Stanley Lewis Engerman was an American economist and economic historian.
13 Facts About Stanley Engerman
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Stanley Engerman was known for his quantitative historical work along with Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Fogel.
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Stanley Engerman served as president of the Social Science History Association as well as president of the Economic History Association.
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Stanley Engerman was professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester, where he taught classes in economic history and the economics of sports and entertainment.
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Stanley Engerman's father, Irving Engerman, was a wholesale furniture salesman while his mother, Edith Engerman, was a homemaker.
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Stanley Engerman received his bachelor's and master's degrees in accounting from New York University in 1956 and 1958 before earning a PhD in economics in 1962 from Johns Hopkins University.
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Stanley Engerman started working at the University of Rochester in 1963 where he was a professor of economics until his retirement in 2017.
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Stanley Engerman co-authored an article entitled "History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World" with Kenneth Sokoloff, which can be found in The Journal of Economic Perspectives.
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Sokoloff and Stanley Engerman go in-depth and argue that the economic trajectory of former New World colonies over the past 300 years was largely determined by various facets of their natural environments.
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Sokoloff and Stanley Engerman focus mainly on the effects of the colonies' soil qualities.
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Sokoloff and Stanley Engerman conclude that areas such as the United States, which emphasized equality and access to public education, were able to progress faster economically than areas such as Cuba which did not allow such opportunities to its residents.
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Stanley Engerman was married to Judith Rader Engerman until she died in 2019.
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Stanley Engerman died from myelodysplastic syndrome at his home in Watertown, Massachusetts, on May 11,2023, at the age of 87.