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James W. Meehan Jr.
Sabbatical: 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2009
Herbert E. Wadsworth Professor of Economics
Economics


Office: Diamond 373
Phone: 207-859-5237
Fax: 859-5229
Email: jwmeehan@colby.edu

Mailing Address:
5237 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, Maine 04901-8852

Semester Schedule
Areas of Expertise:
  • Anti-trust policy
  • Economics of industry
  • Economics of organizations, especially corporate organizations
  • Economics of professional baseball
  • Mergers, takeovers, leveraged buy-outs, vertical integration, regulation
  • Economics of higher education
  • Alleged price-fixing among colleges and universities with overlapping admissions pools
  • Racial discrimination in the market for baseball cards
  • Origin of the reserve clause in baseball
    • Current Research

    Industrial Organization
    Antitrust Policy
    Regulated Industries
    The Economics of Organizations

    Current Project

    Election to the Hall of Fame and the effect on baseball card prices.

    Vitae

    Ph.D., Boston College (Economics) 1967Mbr> B.A., St. Vincent College (Economics) 1962