RANJIT S. DIGHE / CURRICULUM VITA / AUGUST 2013
Current position and address:
E-mail:
Professor and Chair
Department of Economics
State University of New York at Oswego
Oswego, NY 13126
[email protected]
Home page: http://www.oswego.edu/~dighe/
Blog:
http://moneyandblogging.wordpress.com/
Twitter:
@ranjitdighe
Telephone:
(315) 312-3484
Birth date:
October 26, 1965
Citizenship: United States
Fields of concentration:
Education:
American economic history, macro and monetary economics
Ph.D., economics, Yale University, 1998
B.A., Honors in economics, Oberlin College, 1987
Fellowships, honors, and awards:
President of Economic and Business History Society, 2012-2013
Elected Chair of SUNY-Oswego Department of Economics, 2010
Promotion to Full Professor, 2009
SUNY-Oswego Faculty International Travel Grants, 2007, 2008
Oswego Joint Labor/Management Committee for Professional Development and Quality of
Work Life Grant, 2005
Hagley Museum and Library Grants-in-Aid, 2004 and 2005
Rockefeller Archive Center Grant-in-Aid, 2004
Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure, 2003
SUNY-Oswego Faculty Enhancement Grants, 1999 (course development), 2004 (research)
SUNY-Oswego Discretionary Salary Increases, annual, 1998-2008
Current research:
The arrival of Keynesian economics in America
The economic ideology of New York Gov. Alfred E. Smith
The political economy of alcohol prohibition
Economic and historical explanations of American beer tastes
Refereed publications:
“Saving Private Capitalism: The U.S. Bank Holiday of 1933.” Essays in Economic and Business
History 29: 41-57 (2011). Also presented at Economic and Business Historical Society
conference, Braga, Portugal, May 2010.
“Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of an Anti-Prohibition Activist.” Social History of Alcohol
and Drugs 24(2): 97-118 (Summer 2010). And presented at Columbia University Seminar in
Economic History, November 2005; Economic and Business Historical Society conference,
Pittsburgh, April 2006; and Business History Conference, Toronto, June 2006.
“Did U.S. Wages Become Stickier Between the World Wars?” (with Elizabeth Dunne Schmitt),
The North American Journal of Economics and Finance 21(2): 165-181 (August 2010. “Special
Issue: 50 Years of the Phillips Curve”). And presented at the Economic and Business Historical
Society conference, Grand Rapids, Michigan, April 2008; Markets and Models: Policy Frontiers
in the AWH Phillips Tradition (conference), Wellington, New Zealand, July 2008; New York
State Economics Association conference, Buffalo, October 2001; Eastern Economic Association
conference, New York City, February 2001; Queen's University Economic History Workshop,
April 2003; and Rutgers University Economic History Workshop, April 2003.
“The U.S. Business Press and Prohibition.” Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 22(2): 6-20
(Spring 2008). And presented at Economic and Business Historical Society conference,
Providence, April 2007; SUNY-Oswego Economics Department Workshop, May 2007;
Canadian Economic Association conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 2007; Fourth
International Alcohol and Drug History Conference, Guelph, Ontario, August 2007; and
Dalhousie University Department of Economics Seminar, November 2007.
“The Fable of the Allegory: The Wizard of Oz in Economics: Comment.” Journal of Economic
Education 38(3): 318-324 (Summer 2007).
“Reversal of Fortune: The Rockefellers and the Decline of Business Support for Prohibition.”
Essays in Economic and Business History 24: 69-88 (2006). And presented at Economic and
Business Historical Society conference, High Point, North Carolina, April 2005.
“Efficiency Wages, Insiders and Outsiders, and the Great Depression,” Essays in Economic and
Business History 21: 71-88 (2003). And presented at Eastern Economic Association conference,
Boston, March 2002, and Economic and Business Historical Society conference, Chicago, April
2002.
The Historian's Wizard of Oz: Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary
Allegory. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2002.
“Oz, Populism, and Intent,” Essays in Economic and Business History 20: 85-95 (2002). And
presented at Economic and Business Historical Society conference, Albany, New York, April
2001.
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“Wage Rigidity in the Great Depression: Truth? Consequences?” Research in Economic History
17: 85-134 (1997).
