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Makes learning exciting and meaningful.
Makes learning interactive and fun.
Great Professor!
Richard Cornes served as Emeritus Professor in the Research School of Economics at the Australian National University, where he held the F. H. Gruen Chair in Economics. His academic career at ANU spanned two periods: from 1972 to 1995 and from 2008 to 2013. Prior to his later ANU appointment, Cornes was Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham. He also held positions at Keele University Department of Economics, Iowa State University Department of Economics, and contributed to various institutions including the University of Western Australia, Hokkaido University, and the University of Manchester through research collaborations and working papers.
Cornes specialized in public economics, focusing on the theory of public goods, externalities, club goods, contests, rent-seeking, aggregative games, matching equilibria, and production-appropriation models. His seminal contributions advanced understanding of voluntary contributions to public goods, non-Nash behavior, joint production, and international cooperation on global public goods. Key publications include the influential book 'The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club Goods' co-authored with Todd Sandler (1986); 'Dyke Maintenance and Other Stories: Some Neglected Types of Public Goods' (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993); 'Fully Aggregative Games' with Roger Hartley (Economics Letters, 2012); 'Easy Riders, Joint Production, and Public Goods' with Todd Sandler (Economic Journal, 1984); 'On Commons and Tragedies' with Todd Sandler (American Economic Review, 1983); 'Aggregative Public Good Games' with Roger Hartley (Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2007); and 'Public Goods and Public Bads' with Wolfgang Buchholz and Dirk Rübbelke (Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2018). Cornes published extensively in top-tier journals such as Econometrica, Journal of Political Economy, and Journal of Public Economics. His work garnered over 6,000 citations, placing him in the top 5% of economists according to RePEc rankings, reflecting his profound impact on the field of public economics.