Curriculum Vitae                   JAMES PAXTON STODDER                 November 2009

Clinical Associate Professor, Lally School of Management & Technology

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Hartford, 275 Windsor St., Hartford, CT 06120-2991

www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/~stodder, stoddj@rpi.edu, (860) 548-7860; (800) 523-6468

 

 

Areas:   International, Comparative Systems, Public Finance, Law & Economics.

Languages: Spanish (fluent); Russian (conversational); French, Portuguese (read).

Teaching: Assistant Professor (1990-97), Rensselaer Polytechnic – MBA course in Business Economics; graduate Microeconomics; undergraduate Economics, Econometrics.

Clinical Assistant Professor (1997-2003), Rensselaer Hartford –School of Mgmt & Tech: MBA courses in Business Economics.

    Clinical Associate Professor (2003-present), Rensselaer-Hartford, MBA courses in Business and International Economics, Finance. Students at IBM, UTC, General Dynamics, Lockheed-Martin, and Con-Edison.  Macroeconomics at US Coast Guard Academy (2005-07). Risk-Assessment course for People’s Bank of China and Tianjin Economic Development Area, 2007.

 

Refereed Publications:

1)           “Complementary Credit Networks and Macro-Economic Stability: Switzerland’s Wirtschaftsring,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, (October, 2009).

2)           Basuchoudhary et al., “Price Discrimination and Resale: A Classroom Experiment,” Journal of Economic Education, (Summer 2008), http://econ.arizona.edu/downloads/working_papers/Econ-WP-05-14.pdf

3)           “Strategic Voting and Coalitions: Condorcet and Ben-Gurion,” Int’l Review of Econ. Education, 4(2), (2005), www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/iree/v4n2/stodder.htm.

4)           “Corporate Barter and Macroeconomic Stabilization,” International Journal of Community Currencies, 2(1), (Spring 1998), www.geog.le.ac.uk/ijccr/vol1-3/2toc.htm. 

5)           “Experimental Moralities: The Ethics of Classroom Experiments,” Journal of Econ. Education, 29(2), (Sp. 1998), www.indiana.edu/~econed/issues/v29_2/3.htm.

6)           “Double-Surnames and Gender Equality: A Proposition and the Spanish Case,” Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 35(3), (August 1998).

7)           “Complexity Aversion: Simplification in the Herrnstein and Allais Behaviors,” Eastern Economic Journal, (23)1, (Winter 1997).

8)           “The Evolution of Externality Rights: Flexibility versus Ambiguity,” European Journal of Law and Economics, (March 1996).

9)           “The Evolution of Complexity in Primitive Economies: Theory,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 20(1), (February 1995).

10)      “The Evolution of Complexity in Primitive Economies: Empirical Tests,” Journal of Comparative Economics, 20(2), (May 1995).

11)      “Ex‑Communist Economics: Capital Reform,” New York Econ. Review, (Fall 1993).

12)      “Equity‑Efficiency Preferences in Poland and the Soviet Union: Order Reversals under the Atkinson Index,” Review of Income and Wealth, (37)3, (September 1991).

 

 Currently Under Submission:

1)     (Co-author Houman Younessi) “Transparency and Credible Commitment: Global Price Discrimination,” submitted Nov. 2008 to Int. J. of Health Care Finance & Economics.

 

Other Working Papers

1)    “The Penguin’s Other Coase: Network Externalities and New Intellectual Property Rights,” Eastern Economic Association Meetings, February, 2009.

2)    “Computational Efficiency and Macroeconomic Stability under Centralized Exchange: Evidence from Swiss and US Exchange Data,” Society for Computational Economics at conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Washington, D.C., June 2005.

3)    “Complexity Measures and Macroeconomic Stability of Centralized and Decentralized Exchange: Evidence from Cross-Cultural Anthropological Data,” Society for Computational Economics at conference on Computing in Economics and Finance, Washington, D.C., June 2005.

4)    (Co-authored with Peter Schroth) "Transparency, Education, and Health: Complementary Public Goods," presented at the XIII World Congress of Intn’l Economics Association (IEA), Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2002, www.rh.edu/~stodder/Uncorrupt.mht.

5)    (Co-authored with Peter Schroth and Preeti Sharma) "Transparency and Information Technology: Toward an Empirical Relationship" International Academy of African Business and Development (IAABD) Conference, London, April 2003; recipient of conference "Highly Commended" award.

