Geoism and Demand Revealing Processes

[Robert J Conlan <conlan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

	Two new papers on Geoism and demand revealing processes by Edward
H. Clarke (Clarke Tax) are available on the web at:

	http://www2.hawaii.edu/~conlan/progress.html

1. "Geoism and the Practice of Public Economics". Presentation at the
Annual Conference of Georgist Organizations, Plainfield, New Jersey
(August, 1997)

2. "Incentive Compatible Resource Allocation: An Application to
'Distributive' Federal Programs". Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the Southern Economics Association, Washington, D. C. (November, 1996).

Edward Clarke - Biography

	Ed Clarke is currently a Senior Economist with the U. S. Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs .

	He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of
Chicago, where he received a MBA and a PhD (1978). He has worked in public
policy at the city/regional (Chicago), State, Federal and international
levels. Ed has been a Federal government economist in OMB for 18 of the
last 24 years.

	Before that, Ed worked as a urban economic analyst with the Real
Estate Research Corportation of Chicago and the State of Illinois Bureau
of the Budget (as economic advisor to the Director). He has served as
special assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury (1972-73) and chief
economist at A. I. D's Bureau of Planning and Policy Coordination
(1983-85). From 1985 to 1987, he served as as foreign service economist in
Morocco and Haiti.

	During the mid-70s, after joining OMB, he was heavily involved in
airline and trucking deregulation. He currently works at OMB on matters
affecting the regulation of transportation.

	In the field of public economics, Ed (in the late 1960's)
developed the demand revealing mechanism for public project selection
which was noted in the Nobel Committee's award of the 1996 Nobel Prize in
Economics to William Vickrey. A recent (1995) Transportation Research
Board (TRB) paper (coauthored with Brough and Tideman), illustrates the
potential applicability of the Vickrey and Clarke/Groves demand revealing
mechanisms to problems of transportation congestion.


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