Dr. Daniel Schiffman received his B.A. at New York University and his Ph.D. at Columbia University. His Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “Shattered Rails, Ruined Credit: Financial Fragility and Railroad Operations in the Great Depression,” was awarded the Allan Nevins Prize of the Economic History Association, for best dissertation in the economic history of North America.

Dr. Schiffman specializes in economic history and the history of economic thought. He has published a number of studies on the evolution of monetary doctrine in Jewish religious thought, from the Middle Ages through the 20th century.