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

1. Provost
   Williams College, 1988 - 1990
2. 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.
• __________, Paying the Piper: Productivity, Incentives, and Financing in U.S. Higher Education, (with Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro) 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.
• __________, "Myopic Discounting: Empirical Evidence," in James Gerber, ed., The Handbook of Behavioral Economics, vol. 2B, 1991.
• __________, "Recent Trends in U.S. Higher Education Costs and Prices: The Role of Government Funding," (with Michael S. McPherson and Morton Owen Schapiro) 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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