{"id":217953,"date":"2025-06-25T14:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=217953"},"modified":"2025-06-25T14:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:01:09","slug":"economist-recognized-global-economic-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/25\/economist-recognized-global-economic-research\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>UH<\/abbr> economist recognized for contributions to global economic research"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_185136\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185136\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-economics-sumner-la-croix-honor.jpg\" alt=\"person headshot over a photo of a building\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-185136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-economics-sumner-la-croix-honor.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-economics-sumner-la-croix-honor-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-economics-sumner-la-croix-honor-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sumner La Croix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trustees of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cliometrics.org\/\">Cliometric Society<\/a> have elected University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa Professor Emeritus Sumner La Croix as a fellow of the society, an honor reserved for scholars whose work in economic history is both original and influential. The Cliometric Society is a global organization dedicated to the quantitative study of economic history.<\/p>\n<p>La Croix, affiliated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/uhero.hawaii.edu\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Economic Research Organization<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economics.hawaii.edu\/\">Department of Economics<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/socialsciences.manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">College of Social Sciences<\/a>, has published extensively on the economic history of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and Australia, institutional change and property rights in the Asia-Pacific region, and public policy issues in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was really surprised and pleased to receive this honor,&rdquo; La Croix said. &ldquo;It helps to highlight the importance of in-depth research on former British and American colonies in the Asia-Pacific region and the need to understand the different journeys taken by Indigenous and immigrant populations over the last 200 years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He currently serves as associate editor of the <em>Asia-Pacific Economic History Review<\/em> and is president of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand. His 2019 book, <em><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change<\/em>, was published by the University of Chicago Press.<\/p>\n<p>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> stories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/16\/la-croix-vp-eha\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> economist elected to national economics position<\/a>, October 16, 2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/09\/06\/australia-copper-boom-award-paper\/\"><abbr>UH<\/abbr> economics expert co-authors award-winning paper<\/a>, September 6, 2022<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/09\/clio-can-sumner-la-croix\/\">Economics Professor Emeritus Sumner La Croix awarded the Clio Can<\/a>, June 9, 2017<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sumner La Croix is honored for his influential work in economic history and Asia-Pacific research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":185136,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[301,197,598,1467,1363,1026,9,343],"class_list":["post-217953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-social-sciences","tag-economics","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-manoa-excellence-in-research","tag-manoa-research","tag-social-science","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uhero","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/manoa-economics-sumner-la-croix-honor.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217961,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217953\/revisions\/217961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}