Carol E. Heim

1976 B.A., Economics, Yale University

1977 M.A., Economics, Yale University

1979 M.Phil., Economics, Yale University

1982 Ph.D., Economics, Yale University

Dissertation: "Uneven Regional Development in Interwar Britain"

• 1975 Elected to Phi Beta Kappa
• 1976 Graduated summa cum laude with Distinction in the Major; awarded the Branford College Fellows Prize for Academic Excellence
• 1976-80 Yale University Fellowship
• 1979-80 Dissertation Research Fellowship, American Association of University Women
• 1980-81 Dissertation Grant-in-Aid for research in Britain, Concilium on International and Area Studies, Yale University
• 1983 Arthur H. Cole Grant-in-Aid, Committee on Research in Economic History, Economic History Association
• 1984-85 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, American Association of University Women
• 1986 Faculty Research Grant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 1986-88 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship
• 1988 Grant-in-Aid, Mellon-West European Project, Yale University
• 1990-91 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA
• 2001 Research Grant, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2006 David C. Lincoln Fellowship in Land Value Taxation, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• 2007 Grant for Professional Development in Teaching, Center for Teaching, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2012 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (Hilary Term, Jan.- Mar.)
• 2012, MSP Research Support Fund Grants, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2015-18 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 Flex Grants for Teaching/Faculty Development, Center for Teaching & Faculty Development, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2016 College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecture and Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• 2023 Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History, Economic History Association

1981-82 Instructor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1982-89 Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

1983 (Summer), 1984-92 Research Associate or Research Affiliate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

1987 (Spring) Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Yale University

1989-99 Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2002-07 Research Associate, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2008 (Spring) Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Yale University

1999-2019 Professor, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2000-2019 Faculty Associate or Faculty Member, Center for Public Policy and Administration (School of Public Policy since 2016), University of Massachusetts, Amherst

2019-present Professor Emerita, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Refereed articles in journals:

• 1983 "Industrial Organization and Regional Development in Interwar Britain," Journal of Economic History 43, no. 4, December, pp. 931-52.
• 1984 "Limits to Intervention: The Bank of England and Industrial Diversification in the Depressed Areas," Economic History Review 37, no. 4, November, pp. 533-50.
• 1986 "External Spheres and the Theory of Capitalist Development," Social Concept 3, no. 2, December, pp. 3-42.
• 1987 "Interest Rates and Crowding-Out During Britain's Industrial Revolution" (with Philip Mirowski), Journal of Economic History 47, no. 1, March, pp. 117-39.
• 1987 "R & D, Defense, and Spatial Divisions of Labor in Twentieth-Century Britain," Journal of Economic History 47, no. 2, June, pp. 365-78.
• 1988 "Government Research Establishments, State Capacity, and Distribution of Industry Policy in Britain," Regional Studies 22, no. 5, October, pp. 375-86.
• 1990 "The Treasury as Developer-Capitalist? British New Town Building in the 1950s," Journal of Economic History 50, no. 4, December, pp. 903-24.
• 1996 "Accumulation in Advanced Economies: Spatial, Technological, and Social Frontiers," Cambridge Journal of Economics 20, no. 6, November, pp. 687-714.
• 1997 "Dimensions of Decline: Industrial Regions in the United States and Europe, 1970-1990," International Regional Science Review 20, no. 3, pp. 211-38.
• 2001 "Leapfrogging, Urban Sprawl, and Growth Management: Phoenix, 1950-2000," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 60, no. 1, January, pp. 245-283. Reprinted in City and Country, ed. Laurence S. Moss (Malden, Mass. and Oxford, Eng.: Blackwell, 2001), pp. 245-83.
• 2012 "Border Wars: Tax Revenues, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36, issue 4, July, pp. 831- 59 (Early View publication online, August 15, 2011).
• 2015 "Who Pays, Who Benefits, Who Decides? Urban Infrastructure in Nineteenth Century Chicago and Twentieth-Century Phoenix," Social Science History 39, no. 3, Fall, pp. 453-482.

