S. Abu Turab
Rizvi
Office hours During the academic year, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:00 to
3:00, in the Honors College, or make an appointment through me or Tina Griffis (cgriffis@uvm.edu
or (802) 656-9100). Contact information Honors College North Complex, Room 34D 50 University Heights University of Vermont Burlington, VT 05405 (802) 656-9102 (802) 656-9009 (fax) |
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Interim
Dean* of the Honors College & Professor
of Economics University
of Vermont Here
is some information on my teaching, research and administrative activities. *I have been appointed Dean
as of July 1, 2008. Teaching
I am Interim Dean of the Honors College
and teach a first-year seminar for its students, HCOL
95 and 96, called Making Ethical Choices:
Personal, Public and Professional.
(Students: here is the revised syllabus for HCOL 96,
Spring 2008). In the Economics
Department, I have taught courses on
microeconomics and on the relation between well-being
and the economy. I have also taught in the John
Dewey Honors Program and courses on economic methods and
game theory. Research
My
research concerns general equilibrium and game theory and their history, as
well as the study of poverty, well-being and
preference. I describe my scholarship in more detail in a July 2005 research statement. My
writing over the past few years includes: o "Aumann and
Schelling: Two Approaches to
Game Theory." In Steven Pressman, ed., Leading Contemporary Economists (Routledge,
forthcoming). o "Introduction: Schelling's Distinctive Approach." In a symposium on
Thomas Schelling's work edited by me in Journal
of Economic Methodology 14 (2007), 403-408, followed by the symposium. o "An integrative approach to quality of
life measurement, research, and policy" (with Robert Costanza,
Brendan Fisher, and others). Surveys
and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society 1 (2007), 1-5. o Review of David B. Grusky
and Ravi Kanbur, eds., Poverty and Inequality (Stanford
University Press, 2006) and Alexander Kaufman, ed., Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems (Routledge, 2006) in Perspectives
on Politics 5 (2007), 606-607. o "Aumman's and
Schelling's Game Theory: The
Nobel Prize in Economic Science, 2005." Review of Political Economy 19 (2007), 297-316. o "Quality of Life: An Approach Integrating
Opportunities, Human Needs, and Subjective Well-Being" (with Robert Costanza, Brendan Fisher, and others). Ecological
Economics 61 (2007), 267-276. o "The Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu
Results after 30 Years." History
of Political Economy (2006) 38 (Suppl 1),
228-245. o Poverty, Work and Freedom: Political
Economy and the Moral Order (written with David P. Levine) (Cambridge University
Press, 2005). [description] o "Pluralism in economics." Paper
presented at the American Economics Association meeting, Philadelphia, PA,
January 8, 2005. o "Experimentation, General equilibrium and
Games." In Philippe Fontaine and Robert Leonard, eds.,
The Experiment in the History of
Economics (Routledge, 2005), pp. 50-70. o "Deception and Game Theory." In
Caroline Gerschlager, ed., Exchange, Deception and Self-deception (Palgrave, 2004), pp.
25-49. Administration and Service
My
administrative experience at the University of Vermont includes:
In addition to my duties in the
Honors College, I serve on the Board of Advisors of the Fleming Museum of the University of
Vermont. In the course of doing administrative
work, I prepared the following reports: o
"Recruiting for
Diversity in the Honors College." July 2006. o
"Building
Intellectual Community in the First Year: the Experience of STEP in the College of Arts and
Sciences, University of Vermont." September 2003. o
"Retention of
Students in the College of Arts and Sciences." March 2003. o
"Report of the
Pilot Assessment Project in Economics:
Assessment of Student Outcomes" (with Jane Knodell). October 2000. Short version in Bobby G. Dudley, ed., Twelfth
Annual Conference on Teaching Economics (Irwin McGraw-Hill, 2001), pp.
90-92. o
"Assessment in
Economics." Contribution to
"Report on Assessment Protocols of the College of Arts and
Sciences." November 1998. |
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