S. Abu Turab Rizvi

Dean of the Honors College

Professor of Economics

University of Vermont

 

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 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, 2008), 366-387.

 

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.

 

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