Joseph J. Persky
Professor Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971
Phone: (312) 996-2687 Fax: (312) 996-3344
E-Mail:jpersky@uic.edu
Homepage:http://www.uic.edu/~jpersky/
Fields of Interest : Urban and Regional Economics, History of Thought, Public Finance, Radical Political Economy
Selected Research :
Joseph Persky, Daniel Felsenstein, and Virginia Carlson, Does "Trickle Down" Work? Economic Development Strategies and Job Chains in Local Labor Markets (Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004)
Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel, When Corporations Leave Town: The Costs and Benefits of Metropolitan Job Sprawl (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000).
"When Did Equality Become a Non-Economic Objective?" American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 63:4 2004, 921-938.
with Gilbert Bassett "Conceptualizing Risk and Inequality," Journal of the History of Economic Thought, forthcoming.
with Haydar Kurban "Do Federal Spending and Tax Policies Build Cities or Promote Sprawl?" Regional Science and Urban Economics 33:3, 2003, pp. 361-378.
"The Neoclassical Advent: American Economics at the Dawn of the 20th Century" Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14, 1, 2000 pp. 95-108.
Current Research Interests:
State minimum wages
Job Chains in Local Labor Markets
Evaluation of Economic Development Projects
Other Significant Accomplishments :
Writing an occasional feature on history of thought for Journal of Economic Perspectives.
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