Vincent Geloso

Bates College

Visiting Professor

Department of Economics

Lewiston, ME

United States

University of Western Ontario - King's University College

266 Epworth Avenue

London, Ontario N6A 2M3

Canada

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1.

James M. Buchanan and the Political Economy of Desegregation

Southern Economic Journal, 2018
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 17 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 07 Aug 2019
Phillip Magness, Art Carden and Vincent Geloso
American Institute for Economic Research, Brock School of Business, Samford University and Bates College
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Public Choice, James M. Buchanan, Segregation

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Inequality: How Much Is There and Is It All Bad?

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 02 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2017
Vincent Geloso and Steven Horwitz
Bates College and Ball State University
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Inequality, Public Choice, Political Economy

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Situating Southern Influences in James M. Buchanan and Modern Public Choice Economics

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Jul 2017
Art Carden, Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
Brock School of Business, Samford University, Bates College and American Institute for Economic Research
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James M. Buchanan, Democracy, John C. Calhoun

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How Pronounced Is the U-Curve? Revisiting Income Inequality in the United States, 1917-1945

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 13 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2018
Vincent Geloso, Phillip Magness, John Moore and Philip Schlosser
Bates College, American Institute for Economic Research, Northwood University and Wayne State University
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Inequality, Top Incomes, US Economic History

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The Paradox of Good Health and Poverty: Assessing Cuban Health Outcomes under Castro

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 May 2017
Vincent Geloso and Gilbert Berdine
Bates College and Texas Tech University - Health Science Center
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Health Indicators; Public Choice Theory; Public Economics; Cuban Economy; Health Outcomes

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Gordon Tullock Meets Phineas Gage: The Political Economy of Lobotomies in the United States

NDSU Public Choice and Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 18-2
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 20 May 2019
Raymond March and Vincent Geloso
North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics and Bates College
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lobotomies, economics of science, public choice, political economy, mental health

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The Lightship in Economics

Public Choice vol. 176, no. 3 (2018): 479-506.
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 24 Apr 2018 Last Revised: 06 Nov 2018
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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government failure; lighthouse; lightship; market failure; public goods

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A Price Index for Canada, 1688 to 1850

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A Price Index for Canada, 1688 to 1850

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Dec 2016
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Canadian economic history, price history, price index

A Price Index for Canada, 1688 to 1850

Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, Vol. 52, Issue 2, pp. 526-560, 2019
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 May 2019
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Free Banking and Economic Growth in Lower Canada, 1817-1851

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Free Banking and Economic Growth in Lower Canada, 1817-1851

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2014
Mathieu Bédard and Vincent Geloso
Montreal Economic Institute and Bates College
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Economic Growth, Free Banking, Price Level, Private Money

Was Economic Growth Likely in Lower Canada?

Accepted for publication in Journal of Private Enterprise
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2017
Mathieu Bédard and Vincent Geloso
Montreal Economic Institute and Bates College
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Economic Growth, Free Banking, Price Level, Private Money

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Multilingualism and the Decline of French in Quebec

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Nov 2016
Alex Arsenault Morin and Vincent Geloso
Queen's University (Canada), Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Economics, Students and Bates College
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Linguistic demography; Language Policy; Human Capital

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The Cuban Revolution and Infant Mortality: A Synthetic Control Approach

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 14 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 28 Oct 2018
Jamie Bologna Pavlik and Vincent Geloso
Texas Tech University - Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics and Bates College
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Infant Mortality, Cuba, Castro Regime, Health Economics

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Were Wages That Low? Strasbourg Wages and Welfare Ratios before 1775

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 09 Jan 2017
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Welfare Ratios; French Economic History

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State Capacity and Economic Development: Causal Mechanism or Correlative Filter?

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Dec 2018
Vincent Geloso and Alexander William Salter
Bates College and Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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State Capacity, Economic Development, Public Goods

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Trends in Income Inequality in the Interwar United States: Testing Reliability with State Income Tax Data

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 May 2017 Last Revised: 19 Feb 2019
Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
Bates College and American Institute for Economic Research
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Inequality, Top Incomes, US Economic History

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Douglass North, Shipping Productivity and Institutions

A chapter in 'A Companion to Douglass North', Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 16 Jun 2018
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Douglass North

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The Fall and Rise of Inequality: Disaggregating Narratives

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Mar 2017
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Inequality, Measurements, Aggregation Bias

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Social Justice, Public Goods and Rent-Seeking in Narratives

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 27 Dec 2018
Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
Bates College and American Institute for Economic Research
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social justice, relational equality, open access order, rent-seeking

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Trade or Raid: Acadian Settlers and Native Indians Before 1755

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Aug 2017
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Rent-seeking, First Nations, Economic history, Violence, Frontier economies

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Markets for Rebellions? The Rebellions of 1837-38 in Lower Canada

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 29 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2019
Vincent Geloso and Vadim Kufenko
Bates College and University of Hohenheim - Institute of Economics
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Rebellions, Insurgency, Canadian Economic History, Quebec Economic History, Patriots, 1837 Rebellions

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Canadian Economic Growth during the Colonial Era and International Comparisons

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 01 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2018
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Canadian Economic History, GDP, Economic Growth, Living Standards

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Why Consider the Lighthouse a Public Good?

