Kevin James Bowman

Assistant Professor,

Department of Economics

Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

 

address: 400 East 2nd Street, Bloomsburg, Pa 17815

phone: 570-389-4341

office location: Bakeless Hall 313A

homepage: http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/kbowma2

email: kbowma2@bloomu.edu


Office Hours Spring 2008

MW 11:00-12:15 and 1:00-1:45, F 11:00-12:00 (no appointment needed), and

at other times by appointment.


Education

University of Illinois at Chicago: Ph.D. Economics, 2005.

University of Illinois at Chicago: M.A. Economics, 1999. 

Indiana University, Bloomington: B.A. Economics, Minors in Political Science and History, 1992.


PAPERS

(Downloadable papers are in PDF format. 

They are working papers or preprint versions of papers that have been subsequently published)

 

 

Articles in New Growth Theory

(addressing technological change and inequality issues):

 

Endogenous Human Capital Investment and the Interaction of Frontier and Adoptive Technologies on Growth and Wage Inequality  

Economics of Innovation and New Technology, forthcoming Fall 2008.

 

Knowledge Stocks by Distance to Frontier: Linking Low Education Inequality to High Growth in Developing Countries 

The Journal of Asian Economics, 18(4), p. 613-635, Aug. 2007.

 

Trade in Frontier Technology on Wage Inequality with Endogenous Human Capital Formation for Invention and Innovation

(Under Peer Review)

 

"Public-Lower and Private-Higher Human Capital Investment Interacting with Frontier and Adoptive Technologies"

 

 

Articles in Interdisciplinary Development:

 

Holonic Development: Discovering and Applying Missing Drives From Ken Wilber’s AQAL Model

(Under Peer Review)

 

Integral Neoclassical Economic Growth

(Under Review)

 

"Relative Intensities in Holonic Development"

 

"Holonic Economic Development"

 

           

Articles in the Teaching Economics

 

"Aligning Student and Instructor Goals: A Game Theoretic Approach" with Sarinda Taengnoi

 

"An Integral Approach to Teaching Economic Development"

 

 

Book Reviews:

 

 Growth and Productivity in East Asia with Saleem M. Khan. 

The Journal of Asian Economics 17(5), p. 943-51, Nov. 2006.

 

 


 

Undergraduate Courses Taught

Growth and Development

International Economics

Economic Thought

Contrasting Economics

Managerial Economics

 Business and Economics Mathematics

Intermediate Macroeconomics

Intermediate Microeconomics

Principles of Macroeconomics

 

Graduate Course Taught

Economics of Japan and the Pacific Rim


Previous Positions

Staff Economist

Economic Consulting Services, Inc.

Washington, DC

1/99-6/00

 

Market Research Analyst

Ronald J. Krumm and Associates

Oak Park, IL

1/98-10/98

 

Community Development Planner

Cook County Dept. of Planning and Development

Chicago, IL

10/95-1/98

 

Assistant Branch Manager

American General Finance

Niles, IL

7/93-6/95


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