Peter Temin (; 17 December 1937 – 4 August 2025) was an American economist and economic historian, who served as the Gray Professor of Economics at MIT, where he was once the head of the Economics Department.

Education

Temin was born in Philadelphia

Selected publications

  • Iron and Steel in Nineteenth Century America: An Economic Inquiry. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1964.
  • The Jacksonian Economy. New York: W.W. Norton, 1969.
  • The New Economic History (ed.). Penguin Books, 1972.
  • Causal Factors in American Economic Growth in the Nineteenth Century. London: Macmillan, 1975.
  • Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? New York: W.W. Norton, 1976.
  • Reckoning with Slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976 (with Paul David, Herbert Gutman, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright).
  • Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980.
  • The Fall of The Bell System: A Study in Prices and Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
  • Inside the Business Enterprise: Historical Perspectives on the Use of Information (ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
  • Industrialization in North America (ed.), Vol. 6 of R. A. Church and E. A. Wrigley (eds.), The Industrial Revolutions. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.
  • The European Economy Between the Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997 (with Charles Feinstein and Gianni Toniolo), translated into Italian as L'economia europea tra le due guerre (Laterza, Roma-Bari 1998).
  • Learning by Doing in Markets, Firms, and Nations (eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998 (with Naomi R. Lamoreaux and Daniel M. G. Raff).
  • Elites, Minorities, and Economic Growth (eds.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999 (with Elise S. Brezis).
  • Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England (ed.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.
  • The World Economy Between the Wars. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007 (with [Charles Feinstein and] Gianni Toniolo).
  • Reasonable Rx: How to Lower Drug Prices. FT Press, 2008 (with Stan Finkelstein).
  • Prometheus Shackled: Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700, Oxford University Press, USA, 2013 (with Hans-Joachim Voth).
  • The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It, Princeton University Press, 2013 (with David Vines).
  • Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy, co-author David Vines, MIT Press (2014)
  • The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy, MIT Press (March 2017)

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