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Douglas
A. Smith Professor Economics
Department Carleton
University Ottawa,
Ontario Canada 613-520-2600
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Econ 3804 Environmental Economics: Course Outline ECON 3804
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Degrees: |
B.Com. M.A. Ph.D. |
University of Toronto, Commerce, 1967 University of Toronto, Department of Economics,
1968 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept.
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1990- |
Professor, Department of Economics, Carleton
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1977-89 |
Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
Carleton University |
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1983-88 |
Chairman, Department of Economics,
Carleton University |
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1978-79 |
Visiting Associate Professor, Department
of Economics, University of Virginia |
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1972-77 |
Assistant Professor, Department of
Economics, Carleton University
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Courses Taught: |
Undergraduate: Principles of Economics, Intermediate Economics,
Labour Economics, Industrial Relations, Environmental Economics. Graduate: Labour Economics, Cost-Benefit Analysis,
Resource and Environmental Economics.
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Books: |
The
Economics of Vertical Disintegration:
Contracting Out and Service Sector Growth (Vancouver, Fraser Institute, 1989), 115 pp.
(With D.G. McFetridge) Global
Benefits and Costs of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete
the Ozone Layer,
(Ottawa, Environment Canada, 1997) 70 pp. (with K. Vodden et al.)
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Chapters: |
“The Development of Employment and
Training Programs” in A.M. Maslove (ed.) How Ottawa Spends
(Ottawa, Methuen, 1984). "Contracting Out in Canada:
Empirical Estimates" (with D.G. McFetridge) in J. Boivin
(ed.) Some Aspects of International
Industrial Relations (CIRA, 1989) pp. 90-95. "Trends in Canadian Environmental
Policy", in K. Graham (ed.) How Ottawa Spends, Carleton
University Press, 1990, pp. 113-136. "The Economics of the Green
Society" (with J.F. Chant and D.G. McFetridge) in J. Bennett
and W. Block (eds.) Reconciling Economics and the Environment
Australian Institute for Public Policy, 1991, pp. 11-96. "The Economics of Protecting
the Ozone Layer" in J. Bennett and W. Block (eds.) Reconciling
Economics and the Environment, Australian Institute for Public
Policy, 1991, pp. 175-184. "Pension Coverage in Ontario:
The Roles of Collective Bargaining and Firm Size" (with
R.A. Meng) in A. Ponak (ed.), Teaching and Research in Industrial
Relations (CIRA, 1991), pp. 351-360. "The Implementation of Canadian
Policies to Protect the Ozone Layer" in G.B. Doern (ed.) Getting
it Green: Case Studies in
Canadian Environmental Regulation (C.D. Howe Institute, 1991)
pp. 111-128. "Economic Evaluation of Program
Efficiency" in J. Hudson, J. Mayne and R. Thomlison (eds.) Organizing,
Planning and Doing Program Evaluations in Canada, (Wall and Emerson, 1992) pp. 180-192. “An Economic Perspective on the Development
of Sector Councils in Canada” in M. Gunderson and A. Sharpe (eds.)
The Emergence of Sector Councils in Canada, (University of
Toronto Press, 1997). “Labour Market Forecasting in Canada”
in Klaus Schoemann (ed.)
Labour Market Policies in OECD Countries, Edward Elgar,
October, 2002.
“Patents, Prospects and Economic Surplus”, (with D. G. McFetridge) in S. Margolis and C. Newmark (eds.) Intellectual Property and Business, Volume II, Part I, Patents, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010.
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Papers: |
“Patents, Prospects and Economic
Surplus” (with D.G. McFetridge), Journal of Law and Economics,
v. 23, April 1980, pp. 197-203. “The Impact of Demographic Changes
on Unemployment” (with Frank Reid), Canadian Public Policy,
v. 7, no. 2, Spring 1981. “Collective Administration of Copyright:
An Economic Analysis”, Research in Law and Economics,
v. 8, 1986, pp. 137-151. "Recent Proposals for Copyright
Revision: An Evaluation": Canadian
Public Policy, V. 14, No. 2, June, 1988, pp. 175-185. "Global Environmental Policy:
The Case of Ozone Depletion" (with K. Vodden) Canadian Public
Policy, December 1989. "The Valuation of Risk of Death
in Public Sector Decision-Making" (with R. Meng), Canadian
Public Policy, V. 16, No. 2, 1990, pp. 121-136. "Union Impacts on The Receipt
of Workers' Compensation Benefits", Industrial Relations
(Laval) V. 48 no. 3, 1993, pp. 502-517. “The Impact of Workers’ Compensation
on Wage Premiums for Job Hazards” (with R. Meng) Applied Economics,
v. 31, 1999, pp. 1101-1108. “Economic Valuation of Meteorological
Products and Services”, Socio-Economic Valuation of Meteorological
Products and Services, Workshop Proceedings, Meteorological Service
of Canada, Toronto, 2003.