6)    "Educational Supply, and the Demand for Science and Technology Workers," presented at IEEE Engineering Management Conference, Cambridge (UK), August 2002.

7)    (Co-authored with Bob Emiliani) "A Logical Basis for the Stakeholder Business Model”.

8)    “Consumer Confidence and Income Inequality,” presented at the XII World Congress of the International Economics Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 1999.

 

Other Publications:

·        On Economic Systems and Public Finance

1)     “A Bailout that Puts Taxpayers First,” op-ed, Hartford Courant, October 2, 2008.

2)    “China: Threat and Opportunity,” Hartford Courant (Sunday Commentary section, September 23, 2007)

3)    Better Thinking, Better Results: Using the Power of Lean as a Total Business Solution, co-authored with Bob Emiliani, Lawrence Grasso, and David Stec, Center for Lean Business Management, 2003.  This book won the Shingo Prize for Research on Lean Management, 2003, (http://www.shingoprize.org/Recipients/RschPrize/2003.htm.)

4)    "Reciprocal Exchange Networks: Implications for Macroeconomic Stability," Proceed-ings of the 2000 IEEE Engineering Management Society, Aug., Albuquerque, NM.

5)    “Redistributive Liberalism,” Economic Systems, Osteuropa Institut, University of Munich (March 1998), http://www.rh.edu/~stodder/SOVEQ3.html.

6)    "Human Computability and the Institutions of Exchange," chapter in Economy & Society: Money, Capitalism and Transition, Fikret Adaman and Pat Devine, Eds. Karl Polanyi Institute at Concordia University, Montreal: Black Rose, 2001.

7)    (Co-authored with Paul Phillips) “Market Socialism”, Encyclopedia of Political Economy, edited by Philip O'Hara, London: Routledge, 1998.

8)    Karl Polanyi On Ethics and Economics by Gregory Baum, University of Montreal, 1996, reviewed in Tradition & Discovery, Vol. 23, no. 3 (1996-97).

9)    Beyond Capitalism: Towards a New World Economic Order, by Cowling and Sugden, St. Martin’s Press, 1994, review, Comparative Economic Studies (Fall 1995).

10)           Soviet Industry from Stalin to Gorbachev, by Joseph Berliner, Cornell U. Press, 1988, reviewed in Slavic Studies (Winter 1991).

 

·        On Experimental Economics and Complexity

1)    “Putting Induction Back: Economics without the 'Con' of Pure Deduction.” chapter in the book, Complexity and the Teaching of Economics, published by Edgar Elgar Press, UK (2000); with contributions by Brian Arthur, William Brock, David Colander, Fred Pryor, Deirdre McCloskey, Barkley Rosser, Michel Rothschild, and others.

2)    “A Comparative Advantage Experiment,” in Classroom Experiments: A User’s Guide, Greg Delemeester and John Neral (eds.) Houghton & Miflin Co. (1995). 

3) “An Experiment on Externality Rights,” Classroom Expernomics  (Spring 1996), www.marietta.edu/~delemeeg/expernom/s96.html.

4)    “What is Being Taught in Voluntary Contribution Experiments?” Classroom Expernomics (Fall 1994), www.marietta.edu/~delemeeg/expernom/f94.html.

5)    “A Simple Experiment in Comparative Advantage,” Classroom Expernomics (Spring 1994), www.marietta.edu/~delemeeg/expernom/s94.html.

 

·        On the State & Regional Economy

1)    “Connecticut’s Property Tax Burden: Asking the Right Questions,” commissioned by American State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 4.  Presented to State Legislature, February 14, 2008.    

2)    “Property Tax Cap Would Perpetuate Inequalities,” Hartford Courant, Feb. 6, 2008.

3)    “Connecticut’s ‘Tax Expenditures’ -- a form of spending Best Left in the Dark?” Testimony before the State Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, April 2005, www.rh.edu/~stodder/TaxExpenditures.doc.

4)    “How Regressive are Connecticut Property Taxes?" The Connecticut Economy, (Fall 2002), http://ccea.uconn.edu/TCE_Issues/FALL02PP1-9.pdf. 

5)    “Are Connecticut’s Incomes Getting More Unequal?” The Connecticut Economy, Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis (Winter 1998), http://ccea.uconn.edu/TCE_Issues/winter98.pdf. 

6)    “Rough Recovery: Connecticut’s Trend of Widening Economic Inequality,” The Commonwealth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, (March 1998).

