DOUGLAS BLAIR
DOUGLAS BLAIR, Professor, received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught previously at the University of Pennsylvania. From 2003 to 2006 Blair served as Executive Vice Dean of
the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He served earlier as Dean of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, Chair of the Department of Economics, and Director of the Bureau of Economic Research. Blair's research interests
include social choice theory and formal models of political institutions and behavior. His publications include "Impossibility Theorems Without Collective Rationality," Journal of Economic Theory, 1976 (with G.
Bordes, J. Kelly, and K. Suzumura); "Electoral College Reform and the Distribution of Voting Power," Public Choice, 1979; "On the Ubiquity of Strategic Voting Opportunities," International Economic
Review, 1981; "Acyclic Collective Choice Rules," Econometrica, 1982 (with R. Pollak); "Labor Union Objectives and Collective Bargaining," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1984 (with D. Crawford); "The
Primary Goods Indexation Problem in Rawls's Theory of Justice," Theory and Decision, 1988; "Unbundling the Voting Rights and Profit Claims of Common Shares," Journal of Political Economy, 1989 (with J.
Gerard and D. Golbe); and "Subjective Evaluations of n Person Games," Journal of Economic Theory, 1990 (with R. McLean). Blair is a recipient of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Award for Distinguished
Contributors to Undergraduate Education.
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