Other publications: 

• 1983 "Uneven Regional Development in Interwar Britain," Journal of Economic History 43, no. 1, March, pp. 274-76. Dissertation summary selected for presentation at 1982 annual meeting of the Economic History Association.
• 1984 "Structural Transformation and the Demand for New Labor in Advanced Economies: Interwar Britain," Journal of Economic History 44, no. 2, June, pp. 585-95. One of 13 (out of 31) papers from the 1983 annual meeting of the Economic History Association selected by the journal editors for publication.
• 1986 "Interwar Responses to Regional Decline," in The Decline of the British Economy, eds. Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), pp. 240-65. Invited conference paper.
• 1987 "Regionalism and National Economic Development: Theoretical Perspectives and the U.S. Experience" (in Korean translation), Kumho Culture Bimonthly, no. 5-6, pp. 15-36. Keynote address at International Conference on National Development and Regionalism, Kwangju, Korea.
• 1991 "Crowding Out: A Response to Black and Gilmore" (with Philip Mirowski), Journal of Economic History 51, no. 3, September, pp. 701-06. Response to full-length article addressing arguments in Heim and Mirowski (1987).
• 1994 "Comments on Godley, Lai, and Taylor," Journal of Economic History 54, no. 2, June, pp. 441-45. Comments presented as Co-Chair of Dissertation Session, based on reading 10 dissertations and selecting 3 for the session, 1993 annual meeting of the Economic History Association.
• 1998 "Uneven Impacts of the Great Depression: Industries, Regions, and Nations," in The Economics of the Great Depression, ed. Mark Wheeler (Kalamazoo: W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1998), pp. 29-61. Invited lecture in public lecture series.
• 2000 "Structural Changes: Regional and Urban," in The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, vol. 3, The Twentieth Century, eds. Stanley L. Engerman and Robert E. Gallman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 93-190.
• 2003 "Capitalism," in Dictionary of American History, 3rd ed., vol. 2, Cabeza to Demography, ed. Stanley I. Kutler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003), pp. 41-47.
• 2007 "Taxes, Incentives, and Fiscal Policy Choices," in Land Use: Challenges and Choices for the 21st Century, ed. Patricia Gober (Phoenix: Arizona Town Hall, 2007), pp. 87-98 and 130-31.
• 2012 "Comments on Dean Misczynski, 'Special Assessments in California: 35 Years of Expansion and Restriction,'" in Value Capture and Land Policies, ed. Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong (Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy), pp. 116-19.
• 2015 "Introduction: Public and Private Provision of Urban Public Goods," Social Science History 39, no. 3, Fall, pp. 361-369. Introduction to Special Section of journal issue.

Book reviews: 

• 1984 Review of Power of Speech: A History of Standard Telephones and Cables 1883- 1983, by Peter Young, Business History Review 58, no. 2, Summer, pp. 300-01.
• 1986 Review of The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism, by R. J. Holton, The Journal of Peasant Studies 13, no. 3, April, pp. 143-46.
• 1986 Review of Economic Development of the British Coal Industry, 1800-1914, by B. R. Mitchell, Business History Review 60, no. 2, Summer, pp. 332-34.
• 1987 Review of Regional Dynamics: Studies in Adjustment Theory, by Gordon L. Clark, Meric S. Gertler, and John Whiteman, Journal of Economic Literature 25, no. 4, December, pp. 1906-07.
• 1988 Review of The Genesis of Industrial Capital: A Study of the West Riding Wool Textile Industry c. 1750-1850, by Pat Hudson, Journal of Economic History 48, no. 1, March, pp. 170-72.
• 1988 Review of Long Waves of Regional Development, by Michael Marshall, Journal of Economic Literature 26, no. 4, December, pp. 1758-59.
• 1990 Review of The Economic Section 1939-1961: A Study in Economic Advising, by Alec Cairncross and Nita Watts, Journal of Economic History 50, no. 3, September, pp. 730-32.
• 1991 Review of Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885-1941, by Philip Scranton, Journal of Regional Science 31, no. 2, May, pp. 217-19.
• 1993 Review of Building Capitalism: Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment, by Linda Clarke, Business History Review 67, no. 4, Winter, pp. 687-89.
• 1995 Review of Economic Policy in Europe since the Late Middle Ages: The Visible Hand and the Fortune of Cities, eds. Herman Diederiks, Paul Hohenberg, and Michael Wagenaar, Journal of Economic History 55, no. 1, March, pp. 166- 67.
• 2001 Review of Dodging Bullets: Changing U.S. Corporate Capital Structure in the 1980s and 1990s, by Robert N. McCauley, Judith S. Ruud, and Frank Iacono, Journal of Economic History 61, no. 4, December, pp. 1158-60.
• 2003 Review of Hobson and Imperialism: Radicalism, New Liberalism, and Finance 1887-1938, by Peter Cain, Journal of Economic History 63, no. 3, September, pp. 872-73.
• 2006 Review of The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, vol. III, Structural Change and Growth, 1939-2000, eds. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson, Journal of Economic History 66, no. 2, June, pp. 525-26.
• 2012 Review of Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region, eds. Michelle Nickerson and Darren Dochuk, Journal of Economic History 72, no. 3, September, pp. 848-849.

