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Paul N. Courant University Librarian; Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Economics
BA in history, Swarthmore College; MA and Ph.D. in economics, Princeton
(734) 764-9356
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E-mail: pnc@umich.edu
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Paul N. Courant is university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Michigan, the Harold T. Shapiro Collegiate Professor of Public Policy in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Economics, and a professor of information. He is also a faculty associate in the Institute for Social Research.
From 2002-05, Courant served as provost and executive vice-president for academic affairs, the chief academic officer and chief budget officer of the University.
He has also served as the associate provost for academic and budgetary affairs, chair of the Department of Economics and director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (which is now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy). In 1979 and 1980 he was a senior staff economist at the Council of Economic Advisers.
Courant has authored half a dozen books and over 70 papers covering a broad range of topics in economics and public policy, including tax policy, local economic development, gender differences in pay, housing, radon and public health, relationships between economic growth and environmental policy, and university budgeting systems. More recently, he is studying the economics of universities, the economics of libraries and archives, and the changes in the system of scholarly communication that derive from new information technologies.
He is a board member and treasurer for the Resource Innovation Group. He has served on the Land Economics Editorial Board and as a member of the Policy Council for the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. His memberships include the American Economic Association, the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, and the National Tax Association.
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