Richard Weisskoff, Ph.D.

(Columbia University)

Professor

• rweisskoff@miami.edu
• 305-284-6864

Associate Professor, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. He has research interests in economic development and ecology, Latin America, regional economics, income distribution, and poverty studies. Dr. Weisskoff has worked at the United Nations, Bar Ilan University ( Israel ), Iowa State, and Yale, and has been a visiting professor at Notre Dame, American University, and at universities in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Peru.

 

Publications:

Courses taught:

• INS 332 Environment & Development

  INS 421 Natural Disasters and Their Prevention

  INS 476 Poverty and Environment

  INS 520 PY “Economics of Terrorism”