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USC lands interdisciplinary scholar to head new Ph.D. program

By Richard Binder

USC has recruited Mathew D. McCubbins to join the faculty in January as a Provost Professor. He will share appointments at the USC Marshall School of Business, the USC Gould School of Law and USC College. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at USC since 2006 and is co-director of the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics.

McCubbins earned a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a former fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the behavioral sciences. He is the co-author of six books, editor or co-editor of eight additional books and the author or co-author of nearly 100 scholarly articles. He has published under the nom de plume of McNollgast with co-authors Roger Noll and Barry Weingast.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on December 10, 2009 (boomark / email).