Lance E. Davis

Lance Edwin Davis (November 3, 1928 – January 20, 2014) was the Mary Stillman Harkness Professor of Social Science at the California Institute of Technology. He researched the economic history of financial markets and institutional and technological change. His work has been recognised by The Cliometric Society via their awarding him a ''Clio Can'' in recognition his ''of exceptional support of cliometrics''.

Davis was also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He earned a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1956 with thesis titled ''United States Financial Intermediaries in the Early 19th Century: Four Case Studies''. Provided by Wikipedia