Greene, Kenneth V. 1943–

PERSONAL:

Born September 26, 1943, in Brooklyn, NY; son of Joseph (an insurance claims consultant) and Alice Hagan (a homemaker) Greene; married Suzanne Greene, July 1, 1995 (deceased, September 20, 2003); married Lorraine Pasadino (a school president) March 19, 2006; children: Kenneth R., Kavan J., Brendan J., Tara P., Erin. Ethnicity: "Irish-American." Education: St. John's University, B.B.A.; University of Virginia, M.A., 1967, Ph.D., 1968. Religion: Roman Catholic. Hobbies and other interests: Cooking, music.

ADDRESSES:

Home— Binghamton, NY. Office— Economics Department, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY 13902. E-mail— [email protected].

CAREER:

Educator and author. University of Colorado, Boulder, visiting professor, 1969-80; Urban Institute, Washington, DC, research staff member, 1971, senior research associate, 1972-73; State University of New York, Binghamton, assistant professor, 1968-75, associate professor, 1975-82, professor of economics, 1982—, director of graduate admission in economics, 1970-1972, cochairman of the Departmental Seminar Committee, 1970-71, director of graduate studies, 1979-1981, chairman, department of economics, 1981-84, director of undergraduate studies, 1993-96, 1999-2000, member of Faculty Senate Executive Committee and Faculty Senate Educational Policy & Priorities Committee, 1994-1997, and Faculty Senate Educational Policy & Priorities Committee, 1999-2000. Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, consultant, 1975. Member of the education committee, Blessed Sacrament Church, Johnson City, NY, 1978.

MEMBER:

Public Choice Society, American Economic Association, Western Economic Association.

AWARDS, HONORS:

National Defense Education Act fellow, 1965-68; New York State Faculty Research fellow, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1974; State University of New York, Binghamton Economics Department fellow, 1976-1979; International Center for Economic Research fellow, Turin, Italy, 1997—.

WRITINGS:

Fiscal Interactions in a Metropolitan Area, Lexington Books (Lexington, MA), 1974.

(With Phillip J. Nelson)Signaling Goodness: Social Rules and Public Choice, University of Michigan Press (Ann Arbor, MI), 2003.

Contributor of articles to professional journals, including Review of Social Economy and Public Choice. Contributor of reviews to periodicals, including National Tax Journal,American Economic Review, Public Finance Quarterly, Public Finance Review, Journal of Economic Behavior, Educational Economics, Journal of Economics and Business,Public Finance, Kyklos, Public Choice, Eastern Economics Journal, Land Economics, Journal of Politics, and Urban Studies.

SIDELIGHTS:

Kenneth V. Greene was born September 26, 1943, in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.B.A. from St. John's University, and his master's degree and doctorate from the University of Virginia, in 1967 and 1968 respectively. He is a member of the Public Choice Society, American Economic Association, and Western Economic Association. He began his career as a visiting professor at the University of Colorado. He moved to the State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton to become an assistant professor in 1968. Since then, he has risen to the rank of distinguished professor of economics.

Greene has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in public expenditures, public choice, public finance, micro- and macroeconomics, and urban and welfare economics at the SUNY Binghamton, for over twenty-five years. As a renowned expert in his field, Greene has published many articles in professional journals, as well as authoring noted books in the field of economics. He published his first book,Fiscal Interactions in a Metropolitan Area, in 1974.

In 2003, Greene and colleague Phillip J. Nelson produced Signaling Goodness: Social Rules and Public Choice in which they examine the effects of reputation signaling on economic politics. The authors propose that those who promote only one side of a governmental issue such as environmental or educational programs gain a reputation for trustworthiness, which, in turn, has greatly affected the changing nature of government policies. Greene and Nelson suggest that this "asymmetric goodness signaling" not only influences society to donate more time and money to charitable ventures, but also ultimately causes the government to provide greater financial support for such issues. Additionally, the authors conclude that goodness signaling also enhances people's perceptions of themselves. In a review for the discover-e: Research at Binghamton University News Web site, one contributor noted that Greene and Nelson's work "contains a plethora of empirical data" to support the ideas they put forth.

In addition to teaching and writing, Greene served for a time as a consultant to the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has been awarded numerous fellowships throughout his long and distinguished career. In his spare time, Greene enjoys cooking and music.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 10, number 1, January, 1981, Mark Crain and Robert D. Tollison, "Representation and Influence: A Reply," pp. 215-219.

ONLINE

Binghamton University, Department of Economics Home Page,http://econ.binghamton.edu/ (November 3, 2007), profile of Kenneth V. Greene.

discover-e: Research at Binghamton University News Web site,http://research.binghamton.edu/discovere/ (April 1, 2004), review of Signaling Goodness: Social Rules and Public Choice.

Inside BU Web site,http://inside.binghamton.edu/ (September 25, 2003), Katie Ellis, "Green [sic], Miller Named Distinguished Professors."

Kenneth Greene Home Page, http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~kgreene (November 3, 2007).

University of Michigan Press Web site,http://www.press.umich.edu/ (November 3, 2007), description of Signaling Goodness.