Louis A. Ferleger
ProfessorÂ
History
Boston University
United States of America
Biography
"Louis Ferleger was appointed Professor of History at Boston University in 1999. He has also served as Executive Director of The Historical Society, a historical organization located at Boston University. He is co-author of A New Mandate: Democratic Choices for a Prosperous Economy and No Gain, No Pain: Taxes, Productivity and Economic Growth as well as editor of Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century. He is also co-editor of Slavery, Secession, and Southern History (2000) and, with Walter Dean Burnham and Thomas Ferguson, Voting in American Elections: The Shape of the American Political Universe Since 1788 (Academica Press, 2009). Before coming to Boston University, he taught at the University of Massachusetts Boston."
Research Interest
U.S. economic history
Publications
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Ferleger L, Lazonick W. Higher education for an innovative economy: land-grant colleges and the managerial revolution in America. Business and Economic History. 1994 Oct 1:116-28.
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Ferleger LA. A World of Farmers, But Not a Farmer’s World. Journal of the Historical Society. 2002 Jan 1;2(1):43-53.
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Ferleger L, Lazonick W. The managerial revolution and the developmental state: the case of US agriculture. Business and Economic History. 1993 Dec 1:67-98.
