LINDA R. COHEN
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
UC Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697
949-824-5189
and
Professor of Social Science and Law
The Law School
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0071
213-740-6287
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
A.B. University of California, Berkeley, mathematics, 1974
Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, social sciences, 1979
FIELDS
Political economy, government regulation, government policy for research and innovation, positive political theory and law
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD
1978-80 Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
1980-82 Economist Associate, Economics Department, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
1982-83 Senior Economist, Environmental Quality Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
1983-85 Research Associate, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution, Washington,D.C.
1986-87 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Washington
1987- University of California, Irvine, Department of Economics
1987-88: Visiting Assistant Professor
1988-91 Assistant Professor
1991-95 Associate Professor
1995 - Professor of Economics
1998-2001 Chair, Department of Economics
1988- Member, Irvine Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, U. C. Irvine
1990 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics and Law, University of Southern California
1993 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Southern California Law Center and Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, CalTech
1998 Olin Visiting Professor in Law and Economics, University of Southern California Law School
2001 Professor of Social Science and Law, University of Southern California Law School
HONORS
1998 Fellow, California Council for Science and Technology
1993; 1998 Olin Fellow in Law and Economics
1977 Research fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1978-80 Assistant Editor, Public Policy
1980-82 Member, DOE Program Review Committee on Airborne Nuclear Waste Management
1986-87 Member, Advisory Panel in Support of the Office of Technology Assessment,U.S. Congress, Assessment of Magnetic Fusion Research and Development
1986-88 Member, Panel on the Study of Human Factors Research Needs in Nuclear Regulatory Research, National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council
1991-94 Member, District Advisory Council, South Coast Air Quality Management District
1994 - Editorial Board, Public Choice
1997-2000 Member, National Research Council Committee on Information Technology: Research in a Competitive World (Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, NRC, National Academy of Sciences)
1999-2001 Member, Advisory Panel for the Public Interest Energy Research Program, California Energy Commission
1999-2001 Member, National Research Council Committee on the Benefits of DOE Research and Development on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy (Board on Energy and Environmental Systems, NRC, National Academy of Sciences)
2001 Council Member, California Council for Science and Technology
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Technology Pork Barrel, with Roger Noll, The Brookings Institution, 1991.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
"Communication and Agenda Influence: The Chocolate Pizza Design," with Michael E. Levine and Charles R. Plott, in Contributions to Experimental Economics, vol. 7, ed. by H. Sauermann, Tubingen: Mohr, 1978.
"Cyclic Sets in Multidimensional Voting Models," Journal of Economic Theory, February, 1979.
"Constrained Plott Equilibria, Directional Equilibria, and Global Cycling Sets," with Steven Matthews, Review of Economic Studies, XLVII, 1980.
"Innovation and Atomic Energy: Nuclear Power Regulation, 1966-Present," Journal of Law and Contemporary Problems, vol. 43, no. 1, 1980.
"The Economics of Disaster Defenses: Building Codes to Resist Seismic Shocks," with Roger Noll, Public Policy, vol. 29, no. 1, Winter, 1981.
"Who Pays the Bill: Insuring Against Risks from Low Level Nuclear Waste Disposal," National Resources Journal, vol. 21, Oct., 1981.
"A Spot Market for Electricity: Preliminary Analysis of the Florida Energy Broker," The RAND Corporation, N-1817-DOE, Santa Monica, CA., 1982.
"Adjusting to Economic Change," with R. Lawrence, L. Krause, R. Meyer, in Economic Choices 1984, edited by Alice Rivlin, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., 1984.
"Government Research for Commercializing Space," with Roger Noll, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May, 1986
"Economics, Politics, and Government Research and Development," with Roger Noll, in Technology and Politics, ed. by Michael Kraft and Norman Vig, Duke University Press, 1988.
"The Political Economy of NASA's Applications Technology Satellite Program," with Roger Noll, in Proceedings of a Symposium on Space Communications Research and Development, Space Applications Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C.: 1988.
"Federal Policies for Communications Research and Development," in New Directions in Telecommunications Policy, Vol. 2, edited by Paula R. Newberg, Duke University Press, 1989.
"Energy Research and Development. Problems and Proposals," Opportunities for Energy Research and Development, conference proceedings, General Accounting Office, 1990.
"How to Vote, Whether to Vote: Strategies for Voting and Abstaining on Congressional Roll Calls," with Roger Noll, Political Behavior, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1991.
"The National Aerospace Plane: An American Technological Long Shot, Japanese Style," with Susan Edelman and Roger Noll, American Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 2, May 1991.
"Term Limits," with Matthew Spitzer, Georgetown Law Review, February, 1992.
reprinted in Public Choice and Public Law: Readings and Commentary, Maxwell L. Stearns, Anderson Publishing Co., 1997.
"Research and Development," with Roger G. Noll, in Setting Domestic Priorities: What Can Government Do? edited by Henry J. Aaron and Charles L. Schultze, The Brookings Institution, 1992.
