RICHARD R. CORNWALL
Address
email: dick@queerinsurgency.net
Current activity
1998-present: research on queering political economy
Previous positions
1997-2003: Editorial Board, Review of Radical Political Economics
January, 2002 - March 2004: Visiting Professor, Economics Department, University of California, Davis
1998-present: Professor Emeritus of Economics,
Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
1978-1998: Associate, then full Professor of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
1994-95: Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, University of California,
Berkeley
1989-91: Visiting Scholar, Program in Occupational Safety and Health, Harvard
School of Public Health
1972-78: Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis
1967-72: Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Special Recognition
Distinguished Teaching Award of the Western Economic Association, June
1974
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Davis, November
1975
Education
1968 Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, Berkeley
1962-63 Magdalen College, Oxford University (Fulbright Fellowship)
1962 A.B. in Economics, Princeton University (summa cum laude, phi beta
kappa)
Writing
"What gives currency currency ?: Towards a lingual basis for political
economy."
"(non)existence of rational expectations equilibrium in an economy with language(s):
proofs and simulations of the complexity of endogenous preferences and rationality."
"institutional homophobia of discursive inertia: a queerly theoretic
case study." (forthcoming).
"Rethinking Marxism queerly: getting past nostalgia for class analysis."
"economic theory and GLBT-Queer culture" in David A. Gerstner (ed.) International Encyclopedia Of Queer Culture:
Gay, Lesbian and Transexual Contemporary Cultures. 2004. London: Routledge.
"L'héritage et la fécondité des travaux de Michel Foucault dans
l'économie politique."
Letter disseminated as part of the conference, " Foucault throughout the world,"
held at Université Laval, Québec, Canada, 17-18 May 2000.
"Reflections on Lynn Turgeon's Other Role as an Economist: Critiquing Liberal Silence
about Sexual Orientations." Union for Radical Political Economics Newsletter.
30 (4) [Summer 1999] 14-15.
"Sexual orientation." written jointly with M. V. Lee Badgett, pp. 670-681 in
Janice Peterson and Margaret Lewis (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics.
1999. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.
"a primer on queer theory for economists interested in social identities."
Feminist Economics 4 (2) [Summer 1998] 73-82.
"deconstructing silence: the queer political economy of the social articulation of desire."
Review of Radical Political Economics 29 (1) [March 1997] 1-130.
"Incorporating Social Identities into Economic Theory: How Economics
Can Come Out of its Closet." ch. 36. pp. 477-501 in Martin Duberman
(ed) A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.
1997. New York: New York University Press.
"queer political economy: the social articulation of desire."
ch. 8, pp. 89-122 in Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed. (eds.) Homo Economics:
Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life. 1997. New York: Routledge.
"Looking the other way" - a review of Tomas Philipson and Richard
A. Posner's Private Choices and Public Health: The AIDS Epidemic in an
Economic Perspective. (Harvard University Press, 1994) pp. 39-41 in
Dollars and Sense. November/December, 1993.
New Approaches to Economic and Social Analyses of Discrimination.
jointly edited with Phanindra Wunnava. 1991. New York: Praeger.
"Can Employers Ignore Workplace Hazards as Unemployment Rises?"
joint paper with Jonathan Mowry, [1990] Working Paper 90-8, Middlebury College.
"Political economy of the firm: strengths and weaknesses of the transaction-cost
approach," [1988] Working Paper 88-8, Middlebury College.
Review in the Eastern Economic Journal. 11 (2) [April-June, 1985]
185 of The Entrepreneur by Robert F. Hébert and Albert N.
Link.
Introduction to the Use of General Equilibrium Analysis. 1984. Amsterdam:
North-Holland Publishing Company.
"New Instruments to finance worker-cooperatives," mimeographed
[1983] Department of Economics, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont.
An Incomes Policy for the United States: New Approaches. (edited
with M. P. Claudon) 1981. Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishing Company.
