Anderson-Bascom Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics
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Research Interests
My primary research area concerns the process of immiserization in sub-Saharan Africa. I am working with various indices of immiserization that track the progress of approximately 40 countries in sub-Saharan Africa since the early 1960s. Preliminary results indicate increasing immiserization, and a failure of changes in per capita GDP to correlate with any plausible indicator of growing misery as measured by a set of indicators. With most development assistance programs focusing attention on economic growth and poverty reduction, it is curious to find that growth histories since the 1960s fail to bear much relation at all to whether or not countries have been able to address growing immiserization. Growth seems to be neither necessary nor sufficient to mitigate misery.
My second research interest concerns U.S. commercial fisheries policy and management. The issues here concern seriously depleted fish stocks, the economic pressure for greater harvests, and the policy dilemmas that emerge from this inevitable conflict between stochastic natural processes and regularized industrial-scale exploitation that is now the norm. We have constructed a bio-economic model of a fishery and have linked that to a simulation model in which different pricing regimes for entry to the fishery can be modeled for their effects on fishing effort, harvests, stock response, and income to the industry. This model will be part of a general assessment of the recent efforts to buy back fishing permits and vessels to reduce harvesting capacity.
Recent Publications
- Daniel W. Bromley "Property Rights: Locke, Kant, Peirce, and the Logic of Volitional Pragmatism." in Harvey M. Jacobs,, ed. Property Rights in the 21st Century. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Elgar, 2004,
- Daniel W. Bromley "Reconsidering Environmental Policy: Prescriptive Consequentialism and Volitional Pragmatism" Environmental and Resource Economics 28(2004)
- Daniel W. Bromley "Sustainable Development of Institutional and Infrastructure Capital." in United Nations, ed. Encyclopediea of Life Support Systems. London: Routledge, 2004,
- Daniel W. Bromley "Property Rights and the Urgent Challenge of Environmental Sustainability." in Sisay Asefa, ed. The Economics of Sustainable Development. Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2005, pp.133-151.
- J.-P. Chavas and Daniel W. Bromley "Modeling Population and Resource Scarcity in Fourteenth Century England" Journal of Agricultural Economics 56(2005)
- Daniel W. Bromley "“Land-Use Policy as Volitional Pragmatism”" Agricultural and Resource Economics 32(2003)
- Daniel W. Bromley "Legal Issues and Incentives for Sustainability." in United Nations, ed. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. London: Routledge, 2004,
- . ed. 2002. Oxford: Blackwell..
- Juha Heidanpaa and Daniel W. Bromley "“Environmental Policy as a Process of Reasonable Valuing”." in Daniel W. Bromley/Jouni Paavola, ed. Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy: Contested Choices. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, pp.69-84.
- Seth Macinko and Daniel W. Bromley "Property and Fisheries for the Twenty-First Century: Seeking Coherence From Legal and Economic Doctrine" Vermont Law Review 28(2004)
- Daniel W. Bromley "Property Rights and Development." in David. A. Clark, ed. The Elgar Companion to Development Studies. U.K.: Elgar, 2006, pp.479-483.
- Daniel W. Bromley "Sustainability." The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics.
- Daniel W. Bromley "Property Rights and Land in Ex-Socialist States." in Peter Ho, ed. Development Dilemmas: Land Reform and Institutional Change in China. London : Routledge, 2005, pp.35-61.
- Daniel W. Bromley "Property Rights and Land Use Conflicts: Reconciling Myth and Reality." in Robert J. Johnston & Stephen K. Swallow, eds., ed. Economics and Contemporary Land Use Policy. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2006, pp.38-54.
- Daniel W. Bromley and Yang Yao "Understanding China's Economic Transformation: Are There Lessons Here for the Developing World?" World Economics 7(April-June 2006)
- Daniel W. Bromley "Purging the Frontier From Our Mind: Crafting a New Fisheries Policy" Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 15(2005)
- Daniel W. Bromley. Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006.
- Daniel W. Bromley "Revitalizing Institutional Economics: Can We Get There from Here? Review of "The Evolution of Institutional Economics" by Geoffrey Hodgson." in Warren Samuels, Jeff Biddle, and Ross Emmett, ed. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. London: Routledge, 2005,
- Daniel W. Bromley "The Economics of Whaling." in James A. Estes, Douglas P. DeMaster, Daniel F. Doak, Terrie M. Williams, and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. , ed. Whales, Whaling, and Ocean Ecosystems. Berkeley: University of California , 2006,
- . ed. 1995. Oxford: Blackwell.
- . ed. 1992. San Francisco, CA: ICS Press.
- Bromley, Daniel W. and Yang Yao "Understanding China's Economic Transformation: Are There Lessons Here for the Developing World?" World Economics 7(April-June 2006)
- Bromley, Daniel W. "Formalizing Property Relations in the Developing World: The Wrong Prescription for the Wrong Malady." Land Use Policy.
- Bromley, Daniel W. "Resource Degradation in the African Commons: Accounting for Institutional Decay" Environment and Development Economics (2008)
- Bromley, Daniel W. "Environmental Regulations and the Problem of Sustainability: Moving Beyond "Market Failure"" Ecological Economics 63(2007)
- Daniel W. Bromley "Environmental Regulations and the Problem of Sustainability: Moving Beyond "Market Failure"." Ecological Economics.
- Bromley, Daniel W. "Formalising Property Relations in the Developing World: The Wrong Prescription for the Wrong Malady" Land Use Policy 26(2008)
- Bromley, Daniel W. "Volitional Pragmatism" Ecological Economics 68(2008)
- Bromley, Daniel W. "The Crisis in Ocean Governance: Conceptual Confusion, Spurious Economics, Political Indifference" MAST: Maritime Studies 6(2008)
- Bromley, Daniel W. "Beyond Market Failure: Volitional Pragmatism as a New Theory of Public Policy" Economia Politica 25(2008)
- Chavas, Jean-Paul and Daniel W. Bromley "On the Origins and Evolving Role of Money" Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 164(2008)
- Bromley, Daniel W. "Economic Institutions and Governance of the Commons." in , ed. Environment, Inequality, and Collective Action. London: Routledge, 2006,
Education
Ph.D., Natural Resource Economics, Oregon State University, 1969.
M.S., Natural Resource Economics, Oregon State University 1967.
B.S., Range Ecology, Utah State University, 1963
Forestry, Northern Arizona University