7)    “Connecticut’s ‘Recovery’: More Hype than Hope,” Hartford Courant, July 8, 1997.

8)    “Corp. Tax Reform: Small Companies, Small State,” Hartford Courant (Apr. 15, 1996).

9)    “In the Age of Smart Weapons, Can Connecticut’s Defense Industry Play Smart?” Manchester Journal-Inquirer (April 12, 1996).

10)           “Connecticut’s Workforce: Our Vanishing Future?” co-authored with Robert Bahnsen, Manchester Journal-Inquirer (November 1995).

11)           “The Case for Holding Run-off Elections,” Litchfield County Times  (January 1995)

12)           “To Decide Who Gets the Nuclear Waste,” Hartford Courant (July 1991).

 

·        Teaching Initiatives

1)    Anti-Plagiarism initiative, empirical study and pilot program for students’ self-submitting their essays to Turnitin.com (Fall 2007 to Present).

2)    New course on Financial Econometrics (Spring 2009).

 

·        Expert Testimony, Consulting, Community Service

1)    Guest on “The Corner” radio show, interviewed by Phil Mikan on economic crisis, WDRC-AM 1360, Feb. 24, 2009.

2)    Interviewed on WTIC-AM 1080 NewsTalk segment, Colin McEnroe show, Dec. 2, 2008.  Longer interview posted on WTIC website.

3)    Public Lecture on Financial Crisis, Rensselaer-Hartford, Nov. 16, 2008.  Covered on Hartford’s major talk radio channel, WTIC (1060 AM).

4)    Interviewed, quoted by Hartford Courant reporter Stan Simpson, Oct. 22, 2008.

5)    “A Bailout that Puts Taxpayers First,” op-ed, Hartford Courant, October 2, 2008.

6)    Guest on WTIC-AM 1080 Morning Show, interviewed by Ray Dunaway, Sept. 30, 2008.

7)        Press Conference on my Property Tax study (see #1, previous section) Feb. 14, 2008, Legislative Office Building.  Introduction by Sal Luciano, President of  CT-AFSCME and member of Governor’s Blue Ribbon Panel on Property Tax, and Ned Lamont, Fairfield businessman and 2006 Democratic nominee for US Senate.

8)        President, Hartford Area Business Economists, 2005-06, (affiliated with the National Association of Business Economists, www.nabe.com).

9)         Member of Review Board for “Club of Rome” Report, Our Future Economy: Money and Sustainability, the Missing Link, by Bernard Lietaer and Stefan Brunnhuber, forthcoming: www.clubofrome.org/activities/reports.php.

10)                Invited Testimony before the Connecticut General Assembly’s Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee, on Connecticut’s “Tax Expenditures,” April 2005.

11)                Member of the Critical Review Panel for major study of land use planning in the state, funded by the Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford: Connecticut Metro-patterns: A Regional Agenda for Community and Prosperity in Connecticut, by Myron Orfield and Thomas Luce, Metropolitan Area Research Corp., 2003.  (See Connecticut listing: www.metroresearch.org/projects/region_maps.asp.) 

12)                Pro Bono work with Attorney Katherine Emmett of Stamford, CT, on behalf of relatives of September 11^th victims, Federal Victims’ Compensation Panel, 2003.

13)                Research on Professional Education, Connecticut Economic Resources Center, Fall 2000.  Paper presented at IEEE Engineering Management Conference, Cambridge (UK), August 2002: "Educational Supply, and the Demand for Science and Tech Workers."

14)           Chief economics advisor to Bill Curry, Democratic Candidate for Governor, Connecticut, 2002.

15)           Led panels at conferences of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, www.icic.org/, 2000 and 2001.

16)           Written and oral testimony in labor arbitration cases for New England Health Care Employees (SEIU-1199), American Federations of State, County, & Municipal Employees (AFSCME, District 4), and CT State Employees Association (CSEA), Connecticut Conference of Community College Instructors, from 1993 to 2007.

17)           Written and oral testimony in employment and pension cases for attorneys Henry Murray of Hartford, CT (2000), Katherine Emmett of Stamford, CT (1999-2003), David Golub of Stamford, CT (2003-06), Robert Krzys of Hartford, CT (2000-06), David Livingston of Hartford (2007).

18)           Testimony poverty and inequality on behalf of Citizens for Connecticut's Children and Youth, before the Joint Finance Committee of the Connecticut State Legislature, 1998-2001.