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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., Feb. 28, 2003–On Thursday, March 6, Stephen Sheppard, the James Phinney Baxter III Professor of Public Affairs, will conclude the 2003 Faculty Lecture Series at Williams with his talk on “Local Action with Global Consequences: Urban Expansion in a World of Cities,” when he will discuss urban growth in developing countries. The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. in the Thompson Chemistry Laboratory’s Wege Auditorium. The lecture is free and the public cordially invited.
Sheppard’s expertise lies in the field of urban economics, land use regulation, housing markets, local public finance, and environmental economics.
His work on urban economic policy, natural resource economics, and land markets has appeared in such scholarly journals as the Parliament Review and the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. He has also served as a referee or reviewer for more than 20 economic journals.
As a consultant for the World Bank, he prepared analyses of land use in Eastern Asia and of the effects of fiscal constraints on public servant quality.
Before coming to Williams, he taught at Oberlin College, Washington University, and the London School of Economics.
Sheppard received his B.Sc. from the University of Utah and his Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis.
The 2003 Faculty Lecture Series: “Globalization and Us” was planned and organized by Helga Druxes, professor of German and Russian; Gene Bell-Villada, professor of Romance Languages; and Soledad Fox, assistant professor of Romance Languages.
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Published February 28, 2003
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