Paul Courant
{{short description|American economist}}
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Paul N. Courant (born January 5, 1948) is an American economist who is an expert in public goods. His recent research focuses on the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the impact of new information technologies on the scholarly publishing system.
Education
Courant received his BA in history from Swarthmore College in 1968; an MA in economics from Princeton University in 1973; and a PhD in economics from Princeton University in 1974.
Career
Before attending graduate school, Courant served as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution. After receiving his PhD, he joined the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he has remained. In 1979 and 1980 he was a Senior Staff Economist at the Council of Economic Advisers. From 2002 to 2005 he served as Provost and Executive Vice-president for Academic Affairs, the chief academic officer and the chief budget officer of the university. While Provost, he negotiated a contract with Google to allow them to digitize the entire contents of Michigan's library for their Google Books Library Project now known as Google Books. He has also served as the Associate Provost for Academic and Budgetary Affairs, Chair of the Department of Economics and Director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). He served as the University Librarian and Dean of Libraries from 2007 to 2013.
Courant is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Economics, Professor of Information, and Faculty Associate in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Courant has authored half a dozen books and over seventy papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems.
Boards
- ARTstor Board of Trustees [http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-110223-courant.shtml/ ARTstor] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219195502/http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-110223-courant.shtml |date=2012-02-19 }}
- Center for Research Libraries Board of Directors [http://www.crl.edu/about/governance/board-directors/ Center for Research Libraries]
- Council on Library and Information Resources Board of Directors [http://www.clir.org/about/governance/ Council on Library and Information Resources]
- Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Board of Directors [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/dpla/board/ Digital Public Library of America]
Comments on the Google Library Project
In November 2007, Courant started a blog in which he defended the University of Michigan's participation in the Google Books Library Project."On Being in Bed with Google", [http://paulcourant.net/2007/11/04/on-being-in-bed-with-google/ Au Courant] His remarks joined an ongoing debate about the project, specifically with regard to the role of libraries in large scale digitization efforts."Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web" by Katie Hafner, [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html?em&ex=1193544000&en=ce927953c53a4745&ei=5087%0A New York Times, October 22, 2007]
Selected bibliography
;Book chapters
- {{citation | last1 = Courant | first1 = Paul N. | last2 = Corcoran | first2 = Mary E. | contribution = Sex-role socialization and occupational segregation: an exploratory investigation | editor-last = Humphries | editor-first = Jane | editor-link = Jane Humphries | title = Gender and economics | pages = [https://archive.org/details/gendereconomics0000unse/page/495 495–511] | publisher = Edward Elgar | location = Aldershot, England Brookfield, Vermont, USA | year = 1995 | isbn = 9781852788438 | postscript = . | url = https://archive.org/details/gendereconomics0000unse/page/495 }}
;Journal articles
- {{Cite journal | last1 = Courant | first1 = Paul N. | last2 = Corcoran | first2 = Mary E. | title = Sex-role socialization and occupational segregation: an exploratory investigation | journal = Journal of Post Keynesian Economics| volume = 9 | issue = 3 | pages = 330–346 | doi = 10.1080/01603477.1987.11489627 | date = March 1987 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.431.6259 }}
Notes and references
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External links
- {{Official website|url=http://fordschool.umich.edu/faculty/Paul_Courant |name=Paul Courant's faculty profile}}
- Paul Courant's blog, [http://paulcourant.net Au Courant]
- Paul Courant's [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pnc/CV14-01.pdf Curriculum Vitae]
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Category:21st-century American economists
Category:20th-century American librarians
Category:Princeton University alumni
Category:Swarthmore College alumni
Category:University of Michigan faculty