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Dr. John Tomer

Dr. John Tomer

Dr. John Tomer

Professor of Economics

Education:

  • BS Rutgers University 1964 Industrial Engineering
  • Ph.D. Rutgers University 1973 Economics

Contact Information:

Courses Taught/Teaching

  • ECON 201 Principles & Policies I: Macroeconomics
  • ECON 202 Principles & Policies II: Microeconomics
  • ECON 333 Public Finance
  • ECON 421 The Japanese Economy

These courses may not reflect what is being taught this semester. For current information visit the course catalog online.

 

Recent Refereed Journal Articles:

“Beyond the Rationality of Economic Man, Toward the True Rationality of Human Man” forthcoming Journal of Socio-Economics.

“Why We Need a Commitment Approach to Environmental Policy,” Ecological Economics, 62(3-4), May, 2007.

"What is Behavioral Economics?" Journal of Socio-Economics, 36(3), June, 2007.

“Organizational Capital and Personal Capital: The Role of Intangible Capital Formation in the Economy” in Altman, Morris. (Editor) Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics; Foundations and Developments. M.E. Sharpe, 2006.

“Understanding Human Welfare,” Indicators, 2(3), Summer, 2003, pp. 105-129.

“Personal Capital and Emotional Intelligence: Increasingly Important Intangible Sources of Economic Growth,” Eastern Economic Journal, 29(3), Summer 2003, pp. 453-470.

“Intangible Factors in the Eastern EuropeanTransition: A Socio-Economic Analysis,” Post-Communist Economies, Vol. 14, No. 4, December 2002, pp. 421-444.

“The Firm is Human: It is Not a Neoclassical Machine,” Indicators, Vol. 1, No. 3, Summer 2002, pp. 101-115.

Human Well-being: A New Approach Based on Overall and Ordinary Functionings,” Review of Social Economy, 60(1), March 2002, pp. 23-45.

“Economic man vs. heterdox men: the concepts of human nature in schools of economic thought,” Journal of Socio-Economics, vol. 30,  No. 4, 2001, pp. 281-293.

“Addictions are not rational: a socio-economic model of addictive behavior,” Journal of Socio-Economics, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2001, pp. 243-261.

“Understanding high performance work systems: the joint contribution of economics and human resource management,” Journal of Socio-Economics, 30 (2001), pp. 63-73.

 

Books:

Organizational Capital: The Path to Higher Productivity and Well-being. Praeger Publishing Co., 1987.

The Human Firm: A Socio-Economic Analysis of Its Behavior and Potential in a New Economic Age. Routledge Publishing Co., 1999.

Intangible Capital: Its Contribution to Economic Growth, Well-Being, and Rationality. Edward Elgar Publishing Co., 2008.

 

Homepage:

http://home.manhattan.edu/~john.tomer/