Hird, John A.

John A. Hird is Director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley, and has served as Research Fellow at The Brookings Institution and Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He is the author of SUPERFUND: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK (1994), and has published articles in many professional journals such as "American Political Science Review," "Journal of Policy Analysis And Management," "Yale Journal On Regulation," and "S...