Publications
May 2007

Professor Zoltan Acs co-edited, with Alan Lyles, Obesity, Business and Public Policy, published by Edward Elgar in 2007.

Professor Kenneth Button’s books Planning History and Methodology: 5 (Classics in Planning), co-edited with Michael Wegener and Peter Nijkamp, and Land Use Planning: 6 (Classics in Planning), co-edited with Hugo Priemus and Peter Nijkamp, were published in January by Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. His book Handbook of Transport Modeling (Handbooks in Transport), co-written with David Hnsher, will have its 2nd edition published in August by Elsevier Science & Technology.

Button, who is also the director of the Center for Transportation, Policy, Operations, and Logistics, and director of the Aerospace Policy Research Center, published the article “Time for the U.S. to Reform Its Soviet-style Approach to ATC” in the Viewpoint section of the April 30 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine. His article “Ability to Recover Full Costs through Price Discrimination in Deregulated Scheduled Air Transport Markets,” written with A. Costa and C. Cruz, was published in Transport Reviews, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2007).

Adjunct Professor Brent M. Eastwood’s article "Walk This Way" on transportation and urban/planning politics was published in The American.

Kevin J. Fandl’s (current PhD student) article “Bilateral Agreements and Fair Trade Practices: A Policy Analysis of the Colombia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (2006)” will be published this month in the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal (citation:10 Yale Human Rts. & Dev. L. J. 64; 2006).

Emilia Istrate, Debasree DasGupta, and Paul Weissburg (current PhD Students) will have their article "Toward Developing a Structured Approach to the Diagnosis and Resolution of Nonperforming Loans" published in the July 2007 issue of Review of Policy Research.

Emilia Istrate (current PhD student) co-wrote with Professor Maksim Tsvetovat and Karabi Acharya “Networks on the Ground- Rural Development in Kenya.” This article, a result of Istrate’s collaboration with Mason’s Center for Social Complexity will appear in the International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations special issue: Social Networking and Knowledge Flows.