Gordon C. Winston
Orrin Sage Professor of Political Economy
Chair
Co-Director, Mellon Project
Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1964
A.B., Whitman College, English Literature, 1950
Fields
Economic Development, Production Theory, Consumption Theory, The Economics
of Higher Education
Selected Work Experience
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Provost
Williams College, 1988 - 1990
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Member
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton NJ, 1978 - 1979
Country Experience
Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria
Publications and Working Papers
Gordon Winston, "Teaching's Decline," Change, September/October 1994.
__________, "Why Are Capital Costs Ignored by Colleges and Universities
and What Are the Prospects for Change?" in NACUBO Business Officer, June
1993.
__________, "New Dangers in Old Traditions: The Reporting of Economic
Performance in Colleges and Universities," Change, January/February 1993.
__________, (with Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro) Paying
the Piper: Productivity, Incentives, and Financing in U.S. Higher Education,
Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1993.
__________, "Hostility, Maximization, and The Public Trust," Change,
July/August 1992.
__________, "The Necessary Revolution in Financial Accounting," Planning
for Higher Education, Summer 1992. Reprinted as "Global Accounts" in William
F. Massy Resource Allocation in Higher Education, Ann Arbor: The University
of Michigan Press, 1996.
__________, "Myopic Discounting: Empirical Evidence," in James Gerber,
ed., The Handbook of Behavioral Economics, vol. 2B, 1991.
__________, (with Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro) "Recent
Trends in U.S. Higher Education Costs and Prices: The Role of Government
Funding," American Economic Review, May 1989.
__________, "Imperfectly Rational Choice: Rationality as the Result
of a Costly Activity," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 1989.
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