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PETER NAVARRO

University of California, Irvine

The Paul Merage School of Business

Irvine, California 92697

Ph: 949-357-9330

http://www.peternavarro.com


EDUCATION

1986    Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University

1979    Masters of Public Administration, Kennedy School of Government

1972    B.A., Tufts University

 

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

1988-Present    University of California, Professor of Economics and Public Policy.

1986-1988        University of San Diego, Assistant Professor of Economics.

1985-1986        University of California at San Diego, Lecturer.

1981-1985        Energy and Environmental Policy Center, Harvard University, Research Associate.

1979-1980        The Department of Energy, Policy Analyst.

1978                The Massachusetts Energy Office, Policy Analyst.

1976-1977        Urban Services Group, Policy Analyst for Washington based consulting firm.

1973-1976        United States Peace Corps, Thailand.

 

BOOKS

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  1. The Well-timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage.  (Wharton School Publishing, Forthcoming January 2006) 

  2. What the Best MBAs Know: How to Apply the Greatest Ideas Taught in the Best Business Schools.   (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005)

  3. When the Market Moves, Will You Be Ready? How to Profit From Major Market Events.  (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003)

  4. If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks: The Investor’s Guide to Profiting From News and Other Market-moving Events.  (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001)

  5. Bill Clinton's Agenda for America, (Portland, Williams Publishing, Inc., 1993)

  6. Job Opportunities Under Clinton/Gore, with Craig Adams (Portland, Williams Publishing, Inc. 1993)

  7. The Policy Game (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1984).

  8. The Dimming of America: The Real Costs of electric Utility Regulation (Cambridge: Ballinger Publishing Co., 1984).

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  1. “The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle,” California Management Review, Fall, 2005.

  2. "The Hidden Potential of Macroeconomics in MBA Programs for CEO Decision Making," Academy of Management Learning & Education, Forthcoming 2006.

  3. "Cell Phone Roulette & Consumer Interactive Quality,” Journal of Policy Analysis & Management, Vol. 24, Issue 2, Spring 2005.

  4. "Why Johnny Can't Lead," Harvard Business Review, December 2004 (Note).

  5. "Principles of the Master Cyclist,” Sloan Management Review, Winter 2004.

  6. "On the Political Economy of Electricity Deregulation – California Style,” Electricity Journal, Vol. 17, Issue 2, March 2004.

  7. "The Future of Electricity Deregulation: Lessons Learned From the California Crisis.”  Energy Law Journal, Summer 2003.

  8. "Aftershocks—and Essential Lessons—From the California Electricity Debacle,” Electricity Journal, Vol. 16, Issue 4, May-June, 2003.

  9. "Follow the Market’s Cues,” Harvard Business Review, May, 2002.

  10. "Are You Ready for a Blackout? Harvard Business Review, April, 2001.

  11. "Assessing the Costs of Terrorism,” (With Aron Spencer).  Milken Institute Review, Fourth Quarter, 2001.

  12. "Promoting Wind Energy Development in an Era of Restructuring," (With Frank Harris), Electricity Journal, January-February, 2000.

  13. "Natural Wastewater Treatment: An Unfulfilled Potential," Public Works Management & Policy, January 2000.

  14. "Economics in the Cyber Classroom," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2000.

  15. "Policy Issues in the Teaching of Economics in Cyberspace," (With Judy Shoemaker), Contemporary Economic Policy, July 2000.

  16. "Economics in Cyberspace: A Comparison Study," (With Judy Shoemaker), American Journal of Distance Education.  Summer 2000.

  17. "The Power of Cyberlearning: An Empirical Test,” (With Judy Shoemaker), Journal of Computing in Higher Education, Fall 1999.

  18. "Notes from the Electronic Classroom,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Winter, 1998.

  19. "The Case for Radical Restructuring of the Electricity Industry,” Harvard Business Review, January-February,” 1996.

  20. "The Simple Analytics of Performance-based Ratemaking: A Guide for the PBR Regulator,” Yale Journal on Regulation, Winter, 1996.

  21. "The Restructuring Regulator:  A Guidebook and Research Agenda For the Electricity Industry,” Energy Law Journal, Fall, 1995.

  22. "The ABCs of Performance-based Ratemaking," Public Utilities Fortnightly, July 15, 1995.

  23. "On the Theory of Growth Controls." (With Rob Engle and Richard Carson), Journal of Urban Economics, November, 1992.

  24. "A Reevaluation of the Evidence on Decreasing Average Costs in Nuclear Power." (With Jack Marshall), Rand Journal, Spring, 1991.

  25. "Growth Controls:  Policy Analysis for the Second Generation." (With Richard Carson), Policy Sciences, May, 1991.

  26. "Electricity Price Shocks and International Trade," International Journal of Japan and the World Economy, 1990.

  27. "Creating (& Destroying) Comparative Trade Advantage," Journal of Comparative Regulation, June, 1989.

  28. "The U.S. Regulatory Environment and International Trade:  Lessons from the Electricity Sector," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Summer, 1989. 

  29. "Fundamental Issues in Natural Resource Damage Assessments," with Richard Carson,  Natural Resource Law Journal, Fall, 1988.

