H. Scott Gordon
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, in his role as a mentoring professor at Indiana University and elsewhere, influenced the history of philosophy and economics via many of his former students and associates including Margaret Schabas,[8] Robert Leonard,[9] Harold Kincaid,[10] D. Wade Hands,[11] and J. Alfred Broaddus.[12] 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."[13] Rymes' book was cited in the International Journal of Transport Economics(1993).[14] Gordon was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1964–1965.[15] For the period of 1977-1978, Gordon served as President of the Canadian Economics Association.[16] 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.[17]
References
- ^ Bjorndal, Trond; Munro, Gordon (2012). The economics and management of world fisheries (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 21. ISBN 978-0199576753.
- ^ Gordon, H. Scott (1980). Welfare, justice, and freedom. Columbia University Press. ISBN 0231049765.
- ^ Gordon, H. Scott. "The History and Philosophy of Social Science". wordpress.com. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ Gordon, Scott (1991). The History and Philosophy of Social Science. Routledge. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ 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 . . . .
- ^ 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 . . . .
- ^ "Where Pope Francis Got It Wrong". Newsweek. 1 October 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ Schabas, Margaret; Wennerlind, Carl (2008). David Hume's Political Economy. ISBN 978-1134362509.
- ^ Leonard, Robert (2010). Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the creation of game theory : from chess to social science, 1900--1960. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511778278. ISBN 9780511778278.
- ^ Press, The MIT. "Harold Kincaid". The MIT Press. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ "Wade Hands · University of Puget Sound". www.pugetsound.edu. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ "Al Broaddus Economic Keynote Speaker". Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ Rymes, T.K. "Welfare, Property Rights and Economic Policy - Essays and Tributes in Honor of H. Scott Gordon". Cambridge Press.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Howard Scott Gordon". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- ^ "Organizational History, 1967-2018". Canadian Economics Association. Archived from the original on 2016-02-26. Retrieved 2019-06-20.
- ^ Published version. Southern Economic Journal, Vol. 59, No. 4 (April 1993): 835-836. DOI. © 1993 Southern Economic Association. Used with permission
