
2008 Fulbright lecture/research fellowship, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia (Jan.-June
2008). Project: “Reciprocity in Retrospect: Bilateralism and Trade in the United
States and Colombia, 1824-1898.”
2004 Fletcher Family Research Grant, Bowdoin College. Richard Cobden Bicentenary
Conference, Midhurst, West Sussex, U.K.
2003 Fletcher Family Research Grant, Bowdoin College. British Library; West Sussex Record
Office; and ECHE 2004 conference, Reims, France.
1997-1998 Organization of American States, Regular Training Program Fellowship. Ph.D.
dissertation research in Mexico: El Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
(CIDE), México D.F.
1997-1998 U.S. Department of Education and Duke University Center for North American Studies,
Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship. Ph.D. dissertation research in Mexico.
1997 Ford Foundation and Duke University Center for International Studies, Dissertation
Travel Award. Alfred Marshall Library, Cambridge, U.K. and CEPR/NBER
Geography Seminar, Royaumont, France
1997 Ford Foundation and Duke University Center for International Studies, Dissertation
Travel Award. CIDE, ITAM and Colegio de México, México D.F.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Editorial Board
History of Economic Thought and Policy, 2011-present
Referee
History of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of the History of Economic Thought,
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, History of Economic Ideas, Journal of Economic
Methodology, Economic Inquiry, Economía, Revista de Economía Institucional, National Tax Journal,
Journal of Political Economy, Oxford University Press, University Press of Florida
Scholarly Societies
History of Economics Society, Executive Committee, 2012-present
New England Council of Latin American Studies, Executive Committee, 2009-2011
New England Council of Latin American Studies, Best Article Committee, 2010
History of Economics Society, Chairman, Best Dissertation Committee, 2009-2010
History of Economics Society, committee member, Best Article Committee, 2006-2007
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Senior Theses
David W. Allen, “Preferential Trade and Popular Response: the Political-Economic Implications of
CAFTA,” 2006.
Jennifer H. Leung, “China and the Multilateral Trading System : Foreign Trade Reforms and the
Implications of Economic and Political Dualism,” 2000.
Lloyd L. Nimetz, “The Effect of Economic Integration on Domestic Enterprises : an Analysis of the
MERCOSUR's Multinational-National Enterprise Regime,” 2001.
Independent Studies
Jeremy Lewis. The Economics and Public Service of Charles P. Kindleberger, Bowdoin College, 2011
Jason Salony, The Effect of Transport Infrastructure Development on the Spatial Distribution of Wages in
Brazil, 2003-2004
Hugh Van der Veer, Institutions and Latin American Development, 2004
Daniel Hayes, The Cuban Economy, 2005
Departmental Service
Co-organizer, Second Annual CBB Economics Conference, 2011
Co-organizer, seminar series, Bowdoin College Economics Dept., 2009-2011
Co-organizer, First Annual CBB Economics Conference, 2010
Co-organizer, seminar series, Bowdoin College Economics Dept., 2009-2010
Co-liaison, Economics Student Advisory Committee, Bowdoin College Economics Dept., 2008-2009
Library Liason, Bowdoin College Economics Dept., 2003-2005
Computer Coordinator, Williams College Economics Dept., 1999-2001
University / College Service
Internal Student Fellowships Committee, Bowdoin College, 2012-
Library Committee, Bowdoin College, 2010-2011
Ad Hoc Committee for Cultural Anthropology faculty search, Bowdoin College, 2010-2011
Ad Hoc Committee for Computer Science faculty search, Bowdoin College, 2009-2010
Trustees' Committee on Facilities and Properties, Bowdoin College, 2009-2011
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Assistant to the Editor, History of Political Economy, Duke University, 1996-1997.
Archivist, Professional Papers of Don Patinkin, Duke University Special Collections Library, 1996-1997.
RESEARCH IN PROGRESS / UNPUBLISHED WORK
• “‘A Reciprocity of Advantages’: Carey, Hamilton, and the American Protective Doctrine”
• “The (Far) Backstory of the U.S.-Colombia FTA”
• “Protectionist Dilemmas and the Doomed Trade Deal of Messrs. Ulysses S. Grant and Matías Romero”
• “The Course of Economic Warfare: the Treasury and the Trade Agreements Program, 1938-1944”
PRESENTATIONS
2012 History of Economics Society annual conference, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 23 [“‘A
Reciprocity of Advantages’: Carey, Hamilton, and the American Protective Doctrine”].