  30. "Comparative Energy Policy:  The Economics of Nuclear Power in Japan and the U.S.,"  Energy Journal, October, 1988.

  31. "How Markets For Impure Public Goods Organize," with Jeffery Dubin,  Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Fall, 1988.

  32. "The Income Elasticity of Corporate Contributions," Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Winter, 1988.

  33. "A Buyer's (& Seller's) Guide to the Job Market for Beginning Ph.D. Economists," with Richard Carson.  Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1988.

  34. "Why Do Corporations Give to Charity," Journal of Business, January 1988.

  35. "Capture and Ideology in American Farm Policy," Journal of Rural Sociology, Vol. 49, No. 4, Winter, 1984.

  36. "Union Bargaining Power in the Coal Industry, 1945-1981," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 36, No. 2, January, 1983.

  37. "Risk Spreading and U.S. Energy Development," Energy Systems and Policy Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, 1982.

  38. "Our Stake in the Electric Utility's Dilemma," Harvard Business Review, May-June,1982.

  39. "Public Utility Regulation: Performance, Determinants, and Energy Policy Impacts," Energy Journal, April, 1982.

  40. "The Legal History and Economic Implications of Oil Pipeline Regulation," Energy Law Journal, Fall, 1981, with T. Stauffer.

  41. "Financing U.S. Energy Development: An Economist's Perspective," Energy Law Journal, Vol. 2, May, 1981.

  42. "A Critical Comparison of Utility-Type Ratemaking Methodologies in Oil Pipeline Regulation," Bell Journal of Economics, Autumn, 1981, with Thomas R. Stauffer and Bruce C. Peterson.

  43. "The 1977 Clean Air Act Amendments: Energy, Environmental, Economic and Distributional Impacts," Public Policy, Spring, 1981.

 

MULTIMEDIA TEXTBOOKS & MATERIALS

  1. Principles of Economics:  Business, Banking, Finance, and Your Everyday Life,  (New York: Recorded Books, 2005, 7 Audio CDs).

  2. Big Picture Investing: How, When, and Why the Stock Market Moves,  The Modern Scholar Series (New York: Recorded Books, 2004, 7 Audiocassettes).

  3. The Power of Microeconomics, (San Francisco, Irwin-McGraw Hill, 1999).  Click here for the Learning Guide.

  4. The Power of Macroeconomics, (San Francisco, Irwin-McGraw Hill, 1998).  Click here for the Learning Guide.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. "The Promise -- and Potential Pitfalls -- of Cyberlearning," in Issues in Web-based Pedagogy, Greenwood Publishing, Summer, 2000.

  2. "The Japanese Electric Utility Industry," Cambridge University Press, 1996.

  3. "The Performance of Utility Commissions," Electric Power, edited by John Moorhouse, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1986.

  4. "Regulatory Climate and the Cost of Capital," Issues in Utility Economics, edited by Professor Michael Crew, Lexington Books, Fall 1982, with J. Dubin.

 

BOOK REVIEWS

  1. Laura E. Hein, Fueling growth:  The Energy Revolution and Economic Policy in Post-war Japan (Harvard University Press), Journal of Comparative Economics, June 1992.

  2. Yoon Hyung Kim and Kirk R. Smith, Electricity in Economic Development: The Experience of Northeast Asia (Greenwood Press), Journal of Energy and Development, Spring 1991.

  3. Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan, The Reason of Rules: Constitutional Political Economy (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1985), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

  4. Kichiro Hayashi, The U.S.-Japanese Economic Relationship: Can It Be Improved?  Journal of Comparative Economics.

 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

  1. "Should We Privatize Social Security?"  Controller’s Quarterly, State of California, Fall 2001.

  2. "Declaring Economic War on the Power Cartel: How California Can Protect Itself During the Coming Summer of ‘Rolling Blackmail,’”  (With UCAN).

  3. "Policy Options for Promoting Wind Energy Development in California: A Report to the Governor and State Legislature," (with Frank Harris).  November, 1999.

  4. "How to Accelerate Global Wind Energy Development," (with Frank Harris).  February 2000.

  5. "Rent Control in Cambridge, Mass.," Public Interest, Spring, 1985.

  6. "The Effect of Rate Suppression on Utilities' Cost of Capital," Public Utilites Fort Nightly, Vol. III, No. 7, March 31, 1983.

  7. "How Wall Street Ranks the Public Utility Commissions," Financial Analysts Journal, November/December 1983.

  8. "Save Now, Freeze Later," Regulation, September/October 1983.

  9. "The Soft, Hard, or Smart Path: Charting the Electric Utility Industry's Future," Public Utilities Fortnightly, June 18, 1981, Vol. 107, No. 13.

  10. "A Critique of Conventional Utility Ratemaking Methodologies," Public Utilities Fortnightly, February 27, 1981, with Thomas Stauffer.

  11. "Electric Utility Regulation and National Energy Policy," Regulation, January/February, 1981.

  12. "Rent Control and the Landlord's Loophole: Condominium Conversions in Cambridge Massachusetts," Urban Land, Volume 39, No. 10, November 1980.

  13. "The Politics of Air Pollution," Public Interest, Spring, 1980.

  14. "The Energy Crisis," Regulation," January/February, 1980, with Joseph P. Kalt.

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