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== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Gordon's students included [[Margaret Schabas]],<ref>{{cite book |title=David Hume's Political Economy |isbn=978-1134362509|last1=Schabas|first1=Margaret|last2=Wennerlind|first2=Carl|year=2008}}</ref> Robert Leonard,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Leonard |first1=Robert |title=Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory : from chess to social science, 1900--1960 |isbn=9780511778278 |language=en|doi=10.1017/CBO9780511778278 |year=2010 }}</ref> and [[J. Alfred Broaddus]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Al Broaddus Economic Keynote Speaker |url=https://www.wwsg.com/speakers/al-broaddus/ |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref> In ''Welfare, Property Rights and Economic Policy - Essays and Tributes in Honour of H. Scott Gordon'' by T.K. Rymes the author celebrates Gordon as one of "Canada's most distinguished social scientist and economics scholars."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rymes |first1=T.K |title=Welfare, Property Rights and Economic Policy - Essays and Tributes in Honor of H. Scott Gordon |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/.../FFF74A9B0D845E0BED16E91AFE4ED052 |publisher=Cambridge Press}}</ref> Rymes' book was cited in the ''International Journal of Transport Economics''(1993).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rymes |first1=T. K. |title=Vol. 20, No. 3, OCTOBER 1993 of International Journal of Transport Economics / Rivista internazionale di economia dei trasporti on JSTOR |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40103610 |website=www.jstor.org |accessdate=20 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Gordon was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1964–1965.<ref>{{cite web|title=Howard Scott Gordon|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/howard-scott-gordon/}}</ref> For the period of 1977-1978, Gordon served as President of the [[Canadian Economics Association]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://economics.ca/en/history.php|website=Canadian Economics Association|title=Organizational History, 1967-2018|access-date=2019-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226180923/http://economics.ca/en/history.php|archive-date=2016-02-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> His papers are in an archival repository at Indiana University. John Davis of [[Marquette University]] reviewed ''History of Philosophy of Social Science'' by H.Scott Gordon in the [[Southern Economic Journal]].<ref>Published version. Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 59, No. 4 (April 1993): 835-836. DOI. © 1993
Gordon's students included [[Margaret Schabas]],<ref>{{cite book |title=David Hume's Political Economy |isbn=978-1134362509|last1=Schabas|first1=Margaret|last2=Wennerlind|first2=Carl|year=2008}}</ref> and [[J. Alfred Broaddus]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Al Broaddus Economic Keynote Speaker |url=https://www.wwsg.com/speakers/al-broaddus/ |accessdate=20 June 2019}}</ref> In ''Welfare, Property Rights and Economic Policy - Essays and Tributes in Honour of H. Scott Gordon'' by T.K. Rymes the author celebrates Gordon as one of "Canada's most distinguished social scientist and economics scholars."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rymes |first1=T.K |title=Welfare, Property Rights and Economic Policy - Essays and Tributes in Honor of H. Scott Gordon |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/.../FFF74A9B0D845E0BED16E91AFE4ED052 |publisher=Cambridge Press}}</ref> Rymes' book was cited in the ''International Journal of Transport Economics''(1993).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rymes |first1=T. K. |title=Vol. 20, No. 3, OCTOBER 1993 of International Journal of Transport Economics / Rivista internazionale di economia dei trasporti on JSTOR |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40103610 |website=www.jstor.org |accessdate=20 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> Gordon was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1964–1965.<ref>{{cite web|title=Howard Scott Gordon|website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/howard-scott-gordon/}}</ref> For the period of 1977-1978, Gordon served as President of the [[Canadian Economics Association]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://economics.ca/en/history.php|website=Canadian Economics Association|title=Organizational History, 1967-2018|access-date=2019-06-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226180923/http://economics.ca/en/history.php|archive-date=2016-02-26|url-status=dead}}</ref> His papers are in an archival repository at Indiana University. John Davis of [[Marquette University]] reviewed ''History of Philosophy of Social Science'' by H.Scott Gordon in the [[Southern Economic Journal]].<ref>Published version. Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 59, No. 4 (April 1993): 835-836. DOI. © 1993
Southern Economic Association. Used with permission</ref>
Southern Economic Association. Used with permission</ref>



