John Joseph Wallis is Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research.

His books include Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (with Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast), American Economic Growth and Standards of Living Before the Civil War (with Robert Gallman), and In The Shadow of Violence: The Problem of Development in Limited Access Societies (with Douglass C. North, Stephen Webb, and Barry R. Weingast).