RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

The Analysis and Implementation of Public Policy (an undergraduate text in the economics of policy analysis).
 

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:

A. URBAN ECONOMIC ISSUES

"The Economic Impact of Dickinson College on Carlisle, PA, 1995," June 1995 (presented to Economics Department Common Hour, 10/18/95, and to the Alumni Council, 10/28/95).

Asylum Hill Labor Market Survey, April-June, 1977, (Hartford: Asylum Hill, Inc., 1977).

B. UNIONS

"Union Political Power Across Legislation: Further Evidence" Stanley G. Long, ed., Pennsylvania Economic Association: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting, (Johnstown, PA: Pennsylvania Economic Association, November 1991), pp. 17-29. (presented at the Pennsylvania Economic Association meetings, May 24, 1991).

"PAC Contributions Strategies for Business and Labor: Tests of A Translog Cournot Model", Pennsylvania Economic Association: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting, pp. 454-469 (presented at the Pennsylvania Economic Association meetings, 6/6/92)

"Business and Labor PAC Contributions: Theory and Evidence" submitted to Studies in Economic Analysis, 11/90 (rejected 11/91).

"A Utility-Production Model of Union Behavior" Journal of Labor Research, Winter 1989 (Previously presented at the Eastern Economic Association meetings, March 1987).

"Tests of Cartter's Wage-Preference Path" Studies in Economic Analysis, Fall 1987.

"Secondary Picketing Under the Railway Labor Act: Comment" Pennsylvania Economic Association: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Meeting, p. 291; (presented at the Pennsylvania Economic Association Meetings, 6/6/92)
 

C. COST-BENEFIT DISCOUNTING

"Multigenerational Value: Modifying the Modified Discounting Method" Project Appraisal Vol. 6 No. 2 (June 1991), pp. 101-08.

Multigenerational Value: Merging Intergenerational Equity and Discounting" Stanley G. Long, ed., Pennsylvania Economic Association: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting, (Johnstown, PA: Pennsylvania Economic Association, November 1991), pp. 668-683. (presented to the Pennsylvania Economic Association, May 25, 1991).
 

D. AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS

(with Gordon Bergsten), "The Market for Economic Thought: An Austrian View of Neoclassical Dominance" History of Political Economy, Winter 1990.

(with Gordon Bergsten), "An Austrian Approach to the Market for Economic Thought: Austrian vs. Neoclassical Economics" presented at the Eastern Economic Association meetings, March 1987.