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Lester Taylor

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1963; Professor Emeritus of Economics and Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics; Demand Analysis, Econometrics, and Economics of Regulated Industries.

 

 

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Office: Economics, Rm. 322
Phone: (520) 621-6222
email: ltaylor@bpa.arizona.edu

 


Dr. Taylor joined the faculty of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics in 1991. He also has an appointment in the Department of Economics, where he has been Professor since 1972. Prior to Arizona, he held positions at Harvard University and the University of Michigan.

His research interests have centered on consumer demand, econometrics, and the economics of regulated industries. Other interests include capital theory and the interface between psychology and economics. He was a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers in 1964-65 and spent 18 months in 1967-68 with the (then) Harvard Development Advisory service as an advisor to the Ministry of Planning of the Government of Colombia.

Selected Publications

Taylor, Lester D. “Customer Demand Analysis,” in Handbook of Telecommunications and Economics: Sector Characteristics, Regulation and Competition, edited by M. E. Cave, S. J. Majumdar, and I. Vogelsand, Elsevier Science Publishing Co. The Netherlands, 2002.

Taylor, Lester D. “An Econometric Model of the Demand for Access to the Internet by Cable Modem” (with Donald J. Kridel and Paul N. Rappoport), in Forecasting the Internet: Understanding the Explosive Growth of Data Communications, edited by D. G. Loomis and L. D. Taylor, Kluwer Academic Pubishers, 2001.

Taylor, Lester D. Capital, Accumulation, and Money: An Integration of Capital, Growth, and Monetary Theory, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000.

Taylor, Lester D. “Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development.” Economic and Public Policy Issues of the Information Economy. D. Orr and T.A. Wilson, eds. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute, 1999.

Taylor, Lester D. “On Depletion of an Exhausting Natural Resource.” Nonrenewable Natural Resources 7(1998):235-242.

Taylor, Lester D. Telecommunications Demand in Theory and Practice. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.

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