DENNIS O. FLYNN
Department of Economics
University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
(209) 946-3088
[email protected]
Pacific World History Institute
2531 Bonnie Lane
Stockton, CA. 95204
Cell: (209) 943-6408
Fax: (209) 946-2318
POSITIONS
Alexander R. Heron Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of the
Pacific, Sept. 1998-present
Director, Pacific World History Institute, May 2000-present
Academic Visitor, Department of Economic History, London School of Economics,
Fall 2004
Professor of Economics, University of the Pacific, Sept. 1987-present
Associate Professor of Economics, University of the Pacific Sept 1984- Sept 1987
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of the Pacific, Sept 1979- Sept 1984
Assistant Professor of Economics, Boise State University, Sept 1978- Sept 1979
DEGREES
1977
1972
1968
Doctor of Philosophy, (Economics), University of Utah
Master of Science, (Economics), University of Nevada, Reno
Bachelor of Science, (Economics), University of Nevada, Reno
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Global Economic History (esp. monetary history), 16th-18th centuries
Accumulation; The Unified Theory of Prices
www.unifiedtheoryofprices.org
BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS
(Published or under contract)
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(With Tsukasa Mizushima and George Bryan Souza, eds.), Place, Space, and Time:
Asian Hinterlands and Political Economic Development in the Long Eighteenth
Century. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming
2001-10 (With Arturo Giráldez, General Editors), The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples, and
History of the Pacific, 1500-1900. Aldershot (UK): Ashgate/Variorum Press
Seventeen-volume series.
2010
Guroubaru-ka no Kigen to Gin-ryutsu (Globalization and Silver). Tokyo: Yamakawa
Press, 2010 (ISBN 978-4-634-47507-6).
2010
(With Arturo Giráldez), China and the Birth of Globalization in the Sixteenth
Century. London: Ashgate (ISBN 978-0-7546-6858-9).
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2009
A Price Theory of Monies: Evolving lessons in monetary history. Wetteren,
Belgium: Moneta (ISBN 978-90-77297-65-0).
2003
(With A. Giráldez and R. von Glahn, eds.), Global Connections and Monetary
History, 1470-1800. Aldershot: Ashgate (ISBN 0 7546 3213 X).
2002
(With Arturo Giráldez and James Sobredo, eds.), Studies in Pacific History:
Economics, Politics, and Migration. Aldershot: Ashgate (ISBN 0 7546 0946 4).
2001
(With Arturo Giráldez and James Sobredo, eds.), European Entry into the Pacific:
Spain and the Manila Galleons. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum (ISBN 978-0-75460152-4).
1999
(With Lionel Frost and A.J.H. Latham, eds.), Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific
Rim History Since the 16th Century. London and New York: Routledge Press
(ISBN 0-203-44566-X).
1998
(With Sally Miller and A.J.H. Latham, eds.), Studies in the Economic History of the
Pacific Rim. London and New York: Routledge Press (ISBN 978-0-415-14819-1).
1997
(With Arturo Giráldez, eds.), Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global Economy
(Volume in the series, An Expanding World: The European Impact on World
History, 1450-1800.) Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum Press (ISBN 0-86078-531-9.
1996
World Silver and Monetary History in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(Collected Studies Series). Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum Press (ISBN 0-86078-5955).
1973
Reno Small Claims Court: Its Purpose and Performance. (Research Report Number
10) Reno: University of Nevada Bureau of Business and Economic Research,
National College of the State Judiciary, and the Bureau of Governmental Research
(ASIN: B0006CS4AU).
BOOKS IN PROGRESS
(not yet under contract)
Accumulation: Theory from History (exposition of the Unified Theory of Prices,
founded upon collaboration with Kerry W. Doherty during the 1980s)
ARTICLES/ESSAYS
2014
“Silver in Global Context, 1400-1800,” Cambridge History of the World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
2014
(with Marie A. Lee), “Hydraulic Metaphor: A Model of Global and Local
Connectivity,” in Tsukasa Mizushima, Dennis O. Flynn, and George Bryan
Souza (eds.), Place, Space, and Time: Asian Hinterlands and Political
Economic Development in the Long Eighteenth Century. Leiden: Brill,
forthcoming.
