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David E. Kaun Home  Directory David E. Kaun
| Education History | |
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Ph.D., Stanford University |
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Economics of art and culture, political economy of capitalism, labor and defense economics. |
| Long Description | |
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David Kaun was affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh and the Brookings Institution before coming to UCSC in 1966. His major research interests have been in the areas of the quality of work and higher education, the ideological basis underlying economic paradigms, military defense procurement and defense industry contractor behavior, and an analysis of the impact of conservative "think tanks" on public policy. His present interests are in the area of cultural (arts) economics. |
| Selected Publications | |
"Attitudes Toward Inequality: Racism and other Varieties of American Exceptionalism," Journal of Socio-Economics, forthcoming (2007).
"Income and Happiness: earning and spending as sources of discontent," Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 34, 2005
"What does economic freedom buy?," Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 31, 2002.
"The Power of Babel," Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 28 Number 4, 1999.
"Lying as Standard Operating Procedure: Deception in the Weapons Testing Process," Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 23, Number 3, 1994.
"Why Writers Die Young," Journal of Economic Psychology, June 1991.
RU$$IA: A Novel; Fithian Press, Santa Barbara, 1995.
Super Patriots in America: A Century of Growing Influence; Hollowbrook Publishers, Durango Colorado, 1995. |
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