Richard Hornbeck is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at Harvard University. His research and teaching focuses on economic history and development. Research topics include short-run and long-run adjustment to environmental change; property rights and agricultural development; agglomeration spillovers in manufacturing; barriers to urban development; labor scarcity and economic development; and market integration and economic development. Rick received his PhD in economics from MIT in 2009, and a BA in economics from the University of Chicago in 2004.