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About Mason Gaffney, C.V. March, 1995
- Home address, 3040 Tyler Street, Riverside CA 92503,
- phone 909/687-1677.
- Mailing address, P.O. Box 7998, Riverside CA 92513.
- Office, Department of Economics, University of California,
Riverside CA 92521.
- Phone 909/787-5037 x1574;
- FAX 909\787-5685 Born White Plains, NY,
- Born: 18 October 1923.
Thumbnail Biography:
- Who's Who in America.
- Principal Employment and Education 1978- Professor of
Economics, University of California, Riverside (Chair, 1978-80)
1976- Professor of Management, Graduate School of Administration
(now Management), University of California, Riverside (joint
appointment - I teach Managerial Economics). 1973-76 Founder and
Executive Director, British Columbia Institute for Economic Policy
Analysis, Victoria B.C. 1969-73 Senior Research Associate, Resources
for the Future Inc., Washington D.C. 1962-69 Professor of Economics,
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI (Chairman, 1963-65)
- Workshop on "Collecting Public Revenue from Natural
Resources and Environmental Use in Russia and the U.S." at the
Jerome Levy Institute, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Dimitri A.
Papadimitriou, Chair. I gave two papers: "Reconciling Socialism
and Capitalism," and "Identifying and Taxing Rents from
Exhaustible Natural Resources." I also served as Rapporteur,
summing up the Workshop.
- 1994, October, Co-founded new professional association,
tentatively called "The Geo-Economics Association." Hosted
business meeting at Great Barrington.
- 1994 Consultant to Ken Hechler, Secretary of State, State of
West Virginia, on natural resource taxation policy
- 1994 Consultant to Dr. Dmitry S. Lvov, Central Economics and
Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on
privatization and tax policy in Russia
- 1994 Program Chair, Conference on "Land Speculation and
the Banking-S&L Collapse." Sponsored by The American
Institute for Economic Research, Great Barrington MA,
- October 20-22 1994 Named Faculty Associate, Lincoln Institute
of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA 1993,
- September, delivered Annual Walsh Memorial Lecture, Macquarie
University, Sydney, Australia. Topic: "The Bitter Harvest of
Neo-classical Economics." Professor Richard Braddock, Executor
and sponsor.
- 1993 Organizer and Program Chair, Think Big to Heal America,
13th Annual Conference, Council of Georgist Organizations, Los
Angeles, July 20-27, 1993. There were 200 attendees, and some 30
speakers. I also spoke on four topics.
- 1993 Annual Leadership Award, Council of Georgist
Organizations, presented at 13th Annual Conference, Los Angeles,
- 24 July 1993 Program Chair, Conference on "Tax
Incentives, Capital Formation, Capital Conservation, and Capital
Allocation." Sponsored by The American Institute for Economic
Research, Great Barrington MA.
- 1993 Consultant to Ekograd, St. Petersburg, Russia, on
reforming local tax policy
- 1992 Honored for Distinguished Service, at 30th Annual
Meeting of The Committee on Taxation, Resources, and Economic
Development (TRED), Harvard Faculty Club,
- October 2 1992 Seminar on water marketing and conservation,
conducted for staff of Strategic Planning Section, Crown
Corporations Secretariat, Province of B.C., Vancouver,
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