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 Phone: 314.935.4535 E-mail: benham@wueconc.wustl.edu Web Site: http://economics.wustl.edu/faculty/faculty.php?id=9 Mailing Address: Professor Lee Benham Economics, Box 1208 Washington University One Brookings Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63130 |
Professor Lee Benham "I know Ken Gartrell as an intellectual arbitrageur. He is deeply curious about the role of different rules of the game in the economic and legal spheres, and he is active in the leading academic organizations concerned with institutions: the International Society for New Institutional Economics and the Ronald Coase Institute. To the academic settings he brings a wealth of business, legal, accounting, and consulting experience. His research ideas on how the institutional features of professional organizations, the judiciary, laws, regulations, and technology interact in areas like intellectual property are interesting and important. This combination of on-the-ground experience, a deep knowledge about how the system is currently working, and knowledge of the leading edge of scholarly work is extremely rare. I always find his comments illuminating." Professor Lee Benham is Director of Undergraduate Studies at Washington University. He is also affiliated with the Ronald Coase Institute which strives to better understand how real economic systems work, so that individuals and societies have greater opportunities to improve their well-being. Prior to joining Washington University in 1974, he was on the faculty at the University of Chicago. His area of concentration is industrial organization, and his current interests focus on the determinants and consequences of costs of exchange across countries. He is also interested in how governance procedures within organizations affect efficiency. His article ``Voting in Firms: The Role of Agenda Control, Size and Voter Homogeneity,'' Economic Inquiry, 1991, co-authored with a graduate student, Philip Keefer, focuses on producer cooperatives. He has also published in the Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics and Journal of Law and Economics. He teaches comparative systems, industrial organization, a special introductory research seminar, and the annual senior honors seminar. |
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