2012 History of Economics Society annual conference, St. Catharines, Ontario, June 23
[“Protectionist Dilemmas and the Doomed Trade Deal of Messrs. Ulysses S. Grant and
Matías Romero”]
2012 Journal of Policy History biennial conference, Richmond, Virginia, June 7 [“Protectionist
Dilemmas and the Doomed Trade Deal of Messrs. Ulysses S. Grant and Matías Romero”].
2011 Associação Nacional dos cursos de pos-graduação em economia (ANPEC) annual conference,
Iguassu Falls, Brazil, Dec. 7 [“Negotiating Free Trade in Theory and Fact: the Doctrine and
Diplomacy of Condy Raguet”]
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2011 European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) conference, “From Colonial
Empires to Globalization: History of Economic Thought Approaches,” Mexico City,
November 12 [“Trade Doctrines and the U.S.-Mexico Reciprocity Treaty of 1883”]
2011 McNeil Center for Early American Studies / Library Company of Philadelpia conference on
“Ireland, America, and the Worlds of Mathew Carey,” October 28 [“Mathew Carey and the
Growth of the American Protective Doctrine”]
2011 History of Economics Society annual conference, Notre Dame, Indiana, June 18 [“Negotiating
Free Trade in Theory and Fact: the Doctrine and Diplomacy of Condy Raguet”]
2011 History of Economics Society annual conference, Notre Dame, Indiana, June 17 [“On the
Evolution of U.S. Trade Agreements”]
2011 Association for Evolutionary Economics meetings, A.S.S.A. annual conference, Denver, January
7-9 [“On the Evolution of U.S. Trade Agreements”]
2010 History of Economics Society annual conference, Syracuse, New York, June 25-28 [“The
Course of Economic Warfare”]
2010 Journal of Policy History biennial conference, Columbus, Ohio, June 3-6 [“Negotiating Free
Trade in Theory and Fact: The Doctrine and Diplomacy of Condy Raguet.”]
2010 Consortium on the Revolutionary Era annual conference, Charleston, South Carolina, February
27. ["Negotiating Free Trade in Theory and Fact: the Doctrine and Diplomacy of Condy
Raguet"]
2009 Invited presentation, University of Vermont Economics Department Seminar, Burlington,
October 1. [“Reciprocity and Henry C. Carey's Traverses on ‘the Road to Perfect Freedom of
Trade'.”]
2009 Faculty Research Seminar, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, September 22. [“Reciprocity
and Henry C. Carey's Traverses on ‘the Road to Perfect Freedom of Trade'.”]
2009 World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, the Netherlands, August 7. [“Reciprocity in
Nineteenth-century U.S.-Colombia Commercial Relations.”] Session organizer.
2009 History of Economics Society annual conference, Denver, Colorado, June 28. [“Henry C. Carey
and Reciprocity in U.S. International Trade Policy.”] Session organizer.
2009 Peucinian Society, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 29. [“√2 Cheers for Formalism
in Economics.”]
2009 Longfellow Days, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, February 12. [“Trade Treaties in
Longfellow’s Time.”]
2008 U.K. History of Economic Thought Conference, 40 th annual meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland,
September 3. [“Trade Doctrines, Commercial Treaties, and Anglo-U.S. Rivalry in the
Americas”]
2008 Society for the History of American Foreign Relations annual conference, Columbus, Ohio, June
26. [“Reciprocity in Nineteenth-century U.S.-Colombia Commercial Relations”]
2008 Asociación Colombiana de Historia Económica, invited presentation, May 29. [“Reciprocidad
en las Relaciones Comerciales entre Colombia y Estados Unidos en el Siglo XIX”]
2008 A.S.S.A. meetings, New Orleans, Louisiana, January. [“From Religious Revivals to Tariff
Rancor”]
2007 Bowling Green State University Economics Department colloquium, Bowling Green, Ohio,
November. [“Reciprocity in Retrospect”]
2007 Ohio Association of Economics and Political Science annual conference, Perrysburg, Ohio,
October. [“Reciprocity in Retrospect”]
2007 Economic History Association annual meetings, Austin, Texas, September. [“Reciprocity in
Retrospect”]
2007 History of Political Economy annual conference, Durham, North Carolina, April. [“Whence
Commerce Followed the Missionary”]
2006 Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association annual conference, México, D.F.,
November. [“Reciprocity in Retrospect” (with David W. Allen)]
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2006 New England Council of Latin American Studies, Middlebury, Vermont, October. [“Reciprocity
in Retrospect” (with David W. Allen)]
2006 Seminar of the Centro de Estudios Sobre el Desarrollo Económico (CEDE), Universidad de los
Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, July. [“Postbellum Protection”]
2006 History of Economics Society annual conference, Grinnell, Iowa, June. [“Economics in the
United States before the A.E.A.”]
