B.A. in Economics from the University of Montana in 1968. M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania, 1969 and 1976.
Awards
Distinguished Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara; Erskine Professor, Canterbury University, New Zealand (2019); Pitt Professor, American History and Institutions, Cambridge University (2010-11); Fellow, Cliometrics Society (2016- ); President of the Economic History Association (2006); President of the Western Economics Association International (2005); President of the International Society for the New Institutional Economics (Society for Organizational and Institutional Economics (2004).
Scientific career
Fields
Economic history, Natural Resources, Property Rights and Regulation
Institutions
Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research; Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy, Harvard University;Senior Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center, Bozeman.
Doctoral advisor
[Oliver Williamson, Richard Easterlin
Other academic advisors
Joseph D. Reid, Jr., Douglass C. North
Doctoral students
Joe Bial, Zeynep Hansen, Trevor O Grady, Dan Szmurlo, Brian Leonard, Eric Edwards, Andrew Ayres, Zack Donohew
Gary Don Libecap (born 1946) is a Distinguished Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara.[1] Libecap is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; a senior fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center, and a member of the Research Group on Political Institutions and Economic Policy, Harvard University.[2][3] He was the Erskine Professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2019; Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions at Cambridge University 2010–11, and was previously the Anheuser Busch Professor of Entrepreneurial Studies, Economics, and Law at the University of Arizona.[4]
Libecap's research focuses on the role of property rights institutions in addressing the open access losses for natural resources such as fisheries and freshwater, as well as the role of water markets in encouraging efficient use and allocation.[3] Libecap has authored or coauthored over 200 scholarly papers in peer-reviewed journals, has lectured widely, and written articles that have appeared in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.[2][5][6]
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^ ab"Gary Libecap | PERC – The Property and Environment Research Center". www.perc.org. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
^ ab"Gary D. Libecap". Hoover Institution. 2017. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
^"Gary Libecap's home page". www.u.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
^"Will Trump Find the E.P.A. Isn't Just for Tree Huggers?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
^Glennon, Robert; Libecap, Gary (2014-10-23). "The West Needs a Water Market to Fight Drought". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
Gary Don Libecap (born 1946) is a Distinguished Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Distinguished Professor of Economics...
Dellapenna, Peter Gleick, Robert Glennon, Clay J. Landry, Lewis H. Lapham, GaryLibecap, Pat Mulroy, Rodney Smith, Kimberly Strassel, Barton H."Buzz" Thompson...
human capital, which in turn facilitated the divergence. According to GaryLibecap, differences in land ownership patterns explain much of the different...
almost completely diverting the water inflows away from Owens Lake. GaryLibecap of the University of California, Santa Barbara, observed that the price...
as Rolle and Libecap, argue that Los Angeles paid an unfairly low price to the farmers of Owens Valley for their land.: 504 GaryLibecap of the University...
members, fellows and alumni include Henry N. Butler, Jonathan H. Adler, GaryLibecap, Bart Wilson, Jane S. Shaw and Bruce Yandle. PERC engages in research...
Thornton 2008–09 James T. Kloppenberg 2009–10 Nancy A. Hewitt 2010–11 GaryLibecap 2011–12 Alan Brinkley 2012–13 Jeffrey C. Alexander 2013–14 David Blight...
Barzel 2003 Clive Granger* 2004 Janet Yellen 2005 Robert Barro 2006 GaryLibecap 2007 James Heckman* 2008 Paul Milgrom* 2009 Michael D. Intriligator 2010...
Revisited: A Reassessment of the West's First Great Water Transfer (2007) by GaryLibecap, ISBN 978-0-8047-5379-1. Crow's Range: An Environmental History Of The...
Food Regulation." Journal of Economic History 63#4 (2003): 1103–1130. Libecap, Gary D. "The rise of the Chicago packers and the origins of meat inspection...
63: 149–159. doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.01.006. ISSN 0264-8377. Libecap, Gary D. (1978). "Economic Variables and the Development of the Law: The Case...
Chicago Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-226-30112-9. Goldin, Claudia Dale and Gary D. Libecap. Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy. Chicago:...
[permanent dead link], a 2006 Bureau of Land Management presentation Libecap, Gary D.; Hansen, Zeynep K. (September 1, 2001). "U.S. Land Policy, Property...
and Paradox of Civil Service Reform, (1992 Johnson, Ronald N., and Gary D. Libecap. The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy: The...
availability. Also in this issue of The American Economic Review, economist Gary D. Libecap noted that Coman's work continued to be relevant, particularly for...
international relations professor Edward Lazear, economist (Deceased) Gary D. Libecap, Bren Professor of Corporate Environmental Policy and of Donald R....
Information Security Oversight Office, 1990. Johnson, Ronald N. and Libecap, Gary D. The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy:...
ISSN 0016-7428. S2CID 234133066. Wilkman, Jon (2016). "Floodpath". pp. 72–75. Libecap, Gary D. (October 1, 2009). "Chinatown Revisited: Owens Valley and Los Angeles—Bargaining...
administrative agreements. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. ISBN 9780275977566. Libecap, Gary D. (1989). "The Political Economy of Crude Oil Cartelization in the...
Archived from the original on October 13, 2011. Retrieved August 28, 2013. Libecap, Gary D.; Hansen, Zeynep Kocabiyik (March 2002). ""Rain Follows the Plow"...
Historical Approach to Political Economy, edited by Claudia Golden and Gary D. Libecap, Chicago: University of Chicago Press" (PDF), Journal of Comparative...
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