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2014
“Link-Unit-of-Account versus Ratio-Unit-of-Account Moneys: SeventeenthCentury Dutch Mint Policy,” in Jane Kate Leonard and Ulrich Theobald
(eds.), Small Currencies Matter: Trade and Transactions in Early Modern
East Asian Economies: Third International Workshop of the Research Group
‘Monies, Markets, and Finance in China and East Asia, 1600-1900’, 1-3
October 2008. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.
2013
(with Arturo Giráldez), “Los origenes de la globalización en el siglo XVI,” [Book
title to be determined]. Mexico City, forthcoming.
2013
(with A. Giráldez), “Silver in History,” in Heather Streets-Salter (ed.), Commodities,
Culture, and History: The Products that Changed the World, Volumes I-II. Facts On
File, forthcoming.
2013
(with Marie A. Lee), “A Restatement of the Price Theory of Monies,” in G.
Depeyrot (ed.), Three Conferences on International Monetary History, pp.293-314.
Wetteren, Belgium: Moneta.
2013
“Precious Metals and Moneys, 1200-1800,” in Gerard Caprio (ed.), Handbook of
Key Global Financial Markets, Institutions, and Infrastructure, Vol. 1, pp. 221-234.
Oxford: Elsevier Inc.
2013
(with Marie A.Lee), “East Asian Trade before/after 1590s Occupation of Korea:
Modeling Imports and Exports in Global Context,” Asian Review of World Histories
1:1 (January 2013), pp. 83-116.
2011
“Link-Unit-of-Account versus Ratio-Unit-of-Account Moneys: Seventeenth-Century
Dutch Mint Policy,” in Empires, Systems, and Maritime Networks: Reconstructing
Supra-Regional Histories in Pre-19th Century Asia. Working Paper Series 05 at
Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Oita, Japan. (December), pp.33-62.
2010
(with Arturo Giráldez), “Wiedergeboren: Ursprünge der Globalisierung im 16.
Jarhundert. Asiatisch bzw. Globale versus europ ische Dynamiken,” Jahrbuch für
Eruop ische berseegeschichte 10, pp.29-65. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag
2010
“The Microeconomics of Silver and East-West Trade in the Early Modern Period,”
[translated into Japanese by Takeshi NISHIMURA), Bulletin of Asia-Pacific Studies
XIX (2010), pp.115-145.
2008
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Born Again: Globalization’s Sixteenth-Century
Origins,” Pacific Economic Review, 3: 13, pp.359-387.
2006
(with Mark Caprio) "Reikishi toshite no globalization" [Globalization as History,
translated by Naka Nishi Kyoko] in Mark Caprio (ed.), Kindai HIgashi Ajia no
globalization [Modern East Asian globalization], pp.12-22. Tokyo: Akashi shoten.
2006
"Globalization Began in 1571" [in Japanese] in the Journal of History for the Public,
Vol.3, pp. 19-33. Translation by the Society of Occidental History, Osaka
University.
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2006
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Globalization’s Birth: The Case for 1571,” in B.K. Gills
and W. R. Thompson (eds.), Globalization and Global History, pp.232-247.
Palgrave-Macmillan.
2004
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Global Economic Unity through the mid-18th Century,” in
Markus A. Denzel (ed.), From Commercial Communication to Commercial
Integration: Middle Ages to the 19th Century, pp.81-109. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner
Verlag.
2004 (With Arturo Giráldez), “Path Dependence, Time Lags and the Birth of Globalisation:
A Critique of O’Rourke and Williamson,” European Review of Economic History 8
(2004), pp.81-108.
2002
(With Arturo Giráldez),"Ottoman Monetary History in Global Perspective," Journal
of European Economic History, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2002), pp.9-44.
2002
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Cycles of Silver: Global Economic Unity through the mid18th Century,” Journal of World History, Vol. 13, No. 2 (2002), pp.391-427.
2002
(With Arturo Giráldez and James Sobredo), “In Search of Periodization for Pacific
History: An Introduction,” in D.O. Flynn, A. Giráldez, and J. Sobredo (eds.), Studies
in Pacific History: Economics, Politics, and Migration, pp.1-22. Aldershot:
Ashgate/Variorum Press.
