Sumner La Croix is Professor Emeritus in the University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa Department of Economics and a research fellow with the University of Hawai‘i Economic Research Organization. His research focuses on the economic history of Hawai‘i and Australia, and institutional change and property rights in the Asia-Pacific region. He is on the editorial board of Journal of Economic History and is associate editor of Asian Economic Journal and Australian Economic History Review. His book, Hawai‘i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change, was published by the University of Chicago Press in March 2019.