• "Municipal Fiscal Structures and Land-Based Growth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area," Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper, January 2007.

• Property and Profits: Urban Growth in Chicago and Phoenix. Book project comparing urban growth and property development in nineteenth-century Chicago and twentieth-century Phoenix.
• "Sources of Economic Gain for Property Developers"

• Urban growth, property development, land values, and planning
• Municipal fiscal policy and urban public goods
• Industrial organization of the property development and construction industries

Editorial Boards:

• Explorations in Economic History, 1993-2003
• Journal of Economic History, 1990-94
• Social Concept, 1983-95

Executive Editorial Committee:

• Social Science History, 2006-12

Guest Editor:

• Social Science History, Special Section on "Public and Private Provision of Urban Public Goods," 2012-15

Board of Trustees:

• Economic History Association, 1995-99 

Steering Committee:

• Council for European Studies, 1990-94

Program Committee:

• Council for European Studies, Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, 1991-92

Nominating Committee:

• Economic History Association, 2006-07

Standing Committee on EHA Administration:

• Economic History Association, 2009-present (members also served on Search Committee for EHA Executive Director, 2010-11)  

Ranki Prize Committee:

• Economic History Association, 2022-present

Referee for:

• Cambridge University Press
• Macmillan Publishing Company
• M.I.T. Press
• Princeton University Press
• University of Chicago Press
• National Science Foundation
• Swiss National Science Foundation
• Economic History Association, Cole Grants-in-Aid (Committee Chair, 1990-91)
• Council for European Studies, Research Planning Group Grants
• University of Massachusetts, Faculty Research Grants
   
• Australian Economic History Review
• Business History Review
• Cambridge Journal of Economics
• Economic History Review
• Explorations in Economic History
• Growth and Change: A Journal of Urban and Regional Policy
• Journal of Economic History
• Journal of Urban Affairs
• Social Concept

Nominator/Rater for:

• Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA

Professional Associations:

• American Economic Association
• Economic History Association
• Economic History Society (U.K.)
• Urban History Association
• Social Science History Association
• Business History Conference
• International Association for Feminist Economics
• American Association of University Women
• Urban Land Institute

