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vanvleck@csufresno.edu

Va Nee L. Van Vleck is an affiliate scientist at ARG who teaches at
California State University, Fresno.  Van Vleck's interests include
the co-occurrence of poor labor market outcomes, health impacts, and
substance abuse behaviors; and community-level programs and
policies to address alcohol- and drug-impaired driving.

She is an economist with a master's from Columbia University and a
doctorate from the University of Iowa.

Selected Publications

Dissertation: Reassessing Technological Backwardness: Absolving the Silly, Little, Bobtailed Coal Car

(Received the Economic History Association’s Alexander Gerschenkron Prize in (non-North American) economic history, 1994)

In Defense (Again) of ‘Silly Little Bobtailed’ Coal Wagons: A Reply to Peter Scott,” Journal of Economic History 59(4): 1081-84.

Delivering Coal by Road and Rail in Britain: The Efficiency of the Silly Little Bobtailed Coal Wagons, Journal of Economic History 57(1): 139-160; reprinted in Daniel F. Spulber, ed., Famous Fables in Economics: Myths of Market Failures, Blackwell, 2001.

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