Joseph J. Persky

Professor of Economics

University of Illinois at Chicago

711 University Hall

Department of Economics (M/C 144) Tel: 312-996-2687
601 South Morgan Street, Room 711 Fax: 312-996-3344

University of Illinois at Chicago jpersky@uic.edu
Chicago, Illinois 60607-7121

Education: Ph.D., Harvard University, 1971

Areas of Interest: Urban and Regional Economics. History of Thought. Public Finance. Radical Political Economy.

Current Research: Distributional Consequences of Local Economic Development. Suburban School Expenditures.

Recent Work:

Books:

with Daniel Felsenstein and Virginia Carlson, Does “Trickle Down” Work? Economic Development Strategies and Job Chains in Local Labor Markets, Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004.

with Wim Wiewel, When Corporations Leave Town: The Costs and Benefits of Metropolitan Job Sprawl, Wayne State University Press, 2000.

Articles:

“Rawls’s Thin (Millean) Defense of Private Property,” Utilitas, forthcoming.

With Daniel Felsenstein, “Job Chains and Wage Curves: Worker Mobility and Marshallian Surpluses in Evaluating Local Employment Growth,” Journal of Regional Science, 48:5, 2008, pp. 921-940.

with Daniel Felsenstein, “Evaluating Local Job Creation: ‘A Job Chains’ Perspective,” Journal of the American Planning Association, 73:1, 2007, pp. 23-34.

“From Usury to Interest,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21:1, 2007, pp. 227-236.

with Gilbert Bassett “Conceptualizing Inequality and Risk,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 28:1 , 2006, pp. 81-93.

with Haydar Kurban “Do Federal Spending and Tax Policies Build Cities or Promote Sprawl?” Regional Science and Urban Economics, 33:3, 2003, pp. 361-378.

Public Service:

Member Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers