Kris Feder, Ph.D.

Current Employment:

• Assistant Professor of Economics, Bard College Research Associate, Jerome Levy Economics Institute of Bard College

• Undergraduate courses include microeconomic and macroeconomic theory; environmental economics ; urban economics; public sector economics; mathematical economics; first year seminar on Progress and Poverty; advanced seminar in land economics

• Graduate course in environmental economics in the Graduate Studies Environmental Sciences (GSES) Masters degree program.

• Co-director of Community, Regional, and Environmental Studies program.

• Developing a research agenda on economics of land and taxation for the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, a research and conference center associated with Bard College.

• Temple University, Graduate School of Business Administration, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122. Ph.D. degree in Economics, January 1993

Fields of specialization: Public Sector Economics; History of Economic Thought

Grade point average: 4.00

Awards:

• Russell Conwell Fellowship, 1984-85 and 1985-6
• University Fellowship, 1982-4
• Summer Tuition Scholarship, 1984

Dissertation: "Issues in the Theory of Land Value Taxation." Advisor Dr. Lyn Holmes

Previous Education:

• State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, 1972-4

• University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1974-6 and 1982-3

• Henry George School of Economics and Social Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  Student, then teacher, 1977-80, under Director George Collins

Previous Employment:

• Visiting Professor, 19000-91, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Assistant Professor, 1988-90, West Chester University, West Chester, Pennsylvania

Papers and Publications:

• "Land, Labor, and Capital," presented at First Lafayette College Conference on Henry George, June 13-14, 1991

• "Property Tax Reform: The Pittsburgh Plan," presented at Bard College/Fannie Mae University Colloquium Series, March 29, 1994

• "Henry George: Footnote in the History of Economic Thought," invited paper presented at session on "Henry George and His Influence,": conference of the HIstory of Economics Society, Babson College, Massachusetts, June 12-13, 1994

• "Public Finance and the Cooperative Society,: in A Philosophy for a Fair Society, by Michael Hudson, G.J. Miller, and Kris Feder (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1994).

• "South Africa 1994: Countdown to Disaster," with Fred Harrison, in The Corruption of Economics, by Mason Gaffney and Fred Harrison (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 1994).

• "Are the Laws of the Universe Harmonious?" paper presented at Global Town Meeting to Draft the Bill of Economic Rights and Responsibilities, sponsored by The Center for American Studies at Concord, Concord, Massachusetts, April 18m, 1996.

• "Comment on Property Tax Reform," testimony presented to State Commission on the Capital Region, Rockefeller Institute of Government, State University of New York, 411 State Street, Albany, New York, April 2, 1996

• "Geo-Economics," in Beyond Neoclassical Economics: Heterodox Approaches to Economic Theory, edited by Fred Foldvary (Hants, England: Edward Elgar), forthcoming.

• "The Microeconomics of Land Speculation and Land Taxation," in Economic Power and Land Speculation, edited by Mason Gaffney and Fred Harrison (London: Anthony Werner), forthcoming.

• Currently preparing two policy briefs for the Jerome Levy Economic Institute, with co-author Dr. Michael Hudson, on (1) capital gains taxation and (2) land rent in consumer budgets.

Last modified: 10 October 1996

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