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Measuring the economic aspects of wellbeing
Lars Spencer Osberg, BA (Queen's), MPhil (Yale), PhD (Yal)
Current research
- Measurement of social exclusion and poverty
- Leisure co-ordination and economic well-being
- International comparisons of attitudes to inequality
- Measurement of economic well being
Background
- 1968: BA. (Hon.), Queen's University
- 1972: M.Phil., Yale University
- 1975: PhD, Yale University
Published
- The Economic Implications of Social Cohesion (edited) University of Toronto Press
- Principles of Microeconomics: Second Edition – 2005 McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto
- Principles of Macroeconomics: Second Edition – 2005 McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Toronto
Honours
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Sabbatical Leave Fellowship, 1983-84.
- Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1974-75.
- University Fellowship, Yale University, 1970-71, 1971-72, 1972-73, 1974-75.
Professional associations
- Canadian Economic Association;
- Association for Research in Income and Wealth;
- American Economic Association
Website
Lars Osberg website
E-mail: Dr. Lars Osberg |
Dr. Lars Spencer Osberg
University Research Professor, McCulloch Professor of Economics
Lars Osberg is currently the McCulloch Professor of Economics, University Research Professor, and Chair of the Department of Economics at Dalhousie University, but he began life in Ottawa, Ontario. As an undergraduate, he attended Queen’s University, Kingston and the London School of Economics and Political Science. After two years working for the Tanzania Sisal Corporation as a CUSO volunteer, he went to Yale University for his Ph.D.
His first book was Economic Inequality in Canada (1981), and the most recent is The Economic Implications of Social Cohesion (edited - 2003). In between there have been eight others and two editions of an introductory textbook. He is also the author of numerous refereed articles in professional journals, book chapters, reviews, reports and miscellaneous publications. His major fields of research interest have been the extent and causes of poverty and economic inequality, with particular emphasis in recent years on social policy, social cohesion and the implications of working time, unemployment and structural change. Among other professional responsibilities, he was President of the Canadian Economics Association in 1999-2000 and is currently Review Editor for the Review of Income and Wealth.
Recent papers can be found at http://myweb.dal.ca/osberg/
