John T. Dalton
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Updated: July 2023
Contact Information
Email: daltonjt [at] wfu.edu
URL: http://www.wfu.edu/~daltonjt
Major Fields of ConcentrationInternational Trade, Growth and Development, Macroeconomics, Economic History
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Minnesota, 2010
M.A., Economics, University of Minnesota, 2007
B.A., International Studies and German Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
Other Education
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna, Austria, 2003-2004
University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany, 2000-2001
Dissertation
Title: “Essays on International Trade”
Dissertation Advisors: Professor Timothy J. Kehoe and Professor Fabrizio Perri
Employment
Associate Chair, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University, 2022-Present
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University, 2016-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University, 2010-2016
Honors, Awards, and Grants
Research Affiliate, Center for the Study of Capitalism, Wake Forest University, 2021
URECA Faculty Award for Excellence in Mentorship in Research and Creative Work in the Sciences and Social Sciences, Wake Forest University, 2021
Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies, 2020
Delta Delta Delta Apple Pie Professor, Wake Forest University, 2018
Economics Reading Group Grant, Eudaimonia Institute, Wake Forest University, 2018-2019
F.M. Kirby Family Faculty Fellowship, Wake Forest University, 2017-2020
Pilot Research Grant, Wake Forest University, 2017
Delta Delta Delta Apple Pie Professor, Wake Forest University, 2016
Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies, 2014
BB&T Scholar Summer Research Grant, BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, Wake Forest University, 2013
Teaching Development Fund, Wake Forest University, 2012
Economics Reading Group Grant, BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, Wake Forest University, 2012
Dingledine Faculty Fund for the Support of International Activities, Wake Forest University, 2012
Funds for International Scholars in Spring 2012, Wake Forest University, 2012
Faculty Teaching Initiative Fund, Wake Forest University, 2011
Funds for International Scholars in Spring 2011, Wake Forest University, 2011
Delta Delta Delta Apple Pie Professor, Wake Forest University, 2010
Hayek Fund for Scholars, Institute for Humane Studies, 2010
Graduate Research Partnership Program Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2009
Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies, 2008-2010
Distinguished Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, 2007
Distinguished Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, 2006
Distinguished Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, 2005
Graduate School Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2004-2005
Fulbright Student Grantee, Austria, “Economics and European Integration,” 2003-2004
Highest Honors and Highest Distinction, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
Order of the Grail-Valkyries, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003
Phi Beta Kappa, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2002
Delta Phi Alpha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000
Teaching Experience
Instructor, Department of Economics, Wake Forest University, 2010-Present: Intermediate Macroeconomics, Intermediate Mathematical Macroeconomics, International Trade, Preparing for Economic Research, The Life and Economics of Joseph A. Schumpeter
Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, 2007-2010: Intermediate Macroeconomics, Undergraduate Writing in Economics
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota, 2005-2006: Principles of Microeconomics
Teaching Assistant, Bundesgymnasium Wenzgasse, Vienna, Austria, 2003-2004
Teaching Assistant, Curriculum in International and Area Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001-2003: Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions
Research Experience
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2016
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 2012
Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012
Visiting Scholar, Research Group for the International Economy and International Economic Policy, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, 2012
Research Analyst, Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Research Assistant for Professor Timothy J. Kehoe, 2006-2010
Research Assistant, Department of Economics, University of Mannheim, Professor Bernd Fitzenberger, 2001
Books
Creative Destruction: An Introduction (with Andrew J. Logan), under contract.
