Stephen John DeCANIO

Background

DeCANIO, Stephen J. was born in 1942 in Crow Agency, Michigan, United States of America.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (Mathematics) University California Berkeley, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1972.

Career

Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1969-1970. Instructor Economics, Simmons College, 1969. Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University, 1970-1972.

Assistant Professor, Association Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1972-1976, 1976-1978.

Association Professor of Economics, University California Santa Barbara, 1978-1981. Professor of Economics, University California Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, since 1981.

Achievements

• Stephen John DeCanio has been listed as a noteworthy economics educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Taxing Energy: Oil Severance Taxation and the Economy (Independent Studies in Political Economy)

    (Severance taxes on the extraction of oil, gas, and other ...)

  • Economic Models of Climate Change: A Critique

    ( The climate policy debate has been dominated by economi...)

  • Agriculture in the Postbellum South: The Economics of Production and Supply (Economic Monograph)

Views

Most of my early work dealt with the economic history of the post-bellum American South. The main focus was development of evidence and methods suitable to determine whether discrimination, exploitation, and other market failures were primarily responsible for the economic and political situation of the freedmen. My conclusion was that market forces were a positive rather than an oppressive factor, and that the chief source of the poverty of the blacks was their lack of property.

This, in turn, was a consequence of the prohibition of property ownership by slaves and the other inequities of slavery. My other work in economic history has been concerned with agricultural supply (particularly the assessment of farmers’ performance in farming expectations) and the economics of wartime finance. In addition to the research in economic history, I have explored the theoretical question of whether agents’ expectations converge to rational expectations equilibria.

Most recently, I have compared the efficiency of different pricing systems in a context of spatial competition.

Membership

Member American Economic Association, Economic History Association.

Interests

• 042 North American (excluding Mexico) Economic History. 210 Econometric, Statistical and Mathematical Methods and Models. 612 Public Policy towards Monopoly and Competition.

Connections

Son of John and Alice (Hamernik) december. Married Anne L. Kirchner, March 1991. Children: Jonathan, Samuel, Aaron.

Father:

John DeCanio

Mother:

Alice (Hamernik) DeCanio

Spouse:

Anne L. Kirchner

child:

Aaron DeCanio

child:

Samuel DeCanio

child:

Jonathan DeCanio