Born: 12-Aug-1939
Birthplace: Rochester, NY

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Economy of British America, 1607-1789

Father: John James McCusker
Mother: Helen Ida Esse
Wife: (two sons, one daughter)
Son: John Jay III
Daughter: Margaret E.
Son: Patrick W.
Wife: Ann L. Van Pelt

    University: BA, St. Bernard's College (1961)
    University: MA, University of Rochester (1963)
    University: University College London
    University: PhD, University of Pittsburgh (1970)
    Professor: University of Maryland College Park (1968-92)
    Professor: Trinity University Texas (1992-)

    American Antiquarian Society
    American Historical Association
    Organization of American Historians
    Royal Historical Society
 
    Guggenheim Fellowship

Author of books:
How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Commodity Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States
Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775: A Handbook (1978, economics)
The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 (1985, economics)
The Beginnings of Commercial and Financial Journalism: The Commodity Price Currents, Exchange Rate Currents, and Money Currents of Early Modern Europe (1991, media studies)
Essays in the Economic History of the Atlantic World (1997, economics)

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