Stephen Haber is A.A. and Jeanne Welch Milligan Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is also Professor of Political Science, Professor of History, and Professor of Economics (by courtesy), and is a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, a Senior Fellow of the Stanford Center for International Development, and Research Economist at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Haber’s research spans a number of academic disciplines, including comparative politics, financial economics, and economic history.