Wallace E. Oates

Wallace E. Oates (March 21, 1937 – October 30, 2015) was a distinguished university professor emeritus at the University of Maryland.[1]

He taught in the fields of public economics and environmental economics.[1] His first book was Fiscal Federalism (1972) and he authored numerous other books and articles, including The Theory of Environmental Policy (1975), coauthored with William J. Baumol. He was considered a major figure in the area of public economics. A Festschrift, Environmental and public economics : essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates, was published in his honor in 1999,[2] and an additional volume of his selected essays in 2004.[3] Another Festschrift, The Tiebout Model at fifty : essays in public economics in honor of Wallace Oates was published in his honor in 2006.[4]

He received his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford in 1965 and joined the faculty at Princeton University.[1] He began at the University of Maryland in 1979.[5]

Publications

References

  1. 1 2 3 "In Memoriam: Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Wallace Oates". University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. November 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. WorldCat
  3. Oates, Wallace E. Environmental Policy and Fiscal Federalism: Selected Essays of Wallace E. Oates. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Pub, 2004.World Cat item entry
  4. Cambridge, Mass: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006.
  5. http://econweb.umd.edu/~oates/bio.htm
  6. WorldCat item record
  7. WorldCat item record
  8. http://www.worldcat.org/title/fiscal-federalism/oclc/794571639&referer=brief_results

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