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Dean Lueck

Ph.D., University of Washington, 1987; Bartley P. Cardon Professor, Professor of Economics (by courtesy), Professor of Law (by courtesy), and Co-Director, Program on Economics, Law, and the Environment; Agricultural Contracts and Organization, Economics of Law, Natural Resource Economics.

 

 

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Office: Economics, Rm. 421
Phone: (520) 621-4371
email: lueck@email.arizona.edu

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Dr. Lueck’s research focuses on contracts and organization in agriculture and the economics of law and property rights to natural resources, with an emphasis on empirical studies. He is the recipient of the 1992 Best Article Award (for “Ownership and the Regulation of Wildlife”) from the Western Economics Association. In 1994–1995, he was a John M. Olin Faculty Fellow in Law and Economics at Yale Law School. He has also been a visiting scholar at Cornell University (2000) and was a visiting professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain (2001). He was Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law from 2002–2003. He is the author (with Douglas W. Allen) of The Nature of the Farm (MIT Press 2003).

Selected Publications

“Preemptive Habitat Destruction under the Endangered Species Act.” Journal of Law & Economics 46(2003):27–60. With Jeffrey A. Michael.

“The Gains from Self Ownership and the Expansion of Women’s Rights.” American Economic Review (2002):1079–1092. With Rick Geddes.

“The Extermination and Conservation of the American Bison.” Journal of Legal Studies (2002):S609–S652.

“A Hotelling-Faustmann Explanation of the Structure of Christmas Tree Pricing.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2001):513–525. With Tomislav Vukina and Christiana E. Hilmer.

“The Role of Risk in Contract Choice.” Journal of Law, Economics & Organization (1999):704–736. With Douglas W. Allen.

“The Nature of the Farm.” Journal of Law and Economics (1998):343–386. With Douglas W. Allen.

“The Rule of First Possession and the Design of the Law.” Journal of Law and Economics (1995):393–436.

“Risk Preferences and the Economics of Contracts.” American Economic Review (1995):447–451. With Douglas W. Allen.

“Market and Regulatory Forces in the Pricing of Legal Services.” Journal of Regulatory Economics (1995):63–83. With Reed Olsen and Michael Ransom.

“Modeling Common Property Ownership as a Dynamic Contract.” Natural Resources Modeling (1994):225–245. With Michael R. Caputo.

“Common Property as an Egalitarian Share Contract.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (1994):93–108.

“Transaction Costs and the Design of Cropshare Contracts.” RAND Journal of Economics (1993):78–100. With Douglas W. Allen.

“Land Tenure and Agricultural Productivity on Indian Reservations.” Journal of Law and Economics (1992):427–454. With Terry L. Anderson.

“Contract Choice in Modern Agriculture: Cash Rent vs. Cropshare.” Journal of Law and Economics (1992):397–426. With Douglas W. Allen.

“Ownership and the Regulation of Wildlife.” Economic Inquiry (1991):249–260.

“The Economic Nature of Wildlife Law.” Journal of Legal Studies (1989):291–324.

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