Peter H. Lindert
Economic historian Peter H. Lindert is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California – Davis and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His works relating to the DIAS event include his prize-winning book Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century (2004), the book Unequal Gains: American Growth and Inequality since 1700 (2016, with Jeffrey Williamson), and now Making Social Spending Work (2021).