"The Politics of Nuclear Power in Japan and the United States," with Mathew McCubbins and Frances Rosenbluth, in Comparative Politics in the United States and Japan, edited by Peter Cowhey and Mathew McCubbins, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995.
"Solving The Chevron Puzzle," with Matthew Spitzer, Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 57, No. 2; Winter & Spring, 1994.
"Appraising Transportation Research," with Gordon J. Fielding, James F. Nolan, and George C. Smith, Transportation Research Record, 1995.
Reprinted in Transportation Research Circular, No. 426, May, 1994.
"When Can Government Subsidize Research Joint Ventures? Politics, Economics, and Limits to Technology Policy," American Economic Review, Vol 84, No. 2, May, 1994.
Reprinted in Industrial Policy and Competitive Advantage, edited by David B. Audretsch, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (series editor: Mark Blaug), Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, Cheltenham, UK, forthcoming.
"Privatizing Public Research," with Roger G. Noll, Scientific American, September, 1994.
Reprinted in Leading Economic Controversies of 1996, edited by Edwin Mansfield, W.W. Norton, 1995.
"An Assessment of New Directions in R&D Policy," with Roger G. Noll, in The Mosaic of Economic Growth, edited by Ralph Landau and Gavin Wright, Stanford University Press, 1996.
"Term Limits and Representation," with Matthew L. Spitzer, in Legislative Term Limits: Public Choice Perspectives, edited by Bernard Grofman, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.
"Feasibility of Effective Public-Private R&D Collaboration: The Case of Cooperative R&D Agreements," with Roger Noll, International Journal of Economics and Business, v. 2, no. 2, 1995: 223-240.
"Judicial Deference to Agency Action: A Rational Choice Theory and an Empirical Test," with Matthew L. Spitzer, Southern California Law Review, vol. 69 no. 2, January, 1996.
"The Future of the National Laboratories," with Roger Noll, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 93 (23), Nov. 12, 1996: 12678-12685.
"Terms of Office, Legislative Structure, and Collective Incentives," in Constitutional Reform in California: Making State Government More Effective and Responsive, edited by Bruce Cain and Roger Noll, IGS Press, U.C. Berkeley, 1995.
"Research and Development After the Cold War," with Roger Noll, in Commercializing High Technology: East and West. Selected Conference Papers, edited by Judith B. Sedaitis, Center of International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University, January 1996. Republished by Rowman and Littlefield Press, forthcoming.
"Soft Money, Hard Choices: Research Universities and University Hospitals," in Challenges to Research Universities, edited by Roger Noll, The Brookings Institution, 1998.
"Universities, Constituencies and the Role of the States," with Roger Noll in Challenges to Research Universities, edited by Roger Noll, The Brookings Institution, 1998.
"The Technology Reinvestment Program," in Investing in Innovation, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and James Keller, MIT Press, 1998.
"Biomedical Research and the Decline of the Medical Services Subsidy at Medical Schools," 1998 AAAS Science and Technology Yearbook, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1998.
"The Government Litigant Advantage: Implications for the Law," with Matthew Spitzer, Florida State University Law Review Vol 28: 391, 2000.
"Is U.S. Science Policy at Risk? Trends in federal support for R&D," with Roger Noll, The Brookings Review, Vol 19, No. 1, Winter 2001.
"Intellectual Property, Antitrust and the New Economy," with Roger Noll, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Vol 62 (3): 453, Spring 2001.
Reports
Human Factors Research and Nuclear Safety, with N. Moray, R. Dynes, H. Estrada, C. George, P. Haas, L. Hirschhorn, B. Huey, J. Keen, T. LaPorte, J. Rasmussen, R. Shikiar, J. Smith, D. Wood, T. Sheridan, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1988.
New Technology Research: Costs and Benefits, with Gordon J. Fielding, prepared for California Department of Transportation, Division of New Technology, Materials and Research, Caltrans, June, 1993.
California Science and Technology Indicators, prepared for the California Council for Science and Technology, February, 1999.
Making IT Better: Expanding Information Technology Research to Meet Society’s Needs, with coauthors, Report of the Committee on Information Technology: Research in a Competitive World, National Academy Press, 2000.
Energy Research at DOE: Was It Worth It?, with coauthors, Report of the Committee on Benefits of DOE R&D on Energy Efficiency and Fossil Energy, National Academy Press, 2001.
Book Reviews; Comments
Book review of The Competitive Economics of Nuclear and Coal Power by Richard Hellman and Caroline C. Hellman, Natural Resources Journal, vol. 23, July, 1983.
Comment on "Private Contracting versus Public Regulation as a Solution to the Natural Monopoly Problem," by Thomas Hazlett, in Unnatural Monopolies: The Case for Deregulating Public Utilities, edited by Robert W. Poole, Jr., D.C. Heath and Company, 1985.
Book review of Controlling the Atom by George T. Mazuzan and J. Samuel Walker, Science, vol. 228, 4701, May 17, 1985.
Comment on McNollgast, Southern California Law Review, vol 69 no. 1, 1996.