2002
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Cycles of Silver: Globalization as Historical Process,”
World Economics Vol.3, No.2 (April-June 2002), pp.1-16.
2002
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Conceptualizing Global Economic History: The Role of
Silver,” in Rainer Gömmel & Markus Denzel (eds.), Weltwirtscharft und
Wirtschaftsordnung: Festschrift für Jürgen Schneider, pp.101-113. Stuttgart: Franz
Steiner Verlag.
2001
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Latin American Silver and the Early Globalization of
World Trade,” in M.F. Durán-Cogan and A. Gómez-Mariana (eds), National
Identities and Sociopolitical Changes in Latin America, pp.140-159, pp.140-159.
New York: Routledge.
2001
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Introduction,” in D. Flynn, A. Giráldez, and J. Sobredo,
European Entry into the Pacific: Spain and the Manila Galleons, pp.xiii-xliii.
Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum Press.
2000
(With Arturo Giráldez), “Imperial Monetary Policy in Global Perspective,” in A. M.
Bernal (ed.), Moneda, Dinero y Credito: de la Monarquia Hispanica a la
Integracion monetaria europea, pp.385-403. Madrid: Fondacion ICO.
2000
(With Arturo Giráldez) "Money and Growth without Development: The Case of
Ming China," in A.J.H. Latham and Heita Kawakatsu (Eds.) Asian-Pacific
Dynamism,1550-2000. London: Routledge Press, pp.199-215.
1999
(With Arturo Giráldez) "Spanish Profitability in the Pacific: the Philippines in the
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Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," in Flynn. Frost and Latham (Eds.) Pacific
Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim History Since the 16th Century. London and
New York: Routledge Press, pp.23-37.
1999
(With Lionel Frost and A.J.H. Latham), "Introduction: Pacific Centuries Emerging,"
in Flynn, Frost, and Latham (eds.) Pacific Centuries: Pacific and Pacific Rim
History Since the 16th Century. London and New York: Routledge Press, pp.1-22.
1998
(With Arturo Giráldez) "The Pacific Rim's Past Deserves a Future: An Introductory
Essay," Latham, Miller, and Flynn (eds.), Essays on the Economic History of the
Pacific Rim, pp.1-18. London and New York: Routledge.
1997
(With Arturo Giráldez), "Introduction: Monetary Substances in Global Perspective,"
in D.O. Flynn and A. Giráldez (eds.), Metals and Monies in an Emerging Global
Economy. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum, pp.xv-xl.
1996
(With Arturo Giráldez), "China and the Spanish Empire," Revista de Historia
Economica XIV, no.2 (Primavera-Verano), pp.309-338.
1996
"Early Capitalism Despite New World Bullion: An Anti-Wallerstein Interpretation
of Imperial Spain," in D.O. Flynn, World Silver and Monetary History in the
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Aldershot: Ashgate/Variorum Press, XI. pp.2957.
1996
(With Arturo Giráldez), "Silk for Silver: Trade via Manila and Macao in the 17th
Century," Philippine Studies 44 (First Quarter), 52-68.
1995
(With Arturo Giráldez), "Arbitrage, China, and World Trade in the Early Modern
Period," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 38,4 (November),
pp. 429-448.
1995
(With Arturo Giráldez), "Born with a 'Silver Spoon': World Trade's Origin in 1571,"
Journal of World History Vol.6, No.2 (September), pp.201-221.
1994
(With Arturo Giráldez), "China and the Manila Galleons," in A.J.H. Latham and H.
Kawakatsu (Eds.), Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy. London and
New York: Routledge, pp. 71-90.
1991
"Comparing the Tokugawa Shogunate with Hapsburg Spain: Two Silver-Based
Empires in a Global Setting," in James D. Tracy (Ed.), The Political Economy of
Merchant Empires: . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.332-359.
1991
"Comparing the Tokugawa Shogunate with Hapsburg Spain: Two Silver-Based
Empires in a Global Setting," in Eddy H.G. Van Cauwenberghe (Ed.), Money,
Coins, and Commerce: Essays in the Monetary History of Asia and Europe. Leuven:
Leuven University Press, pp.11-46.
1991
"Final Remarks on the Keio University Conference on Monetary History," in E. van
Cauwenberghe (Ed.), ibid., pp.221-235.