• Discussant, paper by Robert Lawrence, "Deindustrialization and U.S. International Competitiveness: Domestic and International Forces in U.S. Industrial Performance, 1970-1980," conference on the Political Economy of Unemployment and Inflation, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, October 1982.
• "Regional Development and National Decline: Responses to the Regional Problem in Interwar Britain," invited paper presented at the Anglo-American Conference on the Decline of the British Economy, Boston University, Boston, MA, October 1983.
• Discussant, paper by Sheila Dow, "Modes of Thought in Macro-economics and the Treatment of Microfoundations," annual meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, New York, NY, March 1984.
• "Decline and Renewal in Britain and the U.S.: The Role of Less Developed Areas within Mature Economies," presented at annual meeting of the American Economic Association, Dallas, TX, December 1984.
• Invited Participant, Cliometrics Conference, Oxford, OH, May 1986.
• "R & D, Defense, and Spatial Divisions of Labor in Twentieth-Century Britain," presented at annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Hartford, CT, September 1986.
• Chair and Organizer, session on "Capital Markets and Systems of Cities," annual meeting of the Economic History Association, San Francisco, CA, September 1987.
• Chair, session on "Regional Economic Decline: Political and Familial Adjustment Strategies," Sixth International Conference of Europeanists, Washington, D.C., November 1987.
• Discussant, paper by Richard McIntyre, "Uneven Development: Imports, Domestic Entry, and Class Struggles in the U.S. Steel Industry," annual meeting of the Eastern Economic Association, Boston, MA, March 1988.
• Invited Participant, NBER Summer Institute, The Development of the American Economy, Cambridge, MA, July 1988.
• "The Treasury as Developer-Capitalist? British New Town Building in the 1950s," presented at annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Baltimore, MD, March 1989.
• Discussant, papers by A. and D. Green, "Immigration and Regional Growth: A Comparison of the Canadian and U.S. Experience," and D. Devoretz and R. Coulson, "Human Capital Content of Canadian Immigration, 1963-87," Canadian Quantitative Economic History Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 1989.
• Discussant, paper by Bernard Elbaum, "The Persistence of Apprenticeship in Britain and its Decline in the United States," All-UC Economic History Conference, San Diego, CA, April 1989.
• Discussant, papers by D. Corbett, "Wage Woes in Weimar?" K. O'Rourke, "International Wage Rates and Migration in Twentieth Century Ireland," and M. Thomas, "How Flexible Were Wages in Inter-War Britain?" McGill University Conference on the Evolution of Labor Markets, Montreal, Canada, February 1991.
• Invited Participant, NBER Conference on Economic Growth, Stanford, CA, April 1991.
• Discussant, session on "Regional Perspectives on Followership," annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Boulder, CO, September 1991.
• "Declining Industrial Regions and Frontier Growth: Europe, the U.S., and Japan in the 1970s and 1980s," presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, New Orleans, LA, November 1991, and at session on "Spatial Dimensions of Economic Restructuring," Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL, March 1992.
• Chair and Discussant, session on "Regional and Urban Policies in the European Community," Eighth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, IL, March 1992.
• Invited Participant, conference on Financial Institutions and Regulatory Regimes in Europe from the 1930s to the 1990s, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, January 1993.
• "Boundary Changes and Accumulation: Frontier Growth in Europe, the U.S., and Japan," presented at Social Concept conference on Accumulation and Development: Understanding Economic Transformations, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, August 1993.
• Co-Chair, Dissertation Session, annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Tucson, AZ, October 1993.
• Invited Participant, colloquium on Liberty and Market Society in the Thought of Karl Polanyi, Richmond, VA, October 1993.
• Discussant, paper by Louis Johnston and Karin Stawarky, "Cost Disease and Deindustrialization in Historical Perspective: The American Case, 1840-1990," annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations, Boston, MA, January 1994.
• Chair, session on "Convergence and Divergence within National Economies," Workshop on Convergence or Decline in British and American Economic History, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, February 1994. Oral presentation and discussion of previously circulated "Thoughts and Questions for Discussion."
• Discussant, papers by Gregory Clark, "Government Debt and Private Capital Markets: England, 1727-1837," and Larry Neal, "Why Crowding Out Did Not Occur and Crowding In Did: A New Look at the History of the British National Debt, 1694-1994," annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Cincinnati, OH, October 1994.
• Discussant, paper by John Yinger, "The Incidence of Development Fees and Special Assessments," conference on Local Government Tax and Land Use Policy, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, September 1995.
• Chair, session on "Resources, Market Innovations, and Big Government: Forces Driving Regional Development in North America," annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Durham, NC, September 1998.
• Discussant, paper by Paul Rhode, "America’s Century and the Rise of California as a Center of Economic Activity," annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Los Angeles, CA, September 2000.
• Chair, session on "Metropolitan Economies," joint annual meeting of the Business History Conference and the European Business History Association, Lowell, MA, June 2003.
• Invited Participant, Research and Policy Roundtable on State Trust Lands, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy/Sonoran Institute Joint Venture on State Trust Lands, Phoenix, AZ, October 2004.
• "Border Wars: Tax Revenues, Annexation, and Urban Growth in Phoenix," presented at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians, San José, CA, April 2005, at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Portland, OR, November 2005, and at the Annual Rena Sivitanidou Research Symposium ("Models and Stories: Explaining Long Processes of Cities"), Lusk Center for Real Estate, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 2006.
• "Municipal Fiscal Structures and Land-Based Growth in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area," presented at the David C. Lincoln Fellowship Symposium, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, September 2006, at the Third Biennial Conference of the Urban History Association, Tempe, AZ, October 2006, and at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Minneapolis, MN, November 2006.
• Invited Participant, Research and Policy Roundtable on Land Use and Growth in the West, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy/Sonoran Institute Joint Venture, Scottsdale, AZ, February-March 2007.
• Chair, session on "Location and Change in Entrepreneurial Communities," annual meeting of the Business History Conference, Cleveland, OH, May-June 2007.
• Discussant, paper by William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo, "The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values," annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Austin, TX, September 2007.
• Chair, session on "Innovation, Competition, and Growth," annual meeting of the Economic History Association, New Haven, CT, September 2008.
• Chair, session on "Interwar Britain," annual meeting of the Economic History Society, Durham, England, March 2010.
• Invited Participant, conference on "Rethinking Economics and Law after the Great Recession," University at Buffalo Law School and the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, Buffalo, NY, May 2010.
• Discussant, paper by Dean Misczynski, “Special Assessments in California: 35 Years of Expansion and Reaction,” Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Conference on Prospects for Value Capture,” Cambridge, MA, May 2011.
• Chair, session on “Great Depression,” annual meeting of the Economic History Society, Oxford, England, April 2012.
• "Who Pays, Who Benefits, Who Decides? The Political Economy of Urban Infrastructure in Nineteenth-Century Chicago and Twentieth-Century Phoenix," presented at annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Vancouver, BC, November 2012.
• Chair, closing plenary session, "UMass Economics and PERI: Looking Ahead," Crotty Hall Celebration Conference: "Political Economy at Crotty Hall: Ushering in the New, Remembering the Old," Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 2017.
• Chair, session on "Urbanization in a New Era," Asian Political Economy Inaugural Conference, Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, April 2019.
• Discussant, paper by James Siodla and and Samara Gunter, “Local Origins and Implications of the 1930s Urban Debt Crisis,” annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Atlanta, GA, September 2019.
• Chair, session on "Urban," annual meeting of the Economic History Association, Pittsburgh, PA. September 2023.

