UC Davis Department of Economics





Books and Edited Volumes

Alan L. Olmstead, New York City Mutual Savings Banks, 1819-1861 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1976).

Alan L. Olmstead, (ed.), The History of Agricultural Trade and Marketing (Washington DC: The Agricultural History Society, 1985).

Alan L. Olmstead, (ed.), Agricultural History, vol. 60 (Winter 1986), special issue on "Mexican Economic Development."

Peter H. Lindert. and Alan L. Olmstead, (eds.), Agricultural History, vol. 62 (Summer 1988), special issue on "Quantitative Studies in Agrarian History."

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Historical Statistics of the United States

Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright (eds.), Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present, Millennial Edition, Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, Gavin Wright (eds.), Historical Statistics of the United States Bicentennial Edition on CD-ROM (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Books in the pipeline

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, Human and Animal Health and the Origins of American Economic Regulation.


Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, History of Agricultural Mechanization in California.