Author

Thomas Weiss is emeritus professor of economics at the University of Kansas and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was co-editor of the Journal of Economic History and is a past president of the Economic History Association. He has published on a variety of topics in U.S. economic history, such as the growth of the service industries in the United States, industrialization in the antebellum South, economic growth before 1860, economic growth in the British North American colonies, and most recently on the economic history of tourism and the dining history of James Bond.