Salsbury, Stephen

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SALSBURY, Stephen

SALSBURY, Stephen. American, b. 1931. Genres: Economics, History, Biography. Career: Professor of Economic History, and Dept. Chairman, since 1977, and Dean of the Faculty of Economics 1980-87 and since 1990, University of Sydney. Assistant Professor, 1963-67, Associate, Professor, 1968-70, and Professor of History, 1970-77, University of Delaware, Newark. Publications: The State, The Investor, and the Railroad: The Boston and Albany, 1825-1869, 1967; (with A. D. Chandler) Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation, 1971; (ed.) Essays on the History of the American West, 1975; No Way to Run a Railroad: The Untold Story of the Penn Central, 1982; (with Kay Sweeney) The Bull, the Bear and the Kangaroo: The History of the Sydney Stock Exchange, 1988; (with Kay Sweeney) Sydney Stockbrokers: Biographies of Members of the Sydney Stock Exchange, 1992. Died 1998.