Roger E. Bolton

William Brough Professor of Economics

(Professor Bolton has a more extensive homepage through the Center for Environmental Studies)

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1964

A.B., Franklin and Marshall College, Economics, 1959

Selected Work Experience

  1. Visiting Professor

    2. Wellesley College (Economics), University of Pennsylvania (City and Regional Planning), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Geography and Urban Planning), University of Wisconsin at Madison (Public Affairs and Urban Planning), Clark (Geography), Fall 1977, 1981 - 1982, Fall 1988, Fall 1989, Fall 1993, respectively
  2. Associated Staff Member

    3. Brookings Institution, 1965 - 1968

Fields

Regional and Urban Economics, Geography, Environmental and Resource Economics, Business Finance and Capital Markets

Publications and Working Papers

Roger Bolton, (with Rodney C. Jensen, University of Queensland) "Regional Science and Regional Practice," International Regional Science Review, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1995.
__________, "New Regional Science and New Economics," Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1995.
_________, "What Power on Earth? Arthur Latham Perry's Response to Henry George," Williams College Economics Department Research Paper No. 162, June 1993.
__________, "'Place Prosperity' vs. 'People Prosperity' Revisited," Urban Studies, Vol. 29, No. 2, 1992; shortened version reprinted in R.D. Norton, ed., Structuring Direct Aid: People versus Places, Vol. 9 of Research in Urban Economics series, JAI Press, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1993.
__________, "Regional Economic Models," Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1985; reprinted in Ronald Bodkin, Lawrence Klein and Kanta Marwah, eds., A History of Macroeconometric Model-Building, Edward Elgar, Aldershot, U.K., 1991.
___________, "’Place’ as ‘Network’: Applications of Network Theory to Local Communities," paper read at Western Regional Science Association, February 1997.
__________, (with Gregory Jackson, George Masnick and others) Regional Diversity: Growth in the United States, 1960-1990, Auburn House for MIT-Harvard Joint  Center for Urban Studies, Cambridge, MA, 1981.
__________, "Defense Spending and Policies for Labor-Surplus Areas," in John Kain and John Meyer, eds., Essays in Regional Economics, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1971.
__________, "Predictive Models for State and Local Government Purchases," in James S. Duesenberry et al., The Brookings Econometric Model: Some Further Results, Rand McNally, NY, 1969.
__________, Defense Purchases and Regional Growth, Brookings, Washington, DC 1966.

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