Professor of Economics
Economics, CBA 359P.O. Box 880489
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0404, USA
Phone: (402) 472-2332
Fax: (402) 472-9700
E-mail:
Expertise:
- Environmental Economics
- Public Policy Analysis
- Agricultural Economics
Education:
Ph.D., The University of Texas - AustinResearch Interests:
Public Policy Analysis, Planning and Programming with the Social Fabric Matrix, Ecological Economics, Agriculture Policy, and Educational FinanceTeaching Interests:
Public Policy Analysis, Systems Analysis, Ecological Economics, and Current Economic IssuesFieldwork:
Nebraska Rainbasin Wetlands, Low-Level Radioactive Waste, Impacts of Linear Forests, Nebraska Office of Governor, Nebraska Public School District Finances, and Agriculture EconomicsResearch
Selected Articles:
- Fiscal Federalism: Program Budgeting and the Multi-level Government Setting
- Review of Rollo Handy, "The Measurement of Values: Behavioral Science and Philosophical Approaches"
- The Village Economy of India
- Toward a Social Welfare Construct for Social Indicators
- A Total Budget Methodology for Analyzing Inter-district Equity of State Education Finance Systems With an Application to Nebraska
- An Algorithm for Deriving Fiscal Equity Indicators of a School Financing Structure With an Application to the Public School Finance System of Nebraska
- Review of Marc R. Tool, "The Discretionary Economy: A Normative Theory of Political Economy"
- A Critical Analysis of Time Stream Discounting for Social Program Evaluation
- An Assessment Dependent Upon Technology
- Planning Through the Socialization of Property Rights: The Community Reinvestment Act
- Project Evaluation in a Future's Real Time System
- Invention and Instrumentalism, The Difference Between Tool Use and Tool Combinations
- Social Fabric Matrix: From Perspective to Analytical Tool
- Organizing Policy Research Problems Through the Social Fabric Matrix: A Boolean Digraph Approach
- Institutionalist Analysis of hte Political Economy of Food and Nutrition
- Integration of Social Indicators into Holistic Geobased Models
- A Geobased National Agricultural Policy for Rural Community Enhancement, Enviromental Vitality and Income Stabilization
- Industrial Policy at the State Level in the U.S.
- A Transdisciplinary Integration Matrix for Economics and Policy Analysis
- Family Farmland Reserve: A State Government Program for Restructuring Farm Debt
- Rejoiner to Daid Vail's Comments on National Agricultural Policy
- Defining and Articulating Social Change Through the Social Fabric Matrix and System Digraph
- Degregori's A Theory of Technology: A Review Article
- Values, Beliefs and Attitudes in a Social Fabric Matrix
- Evolution of Time Constructs and Their Impact on Socioeconomic Planning
- Economics for What: Policymaking or Abstract Paradigm Building
- Public Pension Power for Socioeconomic Investments
- Wetlands Provisions of the 1985 and for the 1990 Farm Bill
- Critique of Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost Methods for Valuing Natural Resources and Ecosystems
- Instrumental Valuation Indicators for Natural Resources adn Ecosystems
- Overlap of Organizations: Corporate Tranorganization and Veblen's Thesis on Higher Education
- Order Matters, and Thus So Does Timing: Graphical Clocks and Process Synchronicity
- Ecosystem Valuation: Combing Economics, Philosophy, and Ecology
- Reply to a Comment on
- Instrumental Policymaking: Policy Criteria in a Transactional Context
- Comparison of the Corporate Decision Networks of Nebraska and the United States
- Issues in Ecosystem Valuation: Improving Information for Decision Making
- Political and Economics Analysis of Low-Level Radioactive Waste
- Redistributing Income Upward Through the Cost-Plus Reimbursement Terms of Subgovernment Contracts
- Analysis of the Financial Assurance Plan in the Liense Application for a Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility
- Policymaking Network of the Iron-Triangle Subgovernment for Licensing Hazardous Waste Facilities
- The Use of Power Blocs of Integrated Corporate Directorships to Articulate a Power Structure: Case Study and Research Recommendators
- Endangered Demoncratic Institutions and Instrumental Inquiry
- Network Consequences Due to Oligopolists and Oligopsonists in the Hog Industry, Pollution from Hog Production, and the Failure to Regulate Ecological Criteria
- Combining Equity and the Precautionary Principle: Examples Drawn from Hog Production in Poland.
- The Inadequacy of Forrester System Dynamics Computer Programs for Institutional Principles of Hierarchy, Feedback, and Openness
- Using the Social Fabric Matrix to Analyze Institutional Rules Relative to Adequacy in Education Funding
- Circular and Cumulative Causation and the Social Fabric Matrix
