Robert Clarence Lind

Background

Lind, Robert Clarence was born on June 23, 1937 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Clarence Samuel and Harriet (Schreur) Lind.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Yale University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy Stanford University, 1966.

Career

Assistant professor economics University Washington, Seattle, 1966-1967. Assistant professor engineering, economics systems Stanford (California) University, 1967-1970, associate professor, 1970-1971, associate professor graduate school business, 1971-1974. Professor economic management, public policy Cornell University, Ithaca, 1974—1999, professor emeritus, since 1999.

Senior consultant CRA International, Boston, 2000—2008. Co-founder, director Compound Photonics, since 2006. Co-founder, partner CEG North America, since 2008.

President The Washington Campus, Inc., 1979-1985.

Works

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  • Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy (RFF Energy Policy Set)

    (This is a collection of theoretical papers, including con...)

  • Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy (RFF Press)
  • Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy (RFF Energy Policy Set) by Lind, Robert C., Arrow, Kenneth J., Corey, Gordon R., Dasgup (2011) Hardcover

• Other Work

  • Co-author: Discounting for Time and Risk in Energy Policy, 1982.

Views

The major thrust of my research, publication, consulting, and teaching up until six or seven years ago dealt with the analysis of public investment and policy discussions. This work included theoretical pieces dealing with the treatment of uncertainty, the choice of the appropriate rate of discount, and methods for correctly measuring benefits and costs, and it also included many applications of this framework of analysis to the fields of energy, water resources, health care, criminal justice, and employment

policy. Over the past five or six years, however, my interests have expanded to include macroeconomic theory and policy and the policy-related aspects of industrial organisation such as antitrust and regulatory policy.

This has been coupled with a growing conviction that you cannot analyse economic policy without including a fundamental analysis of the political process and environment in which that policy is formulated, enacted, and implemented.

My interest in macroeconomic theory and policy grew out of my work on the social rate of discount and the fact that one cannot separate individual public investment decisions from the overall macroeconomic environment which in most cases is the driving economic force in budgetary decisions. My interest and work on antitrust and regulatory issues stems both from my extensive involvement as an expert in litigation and from the fact that the many sectors of the United States economy are being reshaped by antitrust and regulatory policy, including deregulation.

A final area of current research, teaching, and consulting, addresses the broad question of how corporate management can participate in the political process on economic issues. This involves the entire field of study of the relationship of business to government and the public policy process.

Membership

Director Stanford Institute for Public Policy Analysis, 1969-1971. Member American Law and Economic Association, American Economic Association, International Association Energy Economics, Yale Club New York, Cornell Club.

Connections

Married Gretchen Gayle (divorced 1967). Married Joan Squires-Lind, February 21, 1968 (divorced 1998). Married Elizabeth C. Wesman, October 10, 1998.

Children: Jason Mark-Alexander, Vanessa Antonia-Alexandra.

Father:

Clarence Samuel Lind

Mother:

Harriet (Schreur) Lind

Spouse:

Gretchen Gayle

Spouse:

Joan Squires-Lind

Spouse:

Elizabeth C. Wesman

child:

Jason Mark-Alexander Lind

child:

Vanessa Antonia-Alexandra Lind