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Professor of History
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Address:
Funger Hall 615
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Phone:
(202) 994-6052
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Email: whbecker@gwu.edu
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William H. Becker
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Degrees:
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1969
B.A., Muhlenberg College, 1964
Area of Expertise: Business history; Business-government relations; History of management; Comparative business history
Current Research: History of 20th-century American management; Washington Law Firms and Business-Government Relations
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Publications: "The Dot.Com Revolution in Historical Perspective," Enterprise et Histoire (Paris), September 2006.
"The United States and the Search for a New Economic Monetary System in the 1970s," chapter in The Strategic Triangle: France, Germany, and the United States in the Shaping of Europe, eds. Helga Haftendorn, et al. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
The State, the Market, and the Export-Import Bank of the United States, 1934-2000 with William McClenahan (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
The Voice of the Market: A History of the National Petroleum Council, with Joseph A. Pratt and William M. McClenahan, Jr. (Texas A&M Press, 2003)
Professional Activities:
Consultant, The World Bank; Chairman, NASA History Advisory Board; Board of Trustees, Hagley Museum and Library; Member, Editorial Board, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era; Series Editor,"Business, Society, and the State,"The University of North Carolina Press
Other Organization: Business History Conference; Economic History Association;
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