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Economics Department Faculty

Charles E. Phelps

Provost Emeritus
Professor of Political Science and of Economics
Phone: (585) 276-3465
Email: charles.phelps@rochester.edu

Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1973

Curriculum Vitae (pdf file)

Research Interests:

Issues Relating to Scholarly Communication and Digital Technologies

• Testimony on WIPO Treaty Implementation
• "The Future Of Scholary Communication: A Proposal For Change", 1997.
• Achieving Maximal Value from Digital Technologies in a Scholarly Communication, 1998.
• Testimony to the Subcomittee on Courts and Intellectual Property Comittee on the Judiciary U.S. House of Representatives, Legislative hearing on H.R.354, The "Collection of Antipiracy Act", March 18, 1999.
• "Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing", 2000.

The Economic Bulletin (an all-digital economics journal)

Selected Publications:

• "An Apple a Day: A Futuristic Parable", New England Journal of Medicine March 17, 1994, Vol. 330, No. 11.
• "Information Diffusion and Best Practice Adoption," in Handbook of Health Economics, Volume 1, edited by AJ Culyer and JP Newhouse, Elsevier Science B.V., 2000, pp, 224 - 264.
• "The Economic Foundations of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis," with Alan M. Garber, MD, PhD, Journal of Health Economics 1997; 16(1):1 - 31.
• "Good Technologies Gone Bad: Why and How the Cost Effectiveness of Various Medical Interventions Changes for Different Populations," Medical Decision Making, 1997; 17(1):107-112.
• Health Economics, third edition, 2002, Addison Wesley; second ed., 1997, Addison Wesley; first ed., 1992, HarperCollins. French translation, 1995; Chinese translation, 1999.
• "Perspectives in Health Economics," Health Economics 1995, Vol. 4:335-353.
• "Diffusion of Information in Medical Care", Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1992.
• "Priority Setting for Medical Technology and Medical Practice Assessment", Medical Care, 1990.
• "Death and Taxes: An Opportunity for Substitution", Journal of Health Economics, 1988.

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