1991
(With Lori Warner), "The Melting and Minting of Coins," in E. van Cauwenberghe
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(Ed.), ibid, pp.521-553.
1989
(With Kerry W. Doherty), "A Microeconomic Quantity Theory of Money and the
Price Revolution," in E. van Cauwenberghe (Ed.), Precious Metals, Coinage and the
Changes of Monetary Structures in Latin America, Europe and Asia. Leuven:
Leuven University Press, pp.185-208.
1986
"The Microeconomics of Silver and East-West Trade in the Early Modern Period,"
in W. Fisher, R.M. McInnis, and J. Schneider (Eds.), The Emergence of A World
Economy 1500-1914: Papers of the IX International Congress of Economic History.
Part I: 1500-1850., pp. 37-60. Stuttgart: Steiner-Verlag-Weisbalen-GmbH.
1984
"El desarollo del primer capitalismo a pesar de los metales preciosos de Nuevo
Mundo: Una Interpretation Anti-Wallerstein de la Espana Imperial," Revista de
Historia Economica II, no.2 (Primavera-Verano), pp. 29-58.
1984
"Use and Misuse of the Quantity Theory of Money in Early Modern
Historiography," in F. Irsigler and E. H.G. Van Cauwenberghe (Eds.),
Munzpragung, Geldumlauf und Wechselkurse/Mintage, Monetary Circulation and
Exchange Rates. Akten der C7-Section des 8th International Economic History
Congress Budapest 1982. Trier: THF-Verlag (Trierer Historische Forchungen,
Bd.7), pp.383-417.
1984
"The Population Thesis View of Sixteenth-Century Inflation Versus Economics and
History." In F. Irsigler and E. H.G. Van Cauwenberghe (Eds.), ibid, 361-382.
1983
(With David J. St. Clair), "The Social Returns to Empire -- A Note," Journal of
Economic History, XLIII (December), pp.981-82.
1983
"Sixteenth-Century Inflation from a Production Point of View," in N. Schmukler and
E. Marcus (Eds.), Inflation Through the Ages: Economic, Social, Psychological and
Historical Aspects, pp. 157-169. Brooklyn: Brooklyn College Press.
1982
(With Don Roper), "Gresham's Law and the Modern Theory of the Demand for
Money," Eastern Economic Journal VIII (July), pp. 219-35.
1982
"Fiscal Crisis and the Decline of Spain (Castile)," Journal of Economic History XLII
(March), pp. 139-47.
1980
"Spanish-American Silver and World Markets in the Sixteenth Century: A Reply,"
Economic Forum XI (Summer), pp.138-40.
1980
"La plata hispanoamerica y los mercados mundiales en el siglo XVI," Moneda y
Credito, numero 153 (Junio), pp. 19-48.
1979
"Spanish-American Silver and World Markets in the Sixteenth Century," Economic
Forum X (Winter), pp.46-71.
1979
"Silver and the Spanish Empire," in J.H. Soltow (ed.), Essays in Economic and
Business History. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, pp.197-211.
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1978
"A New Perspective on the Spanish Price Revolution: The Monetary Approach to
the Balance of Payments," Explorations in Economic History 15 (October), pp.388406.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
“Trading Patterns: Pacific,” Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History Vol. 5,
pp.1878-1883. Berkshire Publishing Group: Great Barrington, Mass., 2005.
“Gold and Silver,”
“Case Study in Global Trade: Silver,” The Cambridge World History. Volume vi:
The Construction of a Global World: 1400-1800 CE (in two parts), edited by Jerry
H. Bentley and Sanjay Subrahmanyam. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge,
UK, forthcoming
CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA ORGANIZED
2012
(with MIZUSHIMA, Tsukasa), “Agricultural Production in Monsoon Asia and
Global Markets, 1700-1945: International Trade, Merchants and Roots of
Development,” XVIth World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, South
Africa
2009
(with MIZUSHIMA, Tsukasa and George Souza), “Maritime Trade and Hinterlands
in Eighteenth-Century Asia,” World Economic History Congress in Utrecht, The
Netherlands (August), preceded by a pre-conference symposium in Osaka, May
2009.
