Mailing address:
P.O. Box 7998
Riverside, CA 92513
Office:
Department of Economics
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
909-787-5037 x1574
FAX: 909-787-5685
Email: mgaffney@ucr.campus.mci.net
Born: White Plains, NY, 18 October 1923.
Married to Ruth Letitia Atwood, six children.
Thumbnail Biography: Who's Who in America.
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)
1958-62 Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia MO
1954-58 Assistant Professor of Economics, N.C. State College, Raleigh N.C.
1953-54 Instructor in Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene
1948-53 Candidate for Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
1947-48 Candidate for B.A. in Economics, Reed College, Portland OR
1943-46 Cadet and Communications Officer, U.S. Army Air Corps, service in Southwest Pacific Theatre
1941-42 Student, Harvard College, Cambridge MA
1944, October 24-25, 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, August, 1992
1990-91 Chair, Budget Advisory Committee, City of Riverside
1990, Consultant, Stanley Hoffman Associates, Santa Monica, re-evaluating policies of South Coast Air Quality Management District
1988, Consultant, State of Florida, Governor's Task Force on Urban Growth Patterns
1988- Director, Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, New York
1987-91 Chair, Committee on Taxation, Resources and Economic Development (TRED). I was a founder of this organization in 1963.
1987 Co-author and signatory of Measure C, City of Riverside, "Citizens' Rights Initiative to Reduce Costly Urban Sprawl, etc." (carried, 1987)
1986-87 President of Friends of Riverside, Inc., a civic group; Co-Founder, 1978; Board Member, 1978-87
1985- Director, Common Ground, a national civic and political organization
1985- Board Member, Riversiders for Reasonable Growth, a civic organization. Vice-president, 1988-
1982-86 Public Utilities Commissioner, City of Riverside
1982 April, 2nd Annual University Memorial Lecturer in honor of Harry Gunnison Brown, University of Missouri, Columbia
1981 Expert Witness, Revenue and Taxation Committee, Assembly, California Legislature, Hearings on Oil Severance Taxation
1980-82, Energy Commissioner, City of Riverside
1980, Founding Member, Western Tax Association
1980, Consultant, Roy Littlejohn Associates, Washington D.C., OCS leasing policy
1980, City Advisory Committee on Implementation of Measure R (below)
1979, Consultant, Committee on Finance and Taxation, Florida State Legislature
1979, Co-author and original signatory of record, Measure R, City of Riverside, "Taxpayers' Initiative Ordinance to Reduce Costly Urban Sprawl", (carried, 1979)
1977-78 Consultant and expert witness for Western Timber Association, U.S. House Committee on Public Lands
1977-88 Owned and managed small fruit-growing business
1977 Consultant, Association of Bay Area Governments
1976-77 Consultant, State of Alaska, Department of Natural Resources, and various committees of State Legislature, re oil and gas leasing policy
1975-76 Commissioner, Royal Commission on Property Tax Revision in British Columbia
1973-76 Economic Adviser to Hon. Robert Williams, Minister of Lands and Forests, Government of British Columbia. Through Williams I also advised The Minister of Mines and Minerals, The Minister of Urban Affairs, The Environment and Land Use Committee, The Premier, and others.
1972 Consultant, Director of Assessments, State of West Virginia, re valuation of coal reserves
1968 Consultant, Institute for Defense Analyses, Arlington VA (analysis of housing costs)
1967 Visiting Professor of Economics, UCLA
1967 Consultant, Bruce Ricks, effect of federal taxation on supply of housing, Report to HHFA
1966 Research Grant, Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, history of economic thought on rent
1964-65 Research Grants, Lincoln Foundation and Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, effects of property taxation on urban land use
1961 Consultant on organization and orientation, The John C. Lincoln Foundation
1960 Consultant, TIME Inc, re House and Home Magazine issue of August 1960, and follow up articles in Fortune, Nation's Cities, and elsewhere (detail in bibliography)
1957-58 Faculty Research Fellowship, The Ford Foundation, re economy of water in California
1956 Unrestricted faculty research grant, The Ford Foundation (used to write Financial Maturity of Timber)
1952-53 Rusby Grant (to finish dissertation)
1950 Irrigation Economist, U.S. Census of Agriculture
1948 Phi Beta Kappa, Reed College
1942 Tree surgeon (summer)
1941-42 Harvard National Scholarship (terminated by my leaving college for military service)
1941 Valedictorian, New Trier Township High School, Winnetka, Illinois
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