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Robert Scott Gassler, PhD

Professor of Economics
Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Tel. +32 2 629 27 15 / Fax +32 2 629 36 37
E-mail: rsgassle@vub.ac.be

Subjects taught:
  • Introduction to Economics
  • Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
  • Comparative Economic Systems
  • Economics of Development
  • Senior Seminar in Economics
  • Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
  • International Political Economy
  • Introduction to Statistics

Education:

University of Colorado
Ph.D. Economics - 1981
Colorado, USA

University of Washington
Master of Arts in Economics - 1976
Seattle, Washington, USA

Columbia University
Master of Science in Library Service - 1974
New York, New York, USA

Oberlin College
Bachelor of Arts in Economics - 1970
Ohio, USA

Research Interests:
  • International Political Economy
  • Information Economics
  • Economics of Civil Society
  • Political and Social Economics

Select Publications:

with Jarrod Wiener, International Political Economy (master's-level textbook), in progress.

“Nonprofit Organizations: Governance,” International Encyclopedia of Public Policy: Governance in a Global Age, forthcoming. 

with Martin Mitev, “Economics, Information, and Triangulation,” European Association for Evolutionary Political Economics, Bremen, November 2005. Submitted for publication.

“Political and Social Economics and the Legacy of Oskar Lange,” Contemporary models of the market economy and the thought of Oskar Lange: Conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the great Polish scientist, Warsaw, 27th September 2004.

Beyond Profit and Self-Interest: Economics with a Broader Scope. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003.

The Theory of Political and Social Economics: Beyond the Neoclassical Perspective," Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics, Vol. 9, No.2, 1998, pp.93-124.

Languages:
English with knowledge of Dutch, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish

Nationality:
American