"Marketing costs and imperfect competition in general equilibrium,"
chapter in G. Schwödiauer (ed.) Equilibrium and Disequilibrium in
Economic Theory. [1978] Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Company.
"The concept of general equilibrium in a market economy with imperfectly
competitive producers," Metroeconomica. 29. 1977. 55-72.
"A note on using profit functions to aggregate production functions,"
International Economic Review. 14. June 1973. 511-519.
"Conditions for the graph and the integral of a correspondence to be
open," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 39,
3. September 1972. 771-792.
"Convexity and continuity properties of preference functions,"
Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie. 30 [1970] 35-52.
"The use of prices to characterize the core of an economy," Journal
of Economic Theory. 1 (4) [1969] 353-373.
Queer Intensities - poetics of gaymen's rage/joy (Available on this site)
"Edward II, a review," Out In The Mountains, September, 1992.
"What is Family? A Review of My Own Private Idaho," Out In The
Mountains , March, 1992.
"Throwing Shade: a review of 'Paris Is Burning,'" Out In The Mountains
, February, 1992.
"Queer Daddies," Out In The Mountains , January, 1992.
"The Roots of Gay Bashing - a political economist comments on the history
of attacks on gay men and lesbians in Vermont," Vanguard Press April
26, 1990.
"Hate in Vermont: Help Needed," commentary in the Rutland Daily
Herald, March 15, 1990, p. 19.
"Education for a VT Queen" Out In The Mountains, January, 1990.
"Gay-Straight Dialogue: May Sarton's The Education of Harriet Hatfield
helps us bridge the chasm in Vermont" Section 8, January 1990.
"Sexual harassment, sexism and homophobia" Middlebury Campus November
17, 1989.
"May Day, 1886, Worth Recalling" - Vermont Perspective in Burlington
Free Press, May 1, 1987.
"There's No Justice for Vermont Gays" - Vermont Perspective in
Burlington Free Press, December 1, 1985.
Academic presentations
"rethinking marxism queerly: seven queries about the social articulation
of desire, false consciousness, hegemony of class-based theorizing, and
hypostatizing centralism," parts of which were presented at two sessions
at the conference entitled: Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism,
7 December 1996 University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
"Incorporating social identities into economic theory: how economics
can come out of its closet of individualism," presented at "Homo
/ Economics: the CLAGS Conference on the Economy of the Lesbian and Gay
Community," 7 May 1994, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, The Graduate
School and University Center, The City University of New York.
"Gender, the Family and Economic Justice: A Roundtable Discussion,"
presented by URPE and AEA at ASSA, 4 Janauary 1994 in Boston, Massachusetts.
"The construction of queer economics: markets and theory as social
amplifiers," presented at the workshop in political economy, University
of Massachusetts, November 3, 1992.
"Notes on a research agenda for economists inspired by the Coming Out
of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Communities: The Role of Markets in the Social
Construction of Identities," presented at the 1992 Allied Social Science
Association session entitled "The Economics of Sexual Orientation:
Establishing a Research Agenda," January 3, 1992 in New Orleans, LA.
Extended summary and review given in "The economics of sexual orientation:
establishing a research agenda" by M. V. Lee Badgett and Rhonda Williams,
pp. 649-657 in Feminist Studies 18, 3 [Fall 1992].
"Can Employers Ignore Workplace Hazards as Unemployment Rises?"
joint paper with Jonathan Mowry presented at the annual meetings of the
ASSA, December, 1990 in Washington, D.C.
"Political economy of the firm: strengths and weaknesses of the transaction-cost
approach," presented at the annual meetings of the Allied Social Science
Associations, Dec 28-30, 1987 in Chicago, Illinois.
"What is oppression? An approach based on the governance of transactions,"
presented at the summer conference of the Union for Radical Political Economics,
August, 1987 in Massachusetts.
"An evaluation of the transaction-cost approach to analyzing the organization
of capital and labor within a firm," presented at the annual meetings
of the Eastern Economic Association, March 5-7, 1987 in Washington, D.C.
