 | Jonathan S. Feinstein |
Jonathan S. Feinstein, an economist whose scholarly interests include creativity
and innovation, has been appointed the John G. Searle Professor of Economics
and Management.
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Jonathan Feinstein appointed
the John G. Searle Professor
Feinstein is the author of “The Nature of Creative Development” (Stanford
University Press, 2006), which presents a model of the process of creative development
through which individuals make creative contributions. The model is based on
empirical study of many individuals across a wide range of fields — the
arts, sciences, humanities, business, social sciences and public policy — including
Virginia Woolf, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Matisse, Mondrian, Edison, John
Maynard Keynes, Rachel Carson, Hannah Arendt and Ray Kroc, as well as contemporaries
Feinstein interviewed. The book has been described by reviewers as “an
important step” in understanding the creative process.
Feinstein’s work in economics focuses on detection, compliance and enforcement.
His work in the area of tax compliance and auditing has set the standard for
the field and transformed the way the United States Internal Revenue Service
and tax authorities around the world analyze compliance data. He has published
many articles in this field in leading economics journals. More recently he has
begun work with the Department of Homeland Security.
Feinstein also studies aging, health and economics. He is the author of a well
known review of the relationship between socioeconomic status and health published
in The Milbank Quarterly.
At the Yale School of Management (SOM), Feinstein is the lead designer for the “Innovator” core M.B.A.
course, one of the eight “Organizational Perspectives” courses that
are central to Yale SOM’s innovative, integrated curriculum, which was
launched in the 2006-2007 academic year. He also helped design and contributed
to the “Careers” core course for first-year M.B.A. students, which
presents an overview of the ways in which careers develop and unfold over the
course of a professional life. As part of the “Careers” course, Feinstein
has initiated a project interviewing Yale SOM alumni about their career paths,
creating a video archive of professional and personal role models for current
Yale SOM students.
Feinstein has been a member of the Yale SOM faculty since 1992, when he was appointed
associate professor. He was promoted to full professor in 1995. He is a professor
by courtesy at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and a
faculty fellow of the Center for Research on Inequalities & the Life Course.
He is also a founding member of the National Bureau of Economic Research program
on the economics of national security. Before coming to Yale, Feinstein was assistant
professor (1987-1990) and associate professor (1990-1992) at the Stanford Graduate
School of Business.
He is a graduate of Stanford University, from which he received a B.A. in economics
and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in his junior year. He received his Ph.D. in
economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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