Wallace E. Oates | |
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Born | March 21, 1937 |
Died | October 30, 2015 |
Academic career | |
Institutions | University of Maryland, Princeton University |
Alma mater | Stanford |
Wallace E. Oates (March 21, 1937 – October 30, 2015) was a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. [1]
He taught in the fields of public economics and environmental economics, and was considered a major international figure in both fields. [1] His first book was Fiscal Federalism (1972) and he authored numerous other books and articles, including The Theory of Environmental Policy (1975), coauthored with William J. Baumol. A Festschrift, Environmental and public economics : essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates, was published in his honor in 1999, [2] and an additional volume of his selected essays in 2004. [3] Another Festschrift, The Tiebout Model at fifty : essays in public economics in honor of Wallace Oates was published in his honor in 2006. [4]
He received his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford in 1965 and joined the faculty at Princeton University. [1] He began at the University of Maryland in 1979. [5]
Wallace E. Oates | |
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Born | March 21, 1937 |
Died | October 30, 2015 |
Academic career | |
Institutions | University of Maryland, Princeton University |
Alma mater | Stanford |
Wallace E. Oates (March 21, 1937 – October 30, 2015) was a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. [1]
He taught in the fields of public economics and environmental economics, and was considered a major international figure in both fields. [1] His first book was Fiscal Federalism (1972) and he authored numerous other books and articles, including The Theory of Environmental Policy (1975), coauthored with William J. Baumol. A Festschrift, Environmental and public economics : essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates, was published in his honor in 1999, [2] and an additional volume of his selected essays in 2004. [3] Another Festschrift, The Tiebout Model at fifty : essays in public economics in honor of Wallace Oates was published in his honor in 2006. [4]
He received his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford in 1965 and joined the faculty at Princeton University. [1] He began at the University of Maryland in 1979. [5]