All Souls College (Oxford University), California Institute of Technology, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Columbia University, Harvard University, Institute of Historical Research (University of London), Northwestern University, Queens College (CUNY), Stanford University, University of Arizona (School of Public Administration and Policy and Department of Economics), University of Denver, University of Birmingham (U.K.), University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Center for Public Policy and Administration and Department of Economics), University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Washington Area Economic History Seminar, Wesleyan University, Western Michigan University, Western New England University School of Law, Williams College, Yale University.

• "Deindustrialization and British Economic Decline," International Political Economy course, London School of Economics, London, June 1986.
• Invited discussion, Business History course, School of Business Administration, Meiji University, Tokyo, May 1987.
• "Corporations, Regions, and the State," course on The Corporation and the State in Twentieth Century Capitalism, Yale University, New Haven, November 1993.
• "Uneven Impacts of the Great Depression: Industries, Regions, and Nations," public lecture series on The Economics of the Great Depression (co-sponsored by Western Michigan University and the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research), Kalamazoo, October 1996.
• "Government and Governance in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area," Urban Government and Politics course, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, May 2006.
• "Urbanization in the United States in the Twentieth Century," American Economic History course, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, November 2007.
• "Fiscal Pressure at Build-out: Policy and Planning Responses in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area," Ervin Zube Lecture Series, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, November 2009.
• "Developers, Urban Growth Machines, and Public-Private Partnerships," Perspectives on the City course, Yale University, April 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.
• "Municipal Competition and Fiscal Policy in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area," course on The City, Department of Art, Architecture, and Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, October 2011.
• Interview on life and ideas of economist Joseph Schumpeter, and on historical evolution of capitalism, for documentary television series on "Capitalism," produced by Zadig Productions (Paris) for French/German public broadcaster Arte and other television networks, New York, NY, December 2011.
• Invited participant, Teaching Panel, Liberal Arts Colleges Economic History Workshop, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, February 2018.
• "Who Pays, Who Benefits, Who Decides? Property Developers and the Political Economy of Urban Growth," Distinguished Faculty Lecture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 2019. https://www.umass.edu/gateway/distinguished-faculty-lecture-series

