Robert A. McGuire

Robert A. McGuire was born in Long Beach, California and grew up in Lakewood. He attended Paramount High School where he ran around with a group of rowdy friends while still making the Honor Roll and lettering in cross-country and track. His education continued at Rio Hondo College in Whittier, Long Beach State, and at the University of Washington in Seattle where he received a Ph.D. in economics.

Robert McGuire is an economist with a strong historical bent. He is currently Adjunct Research Professor at the University of Akron in Ohio (but lives in Brea, California). He has previously been on the faculty at Ball State University in Muncie, IN and held visiting appointments at Ohio State, Washington State, and the Universities of California at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, and Santa Cruz. He is an avid hiker, runner, skier, traveler, and wine collector who spends two to three weeks each summer in Europe, as well as travels elsewhere during the year, but he is always home in Southern California for the Christmas and New Years holidays.

Robert McGuire's research interests are multi-faceted, examining economic development issues that integrate economics, history, and microbiology perspectives, as well as examining various constitutional issues that integrate economics, history, and politics. His most recent book is _Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress: Diseases and Economic Development_ (MIT Press 2011).