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John G. Searle Professor of Economics and Management

Jonathan Feinstein is interested in creativity and innovation, and the paths of creative development of entrepreneurs and creators of all kinds. He is the author of The Nature of Creative Development (Stanford University Press, 2006). His class The Practice and Management of Creativity & Innovation was featured in the BusinessWeek Online article, "Creativity Comes to B-Schools" in the spring of 2006. His current work focuses on formal models of creativity and the development of creative fields, linking economics, creativity & innovation, and knowledge representation. In addition to his class on creativity & innovation, Professor Feinstein teaches the electives Public Sector Economics and Statistical Modeling and runs the math bootcamp for incoming students. Professor Feinstein is an expert in the field of tax compliance and the analysis of audit and detection processes, and has written with Professor Ed Kaplan on counter-terrorism. He is also a director of the Yale Center for Business and the Environment.

Selected Articles
"Unleashing Creative Development," Kindai Management Review, Winter, 2013

"Optimal Learning Patterns for Creativity Generation in a Field," American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, May, 2011

"Creativity & The Economic System" in B. Kerr, ed.,  Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent, SAGE Publications, September, 2009

"Public Goods in Trade: On the Formation of Markets and Jurisdictions" (with A. Casella), International Economic Review, Vol. 43, No. 2, May, 2002

"Tax Compliance" (with J. Andreoni and B. Erard), Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 36, No. 2, June 1998. Reprinted in Taxation: Critical Perspectives on the World Economy, edited by S. James, Routledge, 2002

"The Relationship Between Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Review of the Literature," The Milbank Quarterly, Vol. 71, No. 2, 279-322, 1993

"An Econometric Analysis of Income Tax Evasion and Its Detection," RAND Journal of Economics, 1991

"Detection Controlled Estimation," Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 33, No. 1, 233-76, April, 1990

"The Safety Regulation of U.S. Nuclear Power Plants: Violations, Inspections, and Abnormal Occurrences," Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 97, No. 1, 115-54, February, 1989

Working Papers
"Creating Fields: Learning, Creativity Generation, Paths of Development"

"Overlaps and Diversity in What is Taught at Top U.S. Economics Graduate Programs" (with A. Campbell)

Education
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
BA Stanford University, 1982