Professor Thomas Romer
Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
Thomas Romer is Professor of Politics and Public Affairs and Director of the Research Program in Political Economy at Princeton University. His research explores the interaction of the market and nonmarket forces that influence the allocation of economic resources. This includes such topics as land use regulation, campaign finance, financial regulation, and the political economy of redistribution. A major focus of his work has involved the financing of public schools and the politics and economics of local governments’ taxation and spending behaviour. He has also written on the savings and loan debacle of the 1980s in the US.
During his stay at the US Studies Centre, he is working on a project that draws on that work and goes on to examine the political foundations of the current financial crisis. He will also give a talk about his ongoing research on the political economy of education finance.