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H. Scott Gordon (1924–2019) was a Canadian economist born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His seminal 1954 article Economic Theory of a Common Property Resource: The Fishery marked the beginning of the modern economics study of fisheries.[1] He spent most of his career teaching and writing in the history and philosophy of economics, including the books Welfare, Justice, and Freedom (1980),[2] The History and Philosophy of Social Science (1991),[3][4] and Controlling the State: Constitutionalism from Ancient Athens to Today (2002).

Education and teaching career

Gordon began his teaching career at Carleton University (then Carleton College) in Ottawa.[citation needed] He was a Professor in both the Department of Economics and the Department of History of Philosophy and Science at Indiana University.[5][failed verification]

The Tragedy of the Commons

Scott's most well-known and seminal research on the tragedy of the commons was found in a 1954 Journal of Political Economy paper The Economic Theory of Common Property Resource: The Fishery. The role of individual fishing quotas (IFQs) also known as "individual transferable quotas" (ITQs) was shown by Gordon in his original research about fishing economics.[6][7]

Biography

Gordon's students included Margaret Schabas,[8] and J. Alfred Broaddus.[9] In Welfare, Property Rights and Economic Policy - Essays and Tributes in Honour of H. Scott Gordon by T.K. Rymes the author celebrates Gordon as one of "Canada's most distinguished social scientist and economics scholars."[10] Rymes' book was cited in the International Journal of Transport Economics(1993).[11] Gordon was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1964–1965.[12] For the period of 1977-1978, Gordon served as President of the Canadian Economics Association.[13] His papers are in an archival repository at Indiana University. John Davis of Marquette University reviewed History of Philosophy of Social Science by H.Scott Gordon in the Southern Economic Journal.[14]

References

  1. ^ Bjorndal, Trond; Munro, Gordon (2012). The economics and management of world fisheries (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0199576753.
  2. ^ Gordon, H. Scott (1980). Welfare, justice, and freedom. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231049765.
  3. ^ Gordon, H. Scott. "The History and Philosophy of Social Science". wordpress.com. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  4. ^ Gordon, Scott (1991). The History and Philosophy of Social Science. Routledge. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  5. ^ Crutchfield, James A.; Zellner, Arnold (2010). "The Economics of Marine Resources and Conservation Policy". books.google.com. Retrieved 19 June 2019. ...[D]epressed economic conditions in the halibut fishery and H. Scott Gordon's (1954) influential article dealing with common property resource problems, with special reference to fishery conservation . . . .
  6. ^ Cochran, Jr., David M.; Reese, Carl A. (Spring 2012). Southeastern Geographer. University of North Carolina Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0807872581. Evidence about IFQ systems began with H.Scott Gordon's (1954) seminal effort in the understanding of fishing economics. Gordon demonstrated why open access fisheries often perform poorly in economic terms . . . .
  7. ^ "Where Pope Francis Got It Wrong". Newsweek. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  8. ^ Schabas, Margaret; Wennerlind, Carl (2008). David Hume's Political Economy. ISBN 978-1134362509.
  9. ^ "Al Broaddus Economic Keynote Speaker". Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  10. ^ Rymes, T.K. "Welfare, Property Rights and Economic Policy - Essays and Tributes in Honor of H. Scott Gordon". Cambridge Press.
  11. ^ Rymes, T. K. "Vol. 20, No. 3, OCTOBER 1993 of International Journal of Transport Economics / Rivista internazionale di economia dei trasporti on JSTOR". www.jstor.org. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
  12. ^ "Howard Scott Gordon". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
  13. ^ "Organizational History, 1967-2018". Canadian Economics Association. Archived from the original on 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
  14. ^ Published version. Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 59, No. 4 (April 1993): 835-836. DOI. © 1993 Southern Economic Association. Used with permission