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Presentations: |
“Trade Unions and Inflation” School
of Advanced international Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington,
D.C., January 1975. “Collective Administration of Copyright”
University of Western Ontario, London, April, 1984. ”The Economics of Copyright Reform”,
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, April, 1986. "Increased Competitive Pressure
and Contracting Out in Canada" Canadian Industrial Relations
Association, Hamilton, June, 1987. "Applications of Benefit-Cost
Analysis to the Regulation of Product Safety" Interdepartmental Committee on Regulatory Affairs, Ottawa, June
1, 1988. "Contracting Out in Canada:
Empirical Estimates", Industrial Relations Congress of the Americas,
Quebec City, August 1988. Paper
based on joint work with D.G. McFetridge. "Impact Assessment for Global
Environmental Problems: Ozone
Depletion" presented at the 8th Annual Meeting International
Association for Impact Assessment, Montreal, June, 1989. "Costs and Benefits of Protecting
The Ozone Layer" International Atlantic Economic Conference,
Montreal, October, 1989. "The Impacts of Collective Bargaining
and Firm Size on Pension Coverage" Canadian Industrial Relations Association, Victoria, B.C., May,
1990. “The Social Cost of Motor Vehicle
Collisions in Ontario”, co-author, Second World Conference on Injury
Control, Atlanta, April, 1993. “The Enforcement of Copyright through
Collectives”, Copyright in Transition, sponsored by the Canadian Intellectual
Property Institute, Ottawa, October, 1994. “The Development of Sector Councils
in Canada: An Economic Perspective”, Conference on the Emergence of
Sector Councils in Canada, sponsored by the University of Toronto
Centre for Industrial Relations and the Centre for the Study of Living
Standards, Montreal, January, 1996. “Forecasting Future Skill Needs in
Canada”, Conference on Learning Processes and Future Skill Requirements
in OECD Countries, WZB-Research
Institute for Social Studies,( Berlin). “Sustaining Environmental Quality”,
Canada in the 21st Century, Centre for the Study of Living Standards-Industry
Canada Conference, Ottawa, September, 1999. “Labour Market Adjustment in Health
Systems”, Paper presented at Meeting of the Global Health Workforce
Strategy Group (GHWSG), Annecy, France, 9-12 December 2000. Sponsored by the World Health Organisation and the World Bank.
http://www.who.int/health-services-delivery/human/workforce/index.htm “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Labour
Market Programs”, Paper presented at the National Conference Economic
Evaluations: Making the Case with Dollars and Sense, Prevention Dividend
Project, Ottawa, October 29, 2001. “Adjustment in Health Sector Labour Markets” Discussant paper
presented at the International Conference on Imbalances in the Health
Workforce sponsored by the World Health Organisation, Ottawa, March
11, 2002.
“Cost-Benefit Assessments of Labour Market Programs”, paper
presented to a conference on Economic Evaluations of Government Programs
sponsored by the Prevention Dividend Project, Ottawa, October 2001. “Adjustment
in Health Sector Labour Markets” discussant paper presented to a conference
on Imbalances in the Health Workforce, sponsored by the World Health
Organization, Ottawa, March, 2002. “Developing Measures of Labour Market Well-being”, discussant
paper presented at the Canadian Economics Association Meetings, Ottawa,
May, 2003.
“The Social Value of Meteorological Information” Paper presented at a Societal and Economics Research and Applications (SERA) conference at the University of Waterloo on The Economics of Weather, Climate and Climate Change, Adaptation and Impacts Research Division, Environment Canada, Waterloo, Ontario, February 22-24, 2008. |
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