Wallace E. Oates

Wallace E. Oates
BornMarch 21, 1937
DiedOctober 30, 2015
Academic career
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, Princeton University
Alma materStanford

Wallace E. Oates (March 21, 1937 – October 30, 2015) was a Distinguished University Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland.[1]

He taught in the fields of public economics and environmental economics, and was considered a major international figure in both fields.[1] His first book was Fiscal Federalism (1972) and he authored numerous other books and articles, including The Theory of Environmental Policy (1975), coauthored with William J. Baumol. A Festschrift, Environmental and public economics : essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates, was published in his honor in 1999,[2] and an additional volume of his selected essays in 2004.[3] Another Festschrift, The Tiebout Model at fifty : essays in public economics in honor of Wallace Oates was published in his honor in 2006.[4]

He received his Ph.D. in economics at Stanford in 1965 and joined the faculty at Princeton University.[1] He began at the University of Maryland in 1979.[5]

  1. ^ a b c "In Memoriam: Distinguished University Professor Emeritus Wallace Oates". University of Maryland College of Behavioral and Social Sciences. November 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  2. ^ Oates, Wallace E; Panagariya, Arvind; Portney, Paul R; Schwab, Robert M (1 June 1999). Environmental and public economics: essays in honor of Wallace E. Oates. E. Elgar. OCLC 39981198. Retrieved 1 June 2019 – via Open WorldCat.
  3. ^ Oates, Wallace E. Environmental Policy and Fiscal Federalism: Selected Essays of Wallace E. Oates. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Pub, 2004.World Cat item entry
  4. ^ Cambridge, Mass: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2006.
  5. ^ "Wallace Oates's Research". econweb.umd.edu. Archived from the original on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 17 January 2022.