Faye Duchin
Faye Duchin is an American economist and Professor of Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.[1] She worked closely with Wassily Leontief, contributing to the advancement of input-output analysis and its application, and is also active in the field of ecological economics and industrial ecology.
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[edit] Biography
Faye Duchin was raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. She attended Cornell University where she originally studied French, but later graduated with a psychology degree in 1965.[2][3] After graduating she hitchhiked through Europe for a number of years before moving back to the United States to study for her Ph.D. in computer science at UC Berkeley.[2] She graduated with her Ph.D. in 1973, and then worked as an economist, mainly with computer models.[3]
Duchin later joined the 1973 Nobel Laureate in economics, Wassily Leontief, on input-output economics. From 1977–1996, she was a faculty member at New York University,[2] and succeeded Leontief as director of the NYU's Institute for Economic Analysis, a position she held from 1985 to 1996.[4]
In the mid-1990s, assumed the position of Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She resigned that position in 2002 to return to research and teaching.
[edit] Professional affiliations
Duchin served as president of the International Input-Output Association[5] from 2004 to 2006,[6] and is a former Vice President of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE). She is a member of the Editorial Boards of various journals, including the journal of Industrial Ecology, having held this position since the journal's founding in 1997.[6] Duchin is one of the founders and managing editors of the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, and she has authored or co-authored thirty-three publications between 1973 and 2005.[7]
[edit] Scholarly contributions
Duchin is one of the few pioneers who has explored key questions on sustainability from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Her work incorporates technological change, lifestyle change, quality of life, income distribution and consumption, international trade, natural resource use and environmental degradation into input-output models of the economy with the objective of addressing strategic sustainability challenges. Her 1994 book, for example, starts with the question, "Can technology assure environmentally sound economic development?"[8] Throughout her scholarly contributions, Duchin addresses such far-reaching questions based on the quantitative analysis of both extensive empirical data describing the past and alternative scenarios for the future.
Duchin's work is characterized by its emphasis on the future and changes that could make a difference in satisfying major global imperatives.[8] From her early contributions, Duchin's work has consistently been problem-oriented, instead of being discipline or technique-oriented. Her analyses often take a global perspective, while also paying close attention to the details about specific resources and technologies, using process and engineering data, which clearly distinguishes her work from that of other economists. Unlike many other economists, her scholarly interest goes well beyond a concern with prices and money values: she is concerned with the physical realities and constraints behind the monetized economy, a focus which naturally led her to industrial ecology. Duchin has also made key theoretical contributions, including the development of a dynamic input-output model (sometimes called the Leontief-Duchin-Szyld model) and a model of the world economy based on comparative advantage and subject to physical resource constraints.
Duchin's most recent work focuses on the issues of industrial ecology, picking up from her pioneering work in the early 1990s.
[edit] Publications
- 1983: Military Spending: Facts and Figures, Worldwide Implications and Future Outlook with Wassily Leontief[9]
- 1986: The Future Impact of Automation on Workers with Wassily Leontief[10]
- 1994: The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change with Glenn-Marie Lange[8]
- 1998: Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment[11]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ "Faye Duchin, Professor of Economics". Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://www.rpi.edu/~duchin/. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
- ^ a b c Lutzky, Raymond (2001-11-14). "Dean Duchin has varied background". The Polytechnic. http://poly.rpi.edu/article_view.php3?view=1041&part=1. Retrieved 2009-01-06.[dead link]
- ^ a b "People - Department of Economics". Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://www.economics.rpi.edu/index.php?siteid=18&pageid=199&personID=91. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ "CV". Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://www.rpi.edu/~duchin/cv.html. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
- ^ "Who we are". International Input-Output Association. http://www.iioa.org/Who%20we%20are-offices.htm. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
- ^ a b Duchin, Faye. "Activities". Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://www.rpi.edu/~duchin/activities.html. Retrieved 2009-01-18.
- ^ "Scientific Commons: Faye Duchin". ScientificCommons.org. http://en.scientificcommons.org/faye_duchin. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
- ^ a b c "Amazon.com: The Future of the Environment: Ecological Economics and Technological Change: Faye Duchin, Glenn-Marie Lange: Books". Amazon.com, Inc. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195085744/. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
- ^ "Publications". Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. http://www.rpi.edu/~duchin/publications.html. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
- ^ "Amazon.com: The Future Impact of Automation on Workers: Wassily Leontief, Faye Duchin: Books". Amazon.com, Inc. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0195036239/. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
- ^ "Amazon.com: Structural Economics: Measuring Change in Technology, Lifestyles, and the Environment: Faye Duchin: Books". Amazon.com, Inc. http://www.amazon.com/dp/1559636068/. Retrieved 2008-11-04.
