Background
INMAN, Robert Paul was born in 1942 in Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.
(These essays discuss the service sector, an often neglect...)
These essays discuss the service sector, an often neglected area of economic study. The contributors agree that services are replacing manufacturing as the employment base in more advanced economies. Their essays provide valuable insight into the causes, problems and prospects of this transition. Commissioned for the Wharton-ARA Conference on the Service Economy, this collection examines the rise of the prevailing economic order in the United States, Japanese, and international economies and the future and potential of the service sector. The volume concludes with an agenda for future research and policy of the service company.
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INMAN, Robert Paul was born in 1942 in Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.
Bachelor of Arts, Master of Education, Doctor of Philosophy Harvard University, 1964, 1967, 1972.
Assistant Professor Economics and Public Policy, Association Professor Finance and Economics, Wharton School, University Pennsylvania, 1972-1976,
1976-1980. Visiting Senior Scholar, Federal Reserve Bank, Philadelphia, 1980. Visiting Scholar, Birkbeck College, London, 1980.
Professor Finance Economics Public Policy and Management, Wharton School, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America,
1980-.
Association Editor, Public Finance Quarterly.
(These essays discuss the service sector, an often neglect...)
The central focus of my research has been and remains the analysis of the processes for allocating societal resources through non-market mechanisms. My early work focussed on the theory and estimation of government budgeting, applied to local governments because of the rich institutional variation across observa
tions. This early work was an extension of well-known economic models of political allocations.
More recent work has attempted to test the validity of this procedure (Number. 5 above) as well as to develop alternative models of political allocations based on the theory of efficient bargains (Number. 8 above) and the theory of structure-induced, majorityrule equilibrium (Number.
10 above). In addition to constructing and testing predictive (positive) models of government allocation, my work has proposed and examined alternative reforms of the process of public-sector allocations. Judicial reform of government performance, constitutional reform, and fiscal (id est (that is), grants-in-aid) reform have all been examined in various research papers. I retain a secondary, but active research interest in health care policy and in urban economics and policy.
I am currently completing a major study on the economic consequences of disabling illnesses (and the use of social insurance for the disabled) as well as a book-length manuscript on urban economic development and urban fiscal crises. I anticipate continued research in these areas.