Résumé
Eugene Silberberg, Ph.D.
EDUCATION:
Education: Stuyvesant High School, l956
B.S., City College of New York, l960, Mathematics and Physics Ph.D., Purdue University, l964, Economics
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
Professor Emeritus of Economics, July 2008, University of Washington, Seattle Professor of Economics, l979 to 2008, University of Washington, Seattle
Associate Professor of Economics, l973 to l979, University of Washington, Seattle Assistant Professor of Economics, l967 to l973, University of Washington, Seattle
BOOKS:
The Structure of Economics, 3
rded.
(McGraw-Hill, 2000) Translated into Japanese, Chinese and Korean by McGraw-Hill. (Third edition with Wing Suen)
Principles of Microeconomics, 4
thed.
(Pearson/Prentice Hall, 1995 – 2004).
HONORS AND AWARDS:
Listed in Who’s Who in Economics
Associate Editor, Economic Inquiry, 1985-96; Chairman of the Editorial Board, 1989-92 Henry Beuchel Teaching Award, 1999
ARTICLES:
“The Diffusion of Tractor Technology”
(with Dinah Duffy Martini) Journal of Economic History, June 2006, 354-89
Four articles for the new edition of The New Palgrave:
The Envelope Theorem, The Marginal Utility of Money, The Le Chatelier Principle, and Hicksian and Marshallian Demands (London: MacMillan Press), forthcoming
“The LeChatelier Principle: the Long and the Short of It,”
(with Wing Suen and Paul Tseng) Economic Theory, September, 2000, 471-76.
“The Viner-Wong Envelope Theorem,”
Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 30, no. 1, (Winter, 1999), 75-79.
“Calculating Changes in Life and Worklife Expectancies”
(with M. Neiswiadomy), Journal of Risk and Insurance (September, 1988), 492-98.
“The Envelope Theorem,”
in The New Palgrave, A Dictionary of Economics, J. Eatwell, M. Milgate and P. Newnam, eds., The Macmillan Press, Ltd., London, 1987 (Vol. 1), 158-59.
“The Marginal Utility of Money,”
in The New Palgrave (Vol. 2), 325-26.
“Ideology and Legislator Shirking” (with D. Nelson),
Economic Inquiry, Vol. 25, No. 1 (January 1987), 15-26.“Race, Recent Entry and Labor Market Participation,”
American Economic Review, Vol. 75, No.5 (December 1985), 1168-79.
“Calculating Changes in Life and Worklife Expectancies,”
Trial News (WSTLA), September, 1985.“Nutrition and the Demand for Tastes,”
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 93, No. 5 (October 1985), 881-900.
“A Modern Analysis of Giffen’s Paradox”
(with D. A. Walker), International Economic Review, Vol. 25, No. 3 (October 1984), 687-694.
“Inflation and Child Support,”
“Economics as a Choice Theoretic Paradigm,”
Choice Models for Buyer Behavior, Research in Marketing, Supplement l, l982.
“Harold Hotelling and Marginal Cost Pricing: Reply,”
Atlantic Economic Journal, IX, No. 4 (December l98l), 38-40.“Harold Hotelling and Marginal Cost Pricing,”
American Economic Review, Vol. 70, No. 5 (December l980), l054-57.
“Using an Economist to Repair a Broken Carpenter,”
Trial News (WSTLA), September-October 1979.
“Shipping the Good Apples Out: The Alchian and Allen Substitution Theorem
Reconsidered”
(with Thomas Borcherding), The Journal of Political Economy (February l978), l3l-38.
“The Theory of the Firm in `Long-run’ Equilibrium,”
American Economic Review (September l974), 734-4l.“A Revision of Comparative Statics Methodology in Economics,”
The Journal of Economic Theory (February l974), l59-72.“Is the Act of Voting Rational”
(with Yoram Barzel), Public Choice, XIII (Autumn l973), 5l-58.
“Duality and the Many Consumer’s Surpluses,”
American Economic Review, LXII (December l972), 942-52.
“Reciprocity and Duality,”
Western Economic Journal, X (March, l972), 95-l00.
See, also, comment by H. Mohring, same issue, “The Samuelson-Silberberg Theorem and Symmetry of the Pure Substitution Terms.”
“Separability and Complementarity,”
American Economic Review, LXII (March l972), l66-67.
“The Le Chatelier Principle as a Corollary to a Generalized Envelope Theorem,”
The Journal of Economic Theory (June l97l), l46-55.“Output Under Discriminating Monopoly: A Revisit,”
The Southern Economic Journal, XXXVII, No. l (July l970), 84-87.
“A Theory of Spatially Separated Markets,”
International Economic Review (June l970), 334-48.“The Demand for Inland Waterway Transportation,”
Chapter 6 of Studies in the Economics of Inland Waterway Transportation, Charles W. Howe, Ed., Resources for the Future, Inc., The Johns Hopkins Press (l969).
“The Demand for Inland Waterway Transportation,”
Water Resources Research, II (first quarter l966), l3-29.RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:
“A Theory of Social Attitudes”PAPERS PRESENTED:
Most of the above articles were presented at various national and regional conferences.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Referee for American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Economic Inquiry, Canadian Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Education Participant in the development of the King County Child Support Guidelines
FACULTY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Teaching:
Microeconomics (graduate and undergraduate levels) Microeconomics Core committee
Regular participant and chair of Ph.D. dissertation committees
University Service:
Chair, Faculty Adjudication Committee, 1995-1999
Member, Faculty Adjudication Committee, University of Washington, 1988-1995
FELLOWSHIPS:
National Defense Fellowship, Purdue University, l960-l963 Thesis Research Grant, Purdue University, l964
Faculty Research Fellowship, New York State, Summer l966
Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Washington, l968-l97l, l973 Sloan Foundation Fellowship, l98l
MISCELLANEOUS:
Recordings:
Uptown Lowdown Jazz Band (Vol. l), l976 Rainier Jazz Band: Live at Mom’s, l982 Rainier Jazz Band: Cakewalk Into Town, 1986
ChordWood String Band: On Fire, 2006. Old Time fiddle music
Cornucopia Concert Band: Nineteenth and twentieth century Americana, 2007 (On sale occasionally at outlets that feature fine music.)
Books:
The Complete Fiddle Tunes I Either Did or Did Not Learn At the Tractor
Tavern
Transcriptions of 569 fiddle tunes as played by musicians in the Puget Sound Area; acquired by the Music School Libraries at the University of Washington and Yale University.