Other publications:
“The Celtic Tiger Is Dead. Long Live the Celtic Tiger.” The Huffington Post. June 20, 2013.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ranjit-dighe/the-celtic-tiger-is-dead-_b_3472597.html
Review of Michael Lind, Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States, EH.NET,
October 2, 2012. http://eh.net/book_reviews/land-promise-economic-history-united-states
Review of John W. Malsberger & James N. Marshall, editors, The American Economic History
Reader: Documents and Readings, EH.NET, December 30, 2008.
http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1385
Review of Robert Shogan, Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal, Enterprise and Society 9(2):
383-85 (June 2008).
Combined review of 1896/Populism websites: “1896: The Presidential Campaign: Cartoons and
Commentary,” by Rebecca Edwards & Sarah DeFeo (Vassar College website, 2000) and
“Populism,” by Worth Robert Miller (Missouri State University website, 2001). Economic
History Services (EH.NET), February 12, 2006. http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1045.
Review of Gary Dean Best, Peddling Panaceas: Popular Economists and the New Deal,
EH.NET, October 9, 2005. http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0993.
“Business Support for Prohibition and Repeal,” Research Reports Online (online publication of
the Rockefeller Archive Center), 2005.
“Is Contraction Good for Major League Baseball? No,” The Costco Connection (English- and
Spanish-language editions), February 2002.
Review of James R. McGovern, And a Time for Hope: Americans in the Great Depression,
EH.NET, January 31, 2002. http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/0443.
Review of Roger G. Noll and Andrew Zimbalist, eds., Sports, Jobs, and Taxes, Eastern
Economic Journal 25 (1999).
“Fillmore, an Awful President, Helped Continue Slavery,” Response, Syracuse Post-Standard,
March 9, 1999.
“U.S. Income Gap Keeps on Growing,” column in the Burlington Free-Press, June 2, 1996.
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“The Role of Services in U.S. Production and Trade: An Analysis of Social Accounting Data for
the 1980s," with Joseph F. Francois and Kenneth A. Reinert, in The Service Productivity and
Quality Challenge, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
AIDS in Developing Countries: Issues and Policy Tradeoffs (fourth author, with Maureen A.
Lewis, Genevieve M. Kenney, and Avi Dor), Urban Institute Press, 1989.
Other papers and conference presentations:
“Al Smith, Economic Conservative?” presented at Economic and Business Historical Society
conference, April 2012.
“Business Week and the Coming of Keynesianism to America,” presented at Economic and
Business Historical Society conference, April 2008; SUNY-Oswego Economics Department
Workshop, May 2008; Post-Keynesian Conference, October 2009; Canadian Economic
Association conference, June 2011.
“A Helicopter Tour of Competing Theories of Wage Rigidity, as Applied to the Great
Depression,” SUNY-Oswego Economics Department Working Paper 1999-01; presented at
Southern Economic Association conference, November 1998.
Ph.D. dissertation:
America's High-Wage Economy in the 1930s.
Dissertation committee: Truman F. Bewley (chair), Timothy W. Guinnane, Christopher A. Sims.
Invited talks:
“Business Week and the Coming of Keynesianism to America,” Oberlin College Economics
Seminar Series, March 2012.
“Reading L. Frank Baum's Classic as a Political and Monetary Allegory,” WestportREADS
2008, Westport Public Library, Westport, CT, March 2008.
“Six Degrees of L. Frank Baum,” in “A New Look at Oz” panel, The Wonderful Weekend of Oz,
Fayetteville, NY, October 2007.
“Silver Shoes on a Yellow Brick Road: Was 'The Wizard of Oz' Really About Politics and
Economics?” Syracuse Stage, December 2003, and Le Moyne College, September 2004.
Book presentation: The Historian’s Wizard of Oz, Lunchtime at the Library series, Friends of the
Library, Oswego, NY, 2002.
