Fishback Featured in History Behind News Podcast

Price Fishback, APS Professor of Economics in the Eller College of Management, was featured in a September 30 episode of the History Behind News Podcast.

In this episode, titled History of Housing Bubbles, Homeloans and Segregation, the Ongoing…, Fishback speaks about the U.S.’s history of real estate booms and busts and the history of home loans.

He also talks about the history of government involvement in mortgages and homes and how the U.S. government has been involved in U.S. real estate since the Great Depression.

Fishback joined the Eller College of Management as associate professor in 1990 after teaching at the University of Georgia. He was appointed the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics in 2010. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Washington in 1983. His research area of interest is the political economy of Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s, examining both the determinants of New Deal spending and loans and their impact on local economies throughout the U.S. He also works on state labor legislation during the Progressive Era, the American Economy during World War II and changes in agriculture in response to climate, government policy and technology. Fishback is also a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic History at Australian National University, a CAGE Fellow at Warwick University, a program scholar for the Hoover Program on Regulation and the Rule of Law, a fellow at the TIAA-CREF Institute and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research