Journal Articles
The Man Who Discovered Capitalism: A Documentary on Schumpeter for Use in the Classroom (with Andrew J. Logan), International Review of Economics Education, 2022, 41, 100250. (pdf)
Schumpeter vs. Keynes Redux: "Still Not Dead" (with Lillian R. Gaeto), Southern Economic Journal, 2022, 89 (2), 569-592. (pdf)
Teaching and Learning Schumpeter: A Dialogue Between Professor and Student (with Andrew J. Logan), Review of Austrian Economics, 2022, 35 (2), 235-256. (pdf)
Using the Movie Joy to Teach Innovation and Entrepreneurship (with Andrew J. Logan), Journal of Economic Education, 2020, 51 (3-4), 287-296. (pdf)
A Vision for a Dynamic World: Reading Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy for Today (with Andrew J. Logan), The Independent Review, 2020, 24 (4), 567-577. (pdf)
Strategic Decision-Making in Hollywood Release Gaps (with Tin Cheuk Leung), Journal of International Economics, 2017, 105, 10-21. (pdf)
EU Enlargement and the New Goods Margin in Austrian Trade, Open Economies Review, 2017, 28 (1), 61-78. (pdf)
The Evolution of Taxes and Hours Worked in Austria, 1970-2005, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2015, 19 (8), 1800-1815. (pdf)
Dispersion and Distortions in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (with Tin Cheuk Leung), Journal of International Economics, 2015, 96 (2), 412-425. (pdf)
Why is Polygyny More Prevalent in Western Africa? An African Slave Trade Perspective (with Tin Cheuk Leung), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2014, 62 (4), 599-632. (pdf) Featured in Foreign Policy Magazine
The New Goods Margin in Japanese-Chinese Trade, Japan and the World Economy, 2014, 31, 8-13. (pdf)
Firm Taxation and the Endogenous Distribution of Markups (with Turkmen Goksel), Economics Letters, 2013, 121 (3), 520-523. (pdf)
Reputation and Learning: Japanese Car Exports to the United States (with Turkmen Goksel), Japan and the World Economy, 2013, 25-26, 10-23. (pdf)
Other Publications
Schumpeter in Vienna: A Study Abroad Course (with Andrew J. Logan) in Off-Campus Study, Study Abroad, and Study Away in Economics: Leaving the Blackboard Behind, edited by Joshua Hall and Kim Holder, Springer, 2021, 175-190. (pdf)
Encyclopedia Entry for Creative Destruction (with Andrew J. Logan), Libertarianism.org, January 22, 2021. (pdf)
Review of How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness by Russ Roberts, The Independent Review, 2015, 20 (2), 301-304. (pdf)
Review of Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 81 (1), 263-264. (pdf)
Review of Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression by Douglas A. Irwin, Southern Economic Journal, 2011, 78 (1), 256-257. (pdf)
Review of Power and the Governance of Global Trade: From the GATT to the WTO by Soo Yeon Kim, EH.net, 2010. (pdf)
Review of Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium by Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke, Southern Economic Journal, 2008, 75 (2), 591-592. (pdf)
Working Papers
The Slave Trade and Conflict in Africa, 1400-2000 (with Levi Boxell and Tin Cheuk Leung). (pdf)
Being Bad by Being Good: Owner and Captain Value-Added in the Slave Trade (with Tin Cheuk Leung). (pdf)
A Theory of Just-in-Time and the Growth in Manufacturing Trade (previously circulated as Explaining the Growth in Manufacturing Trade). (pdf)
Presentations
2019: Duke University; Association of Private Enterprise Education Conference, Nassau, Bahamas
2018: Liberal Arts Colleges Economic History Workshop; George Mason University
2017: Davidson College; Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics; Economic and Business History Society Conference; FRESH Workshop, Belfast, United Kingdom; European Historical Economics Society Conference, Tübingen, Germany; West Virginia University; Appalachian State University
2016: Economic and Business History Society Conference, Montreal, Canada; African Economic History Network Conference, Brighton, United Kingdom; Southern Economic Association Conference
2015: Midwest Economics Association Conference; International Trade and Finance Association Conference
2013: Clemson University; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; Midwest Macroeconomics Spring Meetings
2012: Elon University; Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, Germany; Georgia State University; Clemson University; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; St. Cloud State University; Macalester College; University of St. Thomas; University of Georgia
2011: Eastern Economic Association Conference; North Carolina State University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Workshop on Economic History of Globalization, Leuven, Belgium; Midwest International Trade Fall Meetings; NEUDC Conference; Washington and Lee University
2010: Midwest Macroeconomics Spring Meetings; Midwest International Trade Spring Meetings; Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Wake Forest University; The University of the South; Boston College; Wesleyan University
2009: XIV Workshop on Dynamic Macroeconomics, Vigo, Spain
2008: Humane Studies Fellowship Research Colloquium
Discussions
2018: Appalachian Spring Conference in World History and Economics
2016: Southern Economic Association Conference
2011: Eastern Economic Association Conference; Workshop on Economic History of Globalization, Leuven, Belgium; NEUDC Conference
2010: Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange Rate Behavior, Vanderbilt University
Professional Activities
Referee for Asian Development Review, Australian Economic Papers, Canadian Journal of Economics, Comparative Economic Studies, Contemporary Economic Policy, Economic Inquiry, Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Economic Theory, Georgetown University Press (x2), Japan and the World Economy (x3), Journal of African Economies, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Development Economics (x3), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (x2), Journal of Economic Education, Journal of Economic History, Journal of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics (x4), Mercatus Center, Open Economies Review (x3), Pearson (x5), Review of Economic Dynamics, Risks, Social Science Quarterly, Southern Economic Journal, World Development, The World Economy, Thomas Riggs and Company (x2)
Languages
English (native), German (fluent)
References
Available upon request