International Review of Law and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2019
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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government failure; lighthouse; pilotage; market failure; public goods

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The Wild Card: Colonial Paper Money in French North America, 1685 to 1719

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2018
Vincent Geloso and Mathieu Bédard
Bates College and Montreal Economic Institute
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redemption theory, Canadian economic history, money supply, monetary economics

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The Lighthouse Debate and the Dynamics of Interventionism

The Review of Austrian Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 May 2018
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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Entrepreneurship; Dynamics of Interventionism; Lighthouses; Regulation

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Government and the Economic History of American Income Inequality

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Dec 2017
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Inequality, Living Standards, Public Chocie

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British Public Debt, the Acadian Expulsion and the American Revolution

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 03 May 2017
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Public choice theory, Acadian expulsion, American Revolution

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Empire Effect versus Crowding Out Effect: Shipping Productivity in the North Atlantic from 1764 to 1860

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 06 May 2017
Jari A. Eloranta, Vincent Geloso and Vadim Kufenko
Appalachian State University, Bates College and University of Hohenheim - Institute of Economics
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empire effect; crowding-out; defense economics; British navy

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Distinct within North America: Living Standards in French Canada, 1688 to 1775

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 15 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 06 Jul 2017
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Economic History, Canadian Economic History, Economic Growth

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Relative Costs of Living, for Richer and Poorer, 1688-1914

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Apr 2019
Vincent Geloso and Peter H. Lindert
Bates College and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
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Cost of living, inequality, price history, economic history

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Hayek and Economic History

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Feb 2019
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Economic History, F.A. Hayek

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Electricity in Quebec Before Nationalization, 1920 to 1939

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Oct 2016
Vincent Geloso and Germain Belzile
Bates College and HEC Montreal - Institute of Applied Economics
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Electricity, Canadian Economic History, Monopoly

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The Bias Against Presidential Restraint

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Frank Garmon Jr., Vincent Geloso and Phillip Magness
Christopher Newport University - Department of Leadership and American Studies, Bates College and American Institute for Economic Research
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Presidential Studies, American History, American Politics, Divided Government

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Adjusting Inequalities for Regional Price Parities: Importance and Implications

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 07 Mar 2017
Vincent Geloso and Youcef Msaid
Bates College and Independent
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Regional price parities, inequality, spatial distribution

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Did Separatism Hurt Quebec's Economy? The Causal Effects of the Election of the Parti Québécois in 1976

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Jan 2019
Vincent Geloso and Kevin B. Grier
Bates College and Texas Tech University
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Quebec, Separatism, Synthetic Control Method, Political Instability, Economic Performance

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The Seeds of Divergence: The Economy of French North America, 1688 to 1760

Number of pages: 231 Posted: 18 Jan 2017
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Canadian Economic History, Economic Divergence

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Collusion and Combines in Canada, 1880–1890

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Nov 2018
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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canadian economic history, competition policy, anti-combines act

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Predation, Seigneurial Tenure and Development in French Colonial America

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 12 Feb 2018
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Seigneurial tenure, divergence, colonial origins, predatory state, Canada, economic history

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The Emperor Has No Clothes: Improving Deflators for Canadian GNP, 1870-1900

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 21 May 2018
Michael Hinton and Vincent Geloso
Independent and Bates College
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Canadian Economic History, National Accounts, Economic Growth

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Market Theory and the Lighthouse System

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Aug 2018
Rosolino Candela and Vincent Geloso
Mercatus Center at George Mason University and Bates College
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Israel Kirzner; Lighthouses; Efficiency; Regulation

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Monopsony and Industrial Development in Nineteenth Century Quebec: The Impact of Seigneurial Tenure

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 12 Nov 2018
Vincent Geloso, Vadim Kufenko and Alex Arsenault Morin
Bates College, University of Hohenheim - Institute of Economics and Queen's University (Canada), Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Economics, Students
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Canadian Economic History, Monopsony, Labor Coercion, Economic Development

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Rent-Seeking for Madness: The Political Economy of Mental Institutionalization in America, 1880 to 1923

NDSU Public Choice and Private Enterprise Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Jul 2019
Vincent Geloso and Raymond March
Bates College and North Dakota State University - Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
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Rent-Seeking, Health Policy, American Economic History, Asylums

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Who are the Champions? Inequality, Institutions and the Olympics

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Jul 2019
Vadim Kufenko and Vincent Geloso
University of Hohenheim - Institute of Economics and Bates College
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Olympics, Inequality, Economic Freedom, Institutions

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Was (English) Canada Poorer than the United States? Living Standards Circa 1830 to Circa 1845

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Oct 2018
Vincent Geloso and Gonzalo Macera
Bates College and Texas Tech University
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Canadian Economic History, Living Standards, Quebec, Ontario

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Inter‐City Bus Services in Canada – Time for Deregulation

Economic Affairs, Vol. 32, Issue 1, pp. 38-42, 2012
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 04 Feb 2012
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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Deirdre Mccloskey, Kirznerian Growth and the Role of Social Networks

Economic Affairs, Vol. 35, Issue 3, pp. 453-463, 2015
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 28 Oct 2015
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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economic history, entrepreneurship, social networks

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Ticket Scalping as a Means of Managing Risk

Economic Affairs, Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp. 335-339, 2014
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Oct 2014
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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resale, risk management, ticket prices

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Does Size Matter? Implications of Household Size for Economic Growth and Convergence

Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 65, Issue 4, pp. 437-443, 2018
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 06 Aug 2018
Vadim Kufenko, Vincent Geloso and Klaus Prettner
University of Hohenheim - Institute of Economics, Bates College and Institute of Economics
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Supply Management and Household Poverty in Canada

Posted: 30 Nov 2017
Pierre Desrochers, Vincent Geloso and Alexandre Moreau
University of Toronto - Department of Geography, Bates College and Independent

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Supply Management, Agricultural Production Quotas, Canadian Household Expenses, Inequality, Poverty

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The Turnover‐Reducing Effects of the Minimum Wage May Harm the Economy

Economic Affairs, Vol. 36, Issue 3, pp. 318-325, 2016
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 25 Oct 2016
Vincent Geloso
Bates College
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labour turnover, minimum wages, productivity