Dik Wolfson
Professor D. Wolfson is a leading economist and Professor Emeritus of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Professor Wolfson is an influential personality within academia in the Netherlands. He served on several academic advisory boards including the Board of Supervisors of the Institute of Social Studies (ISS). He is also the Chairman of the seven-member Scholarship Committee of the Netherlands Institute of Advance Study (NIAS) in the Humanities and Social Sciences since 2002.
Between 1986 and 1990 Professor Wolfson was Rector of the ISS. He worked hard to strengthen ISS as an international centre of excellence in development studies and cultural change as well as a meeting place for young professionals from all over the world to learn to respect, trust and enjoy each other’s company.
His major achievements during his rectorate included the CERES research school, in which ISS cooperates with five universities in providing PhD education. Wolfson was very much involved in the legal recognition of ISS having the right to award PhD degrees. Furthermore, the relocation of the Institute from the old building at Witte Brug to the present building, opposite the gardens of the Royal Palace. And he was also instrumental in engineering a sustainable relationship between ISS and the university system in the Netherlands.
Bibliography
Books
Regulatory taxation of energy: theory and policy / by Dirk J Wolfson; Carl C Koopmans / Rotterdam: Vakgroep Bestuurskunde, Erasmus Universiteit, 1995
Public goods, public choice and the rule of law / by Dirk J Wolfson / Rotterdam: Vakgroep Bestuurskunde, Erasmus Universiteit, 1995.
Excess burdens, double dividends and the taxation of fossil fuels / by Dirk J Wolfson / Rotterdam: Vakgroep Bestuurskunde, Erasmus Universiteit, 1995.
Fiscal Policy, Taxation and the Financial System in an Increasingly Integrated Europe/ by Dirk Wolfson et al./ed. Donald E. Fair and Christian de Boissieu, Lancaster: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992.
Towards a theory of subsidisation / by Dirk Wolfson /the Hague: Institute of Social Studies, 1989.
Controlling the welfare state / by Dirk J Wolfson / Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 1986.
Controlling the welfare state: a case study of retrenchment in the Netherlands / by Dirk Jacob Wolfson / Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 1986.
“The Fiscal Policy Aspect of Development Strategy,” In: Economic Policy and Planning in Third World Development / ed. Pradip K. Ghosh, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1984.
Criteria in Engineering Social Justice / by Dirk J Wolfson / Rotterdam: Erasmus University, 1983
Naar een beheersbare collectieve sector /by A G J Haselbekke; Dirk Jacob Wolfson et al / Deventer: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1981.
Overlevingskansen van de verzorgingsstaat / by Dirk Jacob Wolfson et al / Leiden: Stenfert Kroese, 1981.
Public finance and development strategy / by Dirk Jacob Wolfson / Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
Fiscal policy and development strategy: public economics in developing countries/by Dirk Jacob Wolfson/ Bergen: Chr. Michelsen Institute, DERAP Publications, 1973.
Articles
“50 Years of the ISS Crucial Years: 1986-1990”, DevISSues, 4(1), 2002.
Economic Revolution and Structure: The impact of complexity on U.S. economic system, De Economist 146(3), 1998.
“Regulatory taxation of fossil fuels: Theory and policy” (with Carl C. Koopmans), Ecological Economics 19(1), 1995.
“Book reviews” (with A. Heertje, Harry Garretsen, F. C. Palm, M. M. G. Fase, Jakob de Haan, W. F. V. Vanthoor, H. W. J. Bosman, Clemens J. M. Kool, C. J. Ruissen, R. J. de Groof, Hans Peters, Harro Maas, F. Hartog and Evert van Imhoff), De Economist 143(4), 1995.
Economic justice in American society (with R. E. Kuenne) De Economist 143 (4), 1995.
The Meaning of Market Process. Essays in the Development of Modern Austrian Economics (with Israel Kirzner), De Economist 142(4) 1994.
Chinese state enterprises door D. Granick ; Over ontgroening en vergrijzing: demografie en economisch draagvlak door E.J.J.E. van Leeuwen-Schut ... [et al.] : boekbespreking (with R. Knaack), De Economist 140(2), 1992.
Participatie en legitimatie, Economisch Statistische Berichten 76(3790), 1991.
Economic adjustment: policies and problems door F. Holmes (ed.) : boekbespreking, De Economist 137 (4) 1989.
No nonsense, alstublieft, Economisch Statistische Berichten 71(3579), 1986.
On the social selectivity of public spending programmes, Netherlands Journal of Sociology 19 (2) 1983.
“Book Notes,” The Economic Journal 90(358), 1980.
“Pen and tinbergen on income distribution: A review article”, De Economist, 127(3), 1979.
Other resources
Report of the independent research into the administrative possibilities, as well as the energy and economic impacts of the introduction of regulating energy taxes/ Wolfson, Dirk Jacob / Steering Committee on Regulating Energy Taxes / 1992
Towards a theory of subsidisation / Dirk J. Wolfson / The Hague: ISS, 1989 (Working paper)
Controlling the welfare state: a case study of retrenchment in the Netherlands / Dirk J. Wolfson / Rotterdam: Erasmus University Rotterdam, Institute for Economic Research, 1986.Institute for Economic Research discussion paper series, series_number: 8612/P) 7227
Criteria in engineering social justice/ Dirk J. Wolfson, Rotterdam : Erasmus University. Institute for Economic Research, 1983. Discussion paper series / Institute for Economic Research ; 8310/P
The Quest for Public Sector Efficiency / Dirk J. Wolfson/ In: Public finance and the quest for efficiency: paper presented at the 38th Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance at Copenhagen, Rotterdam : Erasmus University, August 23-26, 1982. Discussion paper series / Institute for Economic Research ; 8213/P
Public finance and the quest for efficiency : paper presented at the 38th Congres of the International Institute of Public Finance at Copenhagen, August 23-26, 1982.
The Quest for Public Sector Effinciency-Music Working Group III: on Methods/ Dirk J. Wolfson/ Discussion paper series / Institute for Economic Research ; 8213/P, Rotterdam : Erasmus University
“Problems of Budget Analysis and Treasury Management in French-speaking Africa”/by Petrus J. van de Ven and Dirk J. Wolfson, International Monetary Fund Staff Papers, March 1969.
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