Department of Economics

Dr. Jeffrey Wagner

Associate Professor
E-mail: jeffrey.wagner@rit.edu
Phone #: (585) 475-5289
Fax #: (585) 475-2510
Campus Address: Building 1, Room 1341
Office Hours: (Spring Quarter 2012) Mondays and Wednesdays, 12-1:50, and by appointment

Courses:

(Spring Quarter 2012)
Econ 211-Principles of Microeconomics
Econ 453-Intermediate Microeconomic Theory

(Winter Quarter 2011-2012)
Econ 456-Industrial Organization
Econ 810-Economics of Sustainability

(Fall Quarter 2011)
Econ 453-Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
Econ 481-Environmental Economics

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Wagner, J. (2012). American Georgics and Globalization: Literary and Economic Co-Evolution in Three Enclosure Movements. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, in press.
Pugliese, T.; Wagner, J. (2011). Competing Impure Public Goods and the Sustainability of the Theater Arts. Economics Bulletin 31(2): 1295-1303.
Wagner, J. (2011). Incentivizing Sustainable Waste Management. Ecological Economics 70(4): 585-594.
Longo, C.; Wagner, J. (2011). Bridging Legal and Economic Perspectives on Interstate Municipal Solid Waste Disposal in the US. Waste Management 31(1): 147-153.
Bhole, B.; Wagner, J. (2010). Punitive Damages and the Recklessness Requirement with Uninformed Injurers. International Review of Law and Economics 30(3): 253-264.
Bhole, B.; Wagner, J. (2009). On the Consideration of Potential Harm in the Award of Punitive Damages. Economics Bulletin 29(2): 1108-1112.
Freitas, L.; Wagner, J. (2009). The Uncertain Moral Context of Price Changes. Ecological Economics 68(4): 1100-1105.
Bhole, B.; Wagner, J. (2008). The Joint Use of Regulation and Strict Liability with Multidimensional Care and Uncertain Conviction. International Review of Law and Economics 28(2): 123-132.
Wagner, J. (2007). Plato's Republic and Liberal Economic Education for the Twenty-First Century. Economics Bulletin 1(2): 1-10.
Wagner, J.; Loschky, D.; McDaniel, C. (2007). Real Income and Mortality in a Household Production Model: English Mortality, 1541 to 1871. Journal of European Economic History 36(1): 47-69.
Freitas, L.; Wagner, J. (2007). Capturing Moral Economic Context. Economics Bulletin 4(14): 1-10.
Benjamin, R.; Wagner, J. (2006). Reconsidering the Law and Economics of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 8(1): 33-53.
Wagner, J. (2006). On the Economics of Sustainability. Ecological Economics 57(4): 659-664.
DeAngelo, G.; Wagner, J. (2005). Characterizing Regulation and Negligence Rule Uncertainty in Solid Waste Management. Economics Bulletin 11(1): 1-11.
Wagner, J. (2004). Free-Riding on Eiseley's Star Thrower, Thoreau's Huckleberry Patch and Havel's Streetcar in the Local and Global Commons. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 11(1): 101-119.
Dyar, J. A.; Wagner, J. (2003). Uncertainty and Species Recovery Program Design. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45(2S): 505-522.
Wagner, J. (2000). Estimating the Optimal Scale of Public Investments: The Case of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities. Journal of Regulatory Economics 17(2): 173-188.
Wagner, J. (1998). That Was Then and This Is Now: An Economist's Wish List for the LLRW Siting Paradigm. Natural Resources Journal 38(4): 635-649.
Bullard, C. W.; Weger, H. T.; Wagner, J. (1998). Managing the Uncertainties of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association 48(8): 701-710.

Selected Conference Presentations

New York State Economics Association, September 2011, Green Consumption under Misperceived Prices: An Application to Active Transportation, (co-presented with Alexander Petre), accepted for presentation in Rochester, New York
Midwest Economics Association, March 2011, Impure Public Goods and the Sustainability of the Theater Arts, (co-presented with Tyler Pugliese), accepted for presentation in St. Louis.
Midwest Economics Association, March 2009, Bridging Legal and Economic Perspectives on Interstate Municipal Solid Waste Disposal, (co-presented with Christine Longo), accepted for presentation in Cleveland.
Southern Economic Association, November 2008, Incentivizing Sustainable Waste Management, accepted for presentation in Washington, DC.
New York State Economics Association, October 2008, Bridging Legal and Economic Perspectives on Interstate Municipal Solid Waste Disposal, (co-presented with Christine Longo), accepted for presentation in Ithaca, New York.
Southern Economic Association,November 2006, The Uncertain Moral Context of Price Changes, Luiz Freitas and Jeffrey Wagner. Accepted for presentation in Charleston.
Midwest Economics Association, March 2006, The Uncertain Moral Context of Price Changes, Luiz Freitas and Jeffrey Wagner. Accepted for presentation in Chicago.
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, June 2005, Are Forecast Disclosure Rules Pareto-Improving? Accepted for poster presentation in Bremen, Germany.
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, June 2003, Free-Riding on Eiseley's Star Thrower, Thoreau's Huckleberry Patch and Havel's Streetcar in the Local and Global Commons. Accepted for presentation in Boston.
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June 2001, Reevaluating Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Policy (with Richard Benjamin). Accepted for presentation in Southampton, UK.
Teaching Economics: Instruction and Classroom Based Research, February 2001, The Virtues of Poetry as a Motivator of Assessable Economic Education. Accepted for presentation in Pittsburgh, PA and published in Conference Proceedings, pp. 185-187.