"Luojia Forum---Session 31" will be held in the old library in Cherry Garden at 19:00 on Monday, July 4th, 2011. Professor Elliott Sclar from Columbia University will give a lecture on
The Challenge of Urban Mobility in the 21st Century.
Elliott Sclar’s Bio
Elliot Sclar holds a BA from Hofstra University (1963) and an MA from Tufts University (1966). He earned his PhD at Tufts (1972). Prior to his appointment at Columbia University, he was an assistant professor of urban economics at Brandeis University's Heller School (1972-78).
Professor Sclar was the co-coordinator of the Taskforce on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers. It was one of the ten taskforces set up by the UN Millennium Project to help guide the implementation of the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals. The Taskforce's book length report (2005): A Home in the City , is available on the UN Millennium Project website and from Earthscan.
As a professional economist, Professor Sclar has written extensively about the strengths and limitations of markets as mechanisms for effective public policy implementation. The main focus of this Center will be to work at the nexus that connects the regulatory mechanisms of planning with market-based incentives to create environmentally and economically sustainable urban development. Sclar's book "You Don't Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization," a critique of over reliance on market mechanisms, has won two major academic prizes; the Louis Brownlow Award for the Best Book of 2000 from the National Academy of Public Administration and the 2001 Charles Levine Prize from the International Political Science Association for a major contribution to the public policy literature. It is a definitive work in the field.
