Specializations:

Quantitative Economic History, Behavioral Economics, Business Cycles, Labour Economics, Economic Development, Post-Keynesian Economics

Publications:

I've published a number of books and over 50 scholarly papers. Currently, I have a number of research projects on the go. For details, please see my CV.

Selected recent published and forthcoming articles:

• Morris Altman, " The Economics of High Wage Competitive Labor Markets", M.E. Sharpe Publishers, Armonk, New York (forthcoming 2007)
• Morris Altman, Handbook of Contemporary Behavioural Economics: Foundations and Developments. M.E. Sharpe Publishers, Armonk, New York (2005)
• Morris Altman, "Behavioural Economics, Rational Inefficiencies, Fuzzy Sets, and Public Policy," Journal of Economics Issues, 34 (3), pp.1-24.
• Morris Altman, "Workers Cooperatives as an Alternative Competitive Organizational Form," Advances in the Economic analysis of Participatory and labor-Managed Firms, (2005)
• Morris Altman, "Reconciling Altruistic, Moralistic, and Ethical Behaviour with the Rational Economic Agent and Competitive Markets," Journal of Economics Psychology, vol. 26: 732-757 (2005)
• Morris Altman and Louise Lamontagne, “On the Natural Intelligence of Women in a World of Constrained Choice: How the Feminization of Clerical Work Contributed to Gender Pay Equality in Early Twentieth Century Canada,” Journal of Economic Issues, 2004 (forthcoming). 
• Morris Altman, “Staple Theory and Export-Led Growth: Constructing Differential Growth,” Australian Economic History Review, 2004 (forthcoming). 
• Morris Altman and Louise Lamontagne, “Gender, Human Capabilities and Culture Within the Household Economy: Different Path to Socio-Economic Well-Being?,” International Journal of Social Economics, 2004 (forthcoming). 
• Morris Altman, “Economic Theory, Public Policy and the Challenge of Innovative Work Practices,” Economic and Industrial Democracy: An International Journal, Vol. 23 2002, pp. 271-290. 
• Morris Altman, “Economic Growth and Income Equality: Implications of a Behavioral Model of Economic Growth for Public Policy,” Canadian Public Policy 24: S87-S118.

Other:

ACADEMIC AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS
 

• Elected Fellow, World Innovation Foundation (F.W.I.F.) 
• Visiting Scholar, Cornell University and Duke University,2000-01 Academic Year. 
• Visiting Scholar, Standford University, Stanford, California, 1995-96 academic year 
• Halbert Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Department of Economics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, February 1993-July 1993. 
• The Encyclopedia of Political economy Award for Writing and Reserach Excellence (1997) 
• Helen Potter Award in Social Economics presented by the Association for Social Economics for the best article published in 1992 in the Review of Social Economy, Morris Altman, "The Economics of Exogenous Increases in Wage Rates in a Behavioral/X-Efficiency Model of the Firm." 
• Elected to membership in the Newcomen Society of the United States (for ongoing reserach in economic history, June 20, 1984). 
• Newcineb Award presented by the Newcomen Society of North America at McGill University (May 1981) for Master Thesis, "Economic Aspects of Agricultural Productivity and the Seigniorial System of Land Tenure in Quebec, 1780-1850."