1983-84 FSBS Chair Search Committee for Economics Department Chair

1987-90 Faculty Senate Library Committee

1996-97 CSBS Chair Search Committee for Economics Department Chair

1997-98 Executive Committee, Center for Public Policy and Administration

2001 (Spring) Curriculum Committee, Center for Public Policy and Administration

2001-02 Executive Committee, Center for Public Policy and Administration

2002-03 Planning and Community Engagement Committee, Center for Public Policy and Administration; CSBS Chair Search Committee for Economics Department Chair

2003 (Fall) Curriculum and Student Affairs Committee, Center for Public Policy and Administration

2004 (Fall) Personnel Committee, Center for Public Policy and Administration

2007 (Spring) CSBS Director Search Committee for Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration

2008-09 CSBS Chair Search Committee for Economics Department Chair Admissions Committee, Center for Public Policy and Administration

2012 (Fall) Intellectual Life and Research Committee, Center for Public Policy and Administration

2015 (Spring) Provost’s Review Committee for Centers and Institutes

2016 (Fall) Subcommittee of Search Committee for Director of School of Public Policy

2017, 2018 (Spring) Review Committee for SBS Outstanding Teaching Award

1982-84 Visiting Speakers Series Coordinator

1985-86 Placement Director

1987 (Spring), 1988 (Fall) Economic History Committee

1989-90 Executive Committee; Committee on "Eurocentrism in the Program"; Graduate Admissions Committee; Graduate Student Instructor Selection Committee

1991 (Fall) Computer Committee

1991-92 Economic History Curriculum Committee (Chair)

1992 (Spring) Executive Committee

1992-93 Executive Committee (Chair)

1993 (Summer) Search Committee for Personal Computer Support Staff Position

1993-94 Graduate Program Committee and Graduate Studies Committee; Economic History Curriculum Committee (Chair)

1994-96 Undergraduate Committee

1996 (Spring) Public Policy Working Group

1998-99 Hiring Committee

1999-2000 Internship Coordinator

2003 (Fall) Executive Committee

2004-05 Merit Committee (Chair)

2005-06 Undergraduate Committee (Chair)

2006-07 Executive Committee

2007 (Spring) Search Committee for Chief Academic Advisor (Chair) Sheridan Trustee Committee

2009-10 Hiring Committee (Chair) (preliminary activities undertaken; formal search ultimately not authorized)

2010-11 Hiring Committee (Chair) (chaired 3 Search Committees: 1 in Economics, 1 for joint position with Center for Public Policy and Administration, 1 for joint position with Commonwealth Honors College)

2011 (Fall) Hiring Committee (nonvoting member advising the committee)

2012-13 Graduate Program Committee and Graduate Studies Committee

2013-14 Merit Coordinating/Awards Committee (Chair)

2015 (Summer) Director, Undergraduate Research Assistant Program

2015-16 Director, Undergraduate Research Assistant Program

2016-17 Graduate Program Committee and Graduate Studies Committee

2017-18 Graduate Program Committee and Graduate Studies Committee

2017-19 Coordinator, Graduate Field Groups for Economic History and Industrial Organization; Member, Graduate Field Group for Urban Political Economy

2018-19 Sheridan Trustee Committee (Chair)

Member, Massachusetts Industrial Policy Group, 1987-89

Member, Franklin County Planning Board, 1995-97; Franklin Regional Planning Board, 1997- 2000

Member, Connecticut Valley Summit Comprehensive Planning Group, 2001-03

Member, Leverett Community Preservation Committee, 2001-2005 (Chair, 2003-05)

Member, Leverett Affordable Housing Committee, 2008-09

Consultation (unpaid), Arizona Governor's Growth Cabinet, January 2008

Telephone conversations with reporters for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Wall Street Journal on incentives and subsidies offered to business firms by cities, June and Sept. 2013