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Academic Background

B.A., social sciences, Hendrix College
A.M., economics, Washington University
Ph.D., economics, Washington University

Research Specialties

• Creative industries
• Nonprofit sector
• Organizational governance and architecture
• Applied public finance
• Strategy
  

Current Research

• Public participation in the performing arts
• Arts, sports, and metropolitan growth
• Strategic behavior in the performing arts
• Nonprofit financial indicators and organizational success
  

Major Works

• Co-author. The Economics of Art and Culture, 3rd edition. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
• "Hope for the Future? Childhood Exposure to the Arts and Adult Visits to Art Museums," Journal of Cultural Economics 22 (1998).
• Turning On and Tuning In: Public Participation in the Arts via Media. Seven Locks Press for the National Endowment for the Arts, 1995.
• Editor and contributor. The Costs of Crime. Sage Publications, 1979.
• Co-author. "Cost Effectiveness of Residential Community Corrections," Evaluation Quarterly (August, 1978). Reprinted, U.S. Department of Justice (1978).
• Co-author. "Metropolitan Area Growth: A Test of Export Base Concepts," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (July, 1970).
  

Significant Scholarly Honors

• President, Association for Cultural Economics  International
• Advisory Board, National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise
• University Scholar, University of St. Thomas
  

Other Professional Activity

• Editor, "Nonprofit Management and Leadership"
• Advisory Board, National Center on Nonprofit Enterprise
  

Current Community Relations

• Advisory Position, Tubman Family Alliance