Bio

Carl Mosk is professor of economics. He specializes in economic history (primarily the economic histories of Asia and Europe), population economics and economic development. He has published books dealing with the population history of Japan and Sweden, labor markets in Japan, the biological standard of living in Japan, the relationship between international trade and international migration during the 19th and 20th centuries, and the economic development of Japan and China. He teaches courses on North American economic history, international trade, population economics and the economic history and economic development of the Pacific Rim. He maintains an active website www.carlmosk,com where he posts course syllabi and links to his publications.

Publications

Selected Publications (for a complete list, check Dr. Mosk's Website):

Books:

• Japanese Industrial History: Technology, Urbanization and Economic Growth (Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2001)
• Trade and Migration in the Modern World (London: Routledge, 2005)
• Japanese Economic Development: Markets, Norms, Structures (London: Routledge, 2007)
• Traps Embraced or Escaped: Elites in the Economic Development of Modern Japan and China (Singapore: World Scientific, forthcoming)

Published Papers and Book Chapters:

• "Secular Improvement in Well-Being: Britain and Japan Compared,” (2000) Jahrbuch fur Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2000/1: 113-127.
• “Small-scale Production and Urban Expansion in Industrializing Japan: Nagoya, 1890-1940,” in Anders Brandstrom and Lars-Goran Tederbrand, eds. Population Dynamics During Industrialization (Umea: Umea University Press, 2000): 227-270.        
• “Economic and Demographic Integration in the Asia-Pacific and Structural Change in Japan and Pacific Canada,” in Robert Bedeski and John Schofield, eds. Prospects for Development in the Asia-Pacific Area (Victoria: Western Geographical Press, 2000): 115-135.

• “Osaka and Tokyo,” in Masao Nakamura [ed] The Japanese Business and Economic System: History and Prospects for the 21st Century (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave, 2001): 180-222.
• “Inequality, Ideology, Autarky, and Structural Change: The Biological Standard of Living in Japan Between the World Wars,” The Japanese Economy, Vol. 28, no. 2 (Issue dated March-April 2000 issued in 2001): 39-75.
• “Economic Assimilation of Japanese Immigrants in North America: The Importance of Country of Origin as Well as Country of Destination,” in J. Kess, H. Noro, M. Ayukawa and H. Lansdowne [eds] Changing Japanese Identities in Multicultural Canada (Victoria: Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 2003): pp. 557-563.
• “Editors’ Introduction” (with David Giles) Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Volume 13, #4 (December, 2004): 359-370. [Special issue on trade and economic development.]

Courses

ECON 306, International Economics

ECON 327, Economic History of North America

ECON 328, Economic History of the Pacific Rim

ECON 428, Economic Development of the Postwar Pacific Rim

ECON 429, Population Economics

Research Projects

• Trade, Migration and Globalization, 1880-1990
• The Economics of Nationalism
• Urbanization in the Asia-Pacific, 1850-2000
• Political Economy of Economic Development
• Comparative Analysis of Chinese and Japanese Economic Development

Links

Population Research Group