Name W. MacLeod Fields Labour economics | ||
 | ||
Education Queen's University, University of British Columbia | ||
Nationality Canada, United States | ||
Pay for performance or performance for pay w bentley macleod
William Bentley MacLeod (born 1954) is a Canadian-American economist. He is the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and an Affiliated Faculty at Columbia Law School. He is a specialist in the fields of law, labor and contract theory.
Contents
- Pay for performance or performance for pay w bentley macleod
- Education
- Academic career
- Notable publications
- Personal life
- References
Education
MacLeod received a B.A. with distinction in Mathematics from Queen's University in 1975 and an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Queen's University in 1979. He completed his economics doctorate at the University of British Columbia in 1984.
Academic career
He began his teaching career at Queen's University, then he taught at Université de Montréal, Boston College, University of Southern California, California Institute of Technology and Princeton University, before coming to Columbia University. He has also held one year visiting positions at Center for Operations Research and Econometrics(Belgium), Instituto de Análisis Económico(Barcelona), the Russell Sage Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Studies. He was elected fellow of the Econometric Society in 2005, and fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2012. He is also the recipient of the 2002 H. Gregg Lewis prize awarded by the Society of Labor Economists for his article "Worker Cooperation and the Ratchet" with H. Lorne Carmichael.
Notable publications
Personal life
MacLeod is married to Janet Currie, an economist at Princeton University. They have two children.