David Galenson

David Galenson is an economic historian.

He is author of Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity (Princeton University Press, 2006), Painting Outside The Lines: Patterns of Creativity in Modern Art (Harvard University Press, 2001), Traders, Planters and Slaves: Market Behavior in Early English America (Cambridge University Press, 1986), and White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis (Cambridge University Press, 1981).

His most recent work examines the economics of creativity.