Teaching positions held:
Professor, State University of New York at Oswego, 2009-
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Associate Professor, State University of New York at Oswego,
2003-2009
Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Oswego,
1997-2003
Visiting Instructor, Middlebury College, 1995-96
Instructor, Yale College, 1993
Main courses taught:
Money and Banking, 1997American Economic History, 1997-1999
American Economic History Before 1900, 1999Issues in American Economic History Since 1900, 2001The Economics of Baseball, 1996, 2000-2011
The Political Economy of Financial Crises, 2012-
Other courses taught:
Macroeconomics (intermediate), 2003, 2004
Macroeconomics (principles), 1993, 1995, 1999, 2000
Microeconomics (principles), 1996
Introduction to Social Science (honors program), 2001, 2003, 2004
Economic Statistics, 1996
Other relevant experience:
Referee, Enterprise and Society, Essays in Economic and Business History, Journal of Economic
Education, Research in Economic History, various dates, 1998-.
External grant evaluator, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2007.
Reviewer of book proposals in economic history and social history for The MIT Press, Oxford
University Press, and other publishers, various dates, 2007-.
Reviewer of textbooks in money and banking, introductory macroeconomics, and sports
economics, various dates, 1999-.
Consultancy: “Discussion of Results of Oswego STEP Survey of Sexual Violence and Related
Behavior in Oswego, Fulton, and Hannibal Schools, Homes, and Communities,” report prepared
with Roger Taylor for Oswego County public school districts, in connection with the SUNY
Oswego Office of Business and Community Relations, completed May 2013.
Interviewed about unemployment data for the Syracuse Post-Standard, January and March 2013.
Interviewed about fiscal policy and politics on CNN Radio broadcast, September 14, 2012.
Interviewed about Congressional candidates’ deficit reduction plans on WSYR-TV (Channel 9)
broadcast, November 1, 2012.
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Interviewed in New York City for 75th Anniversary DVD Edition of The Wizard of Oz by
documentary filmmaker Gary Leva in New York City, September 17, 2012.
Participant in SIFE-sponsored budget debate, The Ultimate Debt Showdown, SUNY Oswego,
November 17, 2011.
Interviewed regarding the economics of immigration for story that aired on WRVO-FM, August
5, 2011.
Interviewed regarding alleged political and economic symbolism in The Wizard of Oz for
documentary The Wizard of Oz – The True Story (Moondance Films), which aired on BBC-TV
on April 28, 2011.
In-studio guest commentator for WRVO-FM’s broadcast of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s
State of the State address, January 5, 2011.
Interviewed regarding the Bush tax cuts on WRVO-FM for story that aired on September 9,
2010.
Interviewed on WRVO-FM about the local and national labor market, August 25, 2010.
In-studio guest commentator for WRVO-FM’s broadcast of New York Gov. David Paterson’s
State of the State address, January 4, 2010.
Discussant in SIFE-sponsored panel, “The Financial Crisis One Year Later: A Lesson in
Recession," SUNY Oswego, November 18, 2009.
Discussant in panel for WRVO-FM Community Forum about federal stimulus spending and the
economy, SUNY Oswego Metro Center, June 1, 2009.
Discussant in panel on the economic crisis, Professional Journalists and Communicators of
Oswego County, Oswego, February 19, 2009.
Interviewed regarding the politics of The Wizard of Oz, for BBC World Service radio program,
January 29, 2009.
Discussant in panel on the economic crisis, held at SUNY-Oswego, October 21, 2008.
Quoted on CNN regarding macroeconomic and monetary news, 2008.
Interviewed in radio segment titled “MLB Deal-Making and Lax Steroid Testing Rules,” on
National Public Radio’s “Day to Day.” Aired March 17, 2005.
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Interviewed on “The News Hour With Jim Lehrer,” on PBS-TV, regarding historical perspectives
on the Federal Reserve. Aired March 20, 2001.
Multiple appearances on WRVO-FM (National Public Radio affiliate), 2009-, including coverage
of the governor’s State of the State Address and a Community Forum featuring a U.S.
Congressman.
Interviewed for and quoted in numerous newspaper and magazine articles about
macroeconomics, monetary economics, and sports economics, 2000-.
Volunteer, Ask the Professor (online service of the Economic History Association), 2000-.
Research Assistant, The Urban Institute (Health Policy division), Washington, DC, 1987-89.
Professional and academic memberships: Economic and Business Historical Society
(President, 2012-2013; member of board of trustees,
2005-)
World Economics Association
Phi Beta Kappa
References:
Available upon request