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Dagobert L. Brito Baker Hall 258 |
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| FIELDS: | Economic Theory, Public Finance. |
| EDUCATION: | Ph.D., Economics, Rice University, 1970 M.A., Economics, Rice University, 1970 B.A., Economics, Rice University, 1967 |
| CURRENT RESEARCH: | Optimal Tax Theory, Economics of Defense, Energy Economics, and Law Economics |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: | "Upgrading the Saudi Petroline: An Alternative to the Strait of Hormuz?," Center for Naval Analyses Research Memorandum, SECRET, with M.W. Ewell, Jr., A. Hashim, and J. Noer, (October, 1998) 98-130. "Corporate Restructuring, Technological Change and the Distribution of Labor Income," with M. D. Intriligator and Erica Worth, in Gunnar Eliasson and Christopher Green, Eds. The Macrofoundations of Economic Growth, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, (1998). "Alternatives to the Strait of Hormuz," The Energy Journal, with E. Sheshinski, (1998). "Increasing Returns to Scale and the Arms Race: The End of the Richardson Paradigm?," Defense and Peace Economics, with M. D. Intriligator, (1998). "Tort Law: Defects of the Comparative Negligence Standard," (with Peter R. Hartley), Agenda, (1997). "Privatization and the Distribution of Income in the Commons." (with M.D. Intriligator and E. Sheshinski), Journal of Public Economics, (1997). "Deterring Nuclear Weapons Proliferation," Economic Affairs, (1997), with M. D. Intriligator. "Proliferation, Technological Change and Foreign Policy," with M. D. Intriligator and E. Sheshinski, Conference volume, Inaugural Conference of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy (1996). "Proliferation and the Probability of War: A Cardinality Theorem," (with M. D. Intriligator), Journal of Conflict Resolution, (1996). "Arms Races and Proliferation," (with M. D. Intriligator), Todd Sandler and Keith Hartley Eds., Handbook of Defense Economics, (1996). "A Model of the Consumption of Alcohol," Advances in Behavioral Economics, (with C. K. Strain), (1996). "Consumer Rationality and Credit Cards," Journal of Political Economy, (with Peter R. Hartley), (1995). "Randomization in Optimal Income Tax Schedules," Journal of Public Economics, (with J. Hamilton, S. Slutsky and J. Stiglitz), (1995). "Social Indifference Curves with Optimal Second-Best Taxation," (with J. Hamilton and S. Slutsky), Economic Theory, (1993). "Minimizing the Risks for Accidental Nuclear War: An Agenda for Action," (with M. D. Intriligator), in Hakan Wiberg, Ib Damgaard Peterson and Paul Smoker Eds., Inadvertent Nuclear War: The Implications of the Changing Global Order, (1993). "Dynamic Optimal Income Taxation with Government Commitment," Journal of Public Economics, (with J. Hamilton, S. Slutsky and J. Stiglitz), (1991). "On the Limits of Economic Control," (1970) in E. Phelps. Ed., Recent Developments in Macroeconomics, (1991). "Externalities and Compulsory Vaccinations," (with M. D. Intriligator and E. Sheshinski), Journal of Public Economics, 45 (1991), 69-90. |
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