Background
Lindsay, Cotton Mather was born on June 17, 1940 in Atlanta. Son of Paul Leonard and Elizabeth (Mather) Lindsay.
Lindsay, Cotton Mather was born on June 17, 1940 in Atlanta. Son of Paul Leonard and Elizabeth (Mather) Lindsay.
Bachelor of Business Administration, University Georgia, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, University Virginia, 1968.
Assistant Professor, Association Professor, Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, Calif., United States of America, 1969-1974, 1974-1980 . Fellow, Hoover Institute, Institution, Stanford University, 1975-1976. Distinguished Visiting Professor of Economics, Arizona State University, 1977.
Visiting Professor
Economics, Professor of Economics, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 1980-1981. 1981^.
J. Wilson Newman Professor Managerial Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America, since 1984.
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Author: Veterans Administration Hospitals, 1975, Equal Pay for Comparable Work, 1980, National Health Issues: The British Experience, 1980, Applied Price Theory, 1984.
The focus of my earliest work reflected the active development at the University of Virginia in the 1960s of theories seeking to derive normative implications from public choice models. Papers on such
varied topics as option demand, tax deductions and nonmarket distribution of medical care sought to explain government behaviour in terms of Paretopreferred interventions seeking to avoid or internalise market tendencies toward inefficiencies. The observation that it was difficult to interest anyone (especially law-makers) in conclusion of this type led me away from this work toward strictly positive analysis of government behaviour, stressing selfinterest and rent-seeking as the motivating forces.
An early product of this stage was the publication of my ‘government enterprise’ paper in 1976.
This paper sought to illuminate the internal consistencies of the ‘budget maximisation’ paradigm of the time and to replace it with a more logically appealing foundation. This work continues to interest me, and more recent work in this line includes the paper with Tom Hall on the behaviour of medical schools and the paper written with Ben Zycher on the distributional implications of the adoption of national health insurance in Canada. The topic of physician supply led to a number of papers seeking explicitly to develop and incorporate institutional behaviour into what had until this time been treated as being stricly determined by entrant decisions.
Several papers written with Keith Leffler sought to develop empirically medical school capacity as endogenous to the problem. My paper on the measurement of human capital returns not only improved the performance of the forecasting models developed in this connection, but helped to explain the apparent continuing high returns to human capital in occupations requiring high levels of this investment.
Member of Mont Pelerin Society, Public Choice Society, Southern Economics Association, American Economic Association.
Married Bonnie Sue McClay, January 19, 1963 (divorced 1976). Children: Paul Mather, Jefferson Davis. Married Mary Featherstone Osler, May 14, 1977.