Fields of Interest: Urban and Regional Economics; History of Thought; Public Finance; Radical Political Economy
Recent Publications:
1) Urban and Regional
Nebiyou Tilahun, Joseph Persky, Jaeyong Shin, Moira L Zellner, "Childhood Poverty, Extended Family and Adult Poverty," Journal of Poverty, December 2021.
Tilahun, N., Persky, J., Shin, J., & Zellner, M. (2021). "Place Prosperity and the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty," Review of Regional Studies, 51:2, 208-220
Ryan Gallagher and Joseph Persky, “Heterogeneity of Birth-State Effects on Internal Migration,” Journal of Regional Science, 60:3, 2019.
Ryan Gallagher, Robert Kaestner, and Joseph Persky “The Geography of Family Differences and Intergenerational Mobility,” Journal of Economic Geography, 19:3, 2019, 589–618.
2) History of Economic Thought
Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky, "Anna Doyle Wheeler: Gender Equality and the Need for a Cooperative Economic System," Feminist Economics, forthcoming.
Joseph Persky, "John Stuart Mill, Virtues and the Laboring Classes, with Notes on McCloskey," Journal of Contextual Economics--Schmollers Jahrbuch, July, 2020.
Joseph Persky, “Von Thünen’s Political Economy of Justice,” Review of Political Economy, January 2020.
Joseph Persky, Mill’s Socialism Re-Examined,” Utilitas, September, 2019.
Books:
Kirsten Madden and Joseph Persky, Building a Social Science: 19th Century British Cooperative Thought (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024).
Joseph Persky, The Political Economy of Progress: John Stuart Mill and Modern Radicalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
Joseph Persky, Daniel Felsenstein, and Virginia Carlson, Does “Trickle Down” Work? Economic Development Strategies and Job Chains in Local Labor Markets (Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004)
Wim Wiewel and Joseph Persky (eds.) Suburban Sprawl: Private Decisions and Public Policy (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2002).
Joseph Persky and Wim Wiewel, When Corporations Leave Town: The Costs and Benefits of Metropolitan Job Sprawl (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2000).
Joseph Persky, The Burden of Dependency: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992).
For a full list of publications:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph-Persky-2/publications