"Rent-seeking, entrepreneurship and cooperative institutions,"
Fifth Annual Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues, April 21-21,
1983.
"Comparison of two solution concepts in game theory: the core and N-M
solutions," MSSB Conference, 1972, The Rand Corp., Santa Monica, CA.
"The closedness of the core correspondence," Second World Congress
of the Econometric Society, Cambridge, England [1970] (abstract in Econometrica
39 [1971] 157).
Other presentations
"Testimony to the Vermont Senate Judiciary Committee on Hate Crimes
Legislation H-504," April 19, 1990.
"Testimony on Hate Crimes Legislation H-504", Vermont House Judiciary
Committee, February 1, 1990.
"Testimony on Hate Crimes" for the Vermont Human Rights Commission,
November 13, 1989
"Testimony for the Vermont House Judiciary Committee on H-211 to prohibit
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation," April 11, 1989.
"Testimony for the Vermont House Judiciary Committee on H-247 to prohibit
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation," March 10, 1987
"Employee cooperative corporations," testimony before the Vermont
Senate Finance Committee, March 10, 1983
Organizational Work
1992-93: Drafted and successfully guided through all levels of Administration
and Trustees at Middlebury College a proposal for amending College's employee policies to treat
domestic partners equivalently to spouses including summary of policies
adopted elsewhere and comprehensive proposal to revise Middlebury's policies.
1991: Drafted and successfully guided through all levels of Administration
and Trustees at Middlebury College a proposal for amending College's Nondiscrimination Statement
to include sexual orientation.
1985-86, 1987-89, 1991-92: Chairperson of Department of Economics
Accomplishments:
- New positions in Soviet-type economics, environmental studies, international
business and coordination with Department of Political Science on position
in Japanese Political Economy.
Initiation of working paper series.
Improved intermediate theory and econometric courses and thesis program.
1985-86, 1987-89: Chairperson of Human Relations Committee.
Accomplishments:
- Development of new rules and procedures for racial, religious or ethnic
harassment.
Development of Racial Awareness Series including coordination of the College's
celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
Authored and guided through Faculty amendment of sexual harassment policy
to include sexual orientation.
Institution of programs to raise awareness for College personnel on harassment
issues including homophobia, racism, and sexism.
1984-86: Advisor to Gay People at Middlebury
1988-89: Advisor to Middlebury Lesbian Gay Alliance
Accomplishments:
- Rebirth in the face of strong expressions of homophobia among students
and deep fears among gay and lesbian students.
Well attended talk and dinner on March 1989 by David Scondras, City Council
Person from Boston. - a path-breaking event for the College
1996-2000: LGQ Economists List (lgq_economists@panther.middlebury.edu)
This is an email network for lesbigay, transgender and queerly straight
economists.
1990-2000: Organize the Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual Caucus of Economists within the
American Economic Association.
1990-1998: Vermont EPSCoR Small College Development Committee.
1990-1998: Vermont Coalition of Lesbians and Gay Men.
April, 1990: Visiting Team for the Economics Department and the College
at Vassar.
Organization of Conferences
"New Approaches to the Analysis of Discrimination" - This was
organized, jointly with Professor Phanindra V. Wunnava, as the Eleventh
Annual Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues, April 6-8, 1989.
"Efficiency Wage Theory and Capital-Labor Conflicts" - I organized
and chaired this session at the meetings of the Allied Social Science Association,
Dec 28, 1987, Chicago, Illinois.
"Explanations for the Roles of Capital and Labor within a Firm"
- I organized and presented a paper at this session of the meetings of the
Allied Social Science Association, Dec 28, 1987, Chicago, Illinois.
"New Approaches to an Incomes Policy for the United States" -
This was organized, jointly with Professor Michael P. Claudon, as the First
Annual Middlebury College Conference on Economic Issues, April, 1979.
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