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 Recent Research:
Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel, “Urban Decentralization, Suburbanization and Sprawl: An Equity Perspective,” in Nancy Brooks, Kieran Donaghy, and Gerrit Knaap (eds.), Oxford Handbook on Planning and Urban Economics (forthcoming).
“Rawls’s Thin (Millean) Defense of Private Property,” Utilitas, 22:2, 2010, pp. 134-147.
Joseph Persky and Daniel Felsenstein, “Job Chains and Wage Curves: Worker Mobility and Marshallian Surpluses in Evaluating Local Employment Growth,” Journal of Regional Science, 48:5, 2008, pp. 921-940.
Gilbert Bassett and Joseph Persky “Conceptualizing Risk and Inequality,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28:1 2006, 81-93.
“Do Federal Spending and Tax Policies Build Cities or Promote Sprawl?” (with Haydar Kurban), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 33:3, 2003, pp. 361-378.
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)
Current Research Interests:
Redistribution through the Financing of Public Education;
Evaluation of Economic Development Projects;
Utilitarianism
Other Significant Accomplishments:
Writing an occasional feature on history of thought for Journal of Economic Perspectives
Member of the Illinois Council of Economic Advisors
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