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John J. Wallis
Professor of Economics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-405-3552
Email: wallis@econ.umd.edu
Professor John Joseph Wallis received his PhD in economics from the
University of Washington in 1981. After a two year post-doctoral fellowship at
the University Chicago he came to the University of Maryland Department of
Economics in 1983. He has been a Research Associate at the National Bureau of
Economic Research since 1989. Professor Wallis is an economic historian who
specializes in the public finance of American governments, and more generally
on the institutional development of governments and economies. He teaches
graduate and undergraduate courses in American Economic History (Economics 611
and 311) and a graduate class on the theory of the state (Economics 613).
Recent publications include “Constitutions, Corporations, and Corruption.”
Journal of Economic History, March 2005 and “The Concept of Systematic
Corruption in American History” in Glaeser and Goldin, ed. Corruption and
Reform: Lessons from America’s Economic History, University of Chicago Press,
2006. A CV
and a home page are also available.
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