2006 IX conference of the Associazione Italiana per la Storia del Pensiero Economico, Padova, Italy,
June. [“Reciprocity in Retrospect” (with David W. Allen)]
2006 Williams College Department of Economics internal seminar, Williamstown, Massacusetts,
April. [“Geography, Trade, and Regional Disparities”]
2005 Williams College Department of Economics internal seminar, Williamstown, Massachusetts,
November. [“Postbellum Protection”]
2005 History of Economics Society annual conference, Tacoma, Washington, June. [“Liberal versus
Imperial Utopia”]
2005 Tenth Annual European Conference for the History of Economics, Vienna, Austria, April.
[“Liberal versus Imperial Utopia”]
2004 Faculty Research Seminar, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, November. [“Richard
Cobden’s American Quandary”]
2004 New England Council of Latin American Studies, Boston, Massachusetts, November.
[“Geography, Trade, and Regional Disparities”]
2004 Conference on “A Decade of Development Thinking,” Inter-American Development Bank,
Washington, D.C., October. [“How TRIPs Got Legs”]
2004 Richard Cobden Bicentenary Conference, Midhurst, Sussex, U.K., July. [“Richard Cobden in
America”]
2004 History of Economics Society annual conference, Toronto, Canada, June. [“New England
Textiles and the Dissemination of Free Trade Doctrine, 1865-1870”]
2004 History of Political Economy annual conference, Durham, North Carolina, April. [“How TRIPs
Got Legs”]
2004 Ninth Annual European Conference for the History of Economics, Reims, France, March.
[“Postbellum Protection”]
2003 Faculty Research Seminar, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, November. [“Geography,
Trade, and Regional Disparities”]
2003 Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association annual conference, Puebla, Mexico,
October. [“Geography, Trade, and Regional Disparities”]
2003 History of Economics Society annual conference, Durham, North Carolina, July. [“Postbellum
Protection”]
2003 ECONNet Technical Seminar, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., April.
[“Geography, Trade, and Regional Disparities”]
2003 International conference on Olaudah Equiano, Kingston upon Thames, U.K., March. [“Olaudah
Equiano’s Economics” (with Tess Chakkalakal)]
2003 A.S.S.A. meetings, Washington, D.C., January. [“A Tale of Two Tariff Commissions”]. Session
organizer.
2002 Duke Workshop in the History of Economic Thought, Durham, North Carolina, April.
[“Globalization’s Once and Future Vanquished”]
2001 International conference on Don Patinkin, Lausanne, Switzerland, September. [“Tactics and
Outcomes in Patinkin’s Twin Battles” (with Elizabeth Smith)]
2001 History of Economics Society annual conference, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April.
[“Globalization and the Nineteenth Century Tariff Controversy”]
2001 History of Political Economy annual conference, Durham, North Carolina, April. [“How I
Learned to Love Weintraub and Start Worrying”]
2001 International Network for Economic Method annual meetings, Vancouver, Canada, June. [“On
the Progress of the New Economic Geography”]
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2000 European Society for the History of Economic Thought annual meetings, Graz, Austria,
February. [“On the Progress of the New Economic Geography”]
1999 Williams College Department of Economics internal seminar, Williamstown, Massachusetts,
November. [“History of Geographical Economics”]
1998 Regional Science Association International annual meetings, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November.
[“Trade and the Distribution of Industry in U.S. and Mexico”]
1998 Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association annual conference, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, October. [“Trade and the Distribution of Industry in U.S. and Mexico”]
1998 Duke Workshop in Macroeconomics and International Trade, Durham, North Carolina, October.
[“Trade and the Distribution of Industry in U.S. and Mexico”]
1998 History of Economics Society annual conference, Montreal, Quebec, June. [“Geographical
Economics and Regional Policy in 20 th Century North America”]
1997 History of Economics Society annual conference, Charleston, South Carolina, June. [“The
Economists’ Papers Project at Duke” (with C. Goodwin et al.)]
1997 Duke Workshop in the History of Economic Thought, Durham, North Carolina, April.
[“Monopolistic Competition and Economic Geography”]
1996 History of Economics Society annual conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, June. [“The
International Dimension of American Economic Thought” (with C. Goodwin)]
1996 Duke Workshop in the History of Economic Thought, Durham, North Carolina, April. [“The
International Dimension of American Economic Thought” (with C. Goodwin)]
LANGUAGES
English, Spanish: Fluent
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