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Douglas Puffert
Associate Professor of Economics
Dates at King's: 2007-present
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Office: 330 Fifth Ave.
Phone: (212) 659-7200 ext: 3159
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Dr. Douglas Puffert received his doctorate at Stanford University. He has taught at major universities in the United States, England, and Germany, including as Visiting Professor of Economic History at Berlin’s historic Humboldt University. Early in his career he worked three months as a consultant at the World Bank in Washington, and he spent a further six years in Washington with the U.S. International Trade Commission. Puffert has been invited to speak at academic conferences in five European countries, Turkey, and Israel, and in 2011 he was the keynote speaker at a business and engineering conference in Korea. He came to King’s out of an interest to participate in the mission of the PPE program. |
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Puffert has published in such leading journals as the Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, and the National Tax Journal. His articles have been frequently cited, and he has written chapters for eight scholarly books. As a recognized expert in the economic theory of “path dependence,” he has been invited to write articles in several reference works, most notably the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. His recent book, which applies the theory of path dependence to the history of railways, was published by a leading academic publisher. According to reviewers, the book will become a “classic case study,” and it is “rigorously analytical, but the analysis never stands in the way of a good story.”
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Puffert is a member in the Association of Christian Economists and a contributor to its journal, Faith and Economics. In his free time, Dr. Puffert enjoys reading a wide variety of literature, singing in his church choir, swimming, cycling, hiking, and occasionally writing poetry. Dr. Puffert met his wife Irene Zimmer in Munich, while he was teaching there and she was completing a research doctorate in veterinary medicine. She makes sure that he keeps fluent in German.
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Degree |
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| B.A. Economics and History |
University of Washington, Seattle |
1981 |
| Diploma in Christian Studies |
Regent College, Vancouver |
1982 |
| Ph.D. Economics |
Stanford University |
1991 |
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Selected Publications |
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| Tracks across Continents, Paths through History. University of Chicago Press, March 2009. |
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| “Path Dependence,” in R. Whaples, ed., EH.Net Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History, 2003. |
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| “The Standardization of Track Gauge on North American Railways, 1830-1890,” Journal of Economic History, Dec. 2000. |
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| “Social Security: A Financial Appraisal Across and Within Generations,” with Michael J. Boskin, Lawrence J. Kotlikoff, and John B. Shoven, National Tax Journal, 1987. |
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