2002
(with the World History Association), “4th PACIFIC CENTURIES Conference” in
Seoul, South Korea, August 2002; also, Program Chair for the 11th International
WHA conference.
2002
(with Sevket Pamuk, Turkey, and Om Prakash, India), “Global Monies and Price
Histories, 16th – 18th Centuries,” at the 13th International Economic History Congress
in Buenos Aires, July.
1998
(with Richard von Glahn, UCLA, and Michel Morineau, France), "Monetary History
in Global Perspective, 1500-1800," B-Session at the Twelfth World Congress of the
International Economic History Association, Seville, Spain, August 24-28.
1998
Third "PACIFIC CENTURIES" Conference (with the John Muir Center for
Regional Studies and the California History Institute), University of the Pacific,
Stockton, CA., Spring. [Funded by the University of the Pacific.]
1996
(with Lionel Frost, La Trobe University), "Second Conference on Pacific Rim
History," La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, July 5-7. [Partially funded by
La Trobe University.]
1996
(with Arturo Giráldez, UOP, and James Sobredo, University of California,
Berkeley), "California and Philippine History: 1571-1996," University of the Pacific,
Stockton, CA., April 5-7. [Funded by a grant from the California Council for the
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Humanities, and matching funds from the University of the Pacific.]
1994
(with the John Muir Center for Regional Studies and the California History
Institute), "California and the Pacific Rim: Past, Present, Future," University of the
Pacific, Stockton, CA., April 29-May 1. [Partially funded by a Presidential Grant,
University of the Pacific.]
1985
(with Eddy H.G. Van Cauwenberghe, Katholieke University of Leuven, Belgium),
"Third International Monetary History Conference," University of the Pacific,
Stockton, CA., October.
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Paris; Madrid
Seoul, South Korea; Stellenbosch, South Africa; Grand Rapids, MI
Beppu, Japan
Irvine, San Francisco, San Diego
London, Osaka, Utrecht, Riverside
Tuebingen
Cuernavaca
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Helsinki, Chapel Hill, Seattle, San Diego
Pune, India
Santa Cruz (CA), Bloomington
Irvine, Los Angeles
San Francisco, Buenos Aires, Seoul, Irvine
San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles
Davis, Victoria B.C., Madrid, Honolulu
Madrid, Seattle, Stockton
Istanbul, Washington D.C.
Stanford, Salt Lake City, Melbourne, Stockton
Chicago, Florence
Pasadena, Milan, Chicago
Brussels
New Delhi
New York, Boulder
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Las Vegas, Salt Lake City
Washington D.C., Fresno, Seattle
Bloomington, Budapest
St. Louis, Bar-Ilan
Brooklyn
Belmont, CA, Urbana-Champagne
Denver
Keynote Addresses: Asian Association of World Historians, Seoul, South Korea, 2012;
California World History Association, Riverside, 2009; World History Association, Boston,
2000.
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University of Amsterdam, Leiden University
New York University, Stanford University
Ohio State University, Washington State University
Osaka University (2), Tokyo University, Whittier College
UC Berkeley, University of British Columbia, London School of Economics,
University of Amsterdam, Oxford University (Wolfson College), University of
London (School of Oriental and African Studies)
University of Carlos III (Spain), UCLA
San Jose State University
University of Utah, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), University of
Amsterdam (Netherlands), Utrecht University (Netherlands), University of
California, Los Angeles, University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis, University of California, Berkeley
University of Nevada, Reno. Stanford-Berkeley Economic History Seminar
California State University, Hayward
Centro Ortega y Gasset (Madrid)
University of Utrecht (Netherlands)
University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Davis, Stanford U.
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Trier (Germany), University of Utrecht (Netherlands), Katholieke
University of Leuven (Belgium), University of St. Andrews (Scotland), University
of Warwick (U.K.), California State University, Hayward
University of Washington
University of Nevada, Reno
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
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1998
1999
1983
1982
Outstanding Faculty Research Award, University of the Pacific
Alexander R. Heron Distinguished Professor of Economics (Endowed), 1998present.
Fellow, the Korea Society, South Korea
Fellow, the Institute for European Studies in Freiberg (Germany)
Fulbright-Hays Research Scholar, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
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