
Cameron Elliott GordonAustralian National University | ANU · Research School of Management (RSM)
Cameron Elliott Gordon
PhD Economics
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Introduction
I am an economist who has taught in four disciplines -- economics, finance, public policy/administration and now public health, with public service experience. The common threads in my work are: transportation and infrastructure management, planning and impact analysis; project and program evaluation, especially cost-benefit analysis, and how to make the analysis fit the task at hand; and accounting for the quirks of humanity and society in applied policy analysis, e.g. behavioural economics.
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June 2016 - present
September 2014 - present
September 2003 - January 2006
City University of New York
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- Research Assistant
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This paper explores the identification, use, and preservation of historic roads in the state of New Jersey that primarily travel through public lands. The authors examine in detail the historical significance of several unpaved routes that continue to exist in Burlington County, NJ, as well as discuss various methods that can be used to identify ro...
In October 1949, Aldous Huxley sent a letter to George Orwell, providing a few brief comments on Orwell’s just published novel Nineteen Eighty Four. Huxley had written his own vision of a dystopian future in