S. Abu Turab Rizvi

 

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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

 

abu.rizvi@uvm.edu

 

Honors College

North Complex, Room 34D

50 University Heights

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT 05405

 

(802) 656-9102

(802) 656-9009 (fax)

 

 

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:

 

  • Interim Dean, Honors College, July 2007-present
  • Associate Dean, Honors College, 2005-2007
  • Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, 2001-2003.
  • Chair or Interim Chair, Dept. of Economics, 1995-2001.

 

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. 

 

 

 

Last updated February 5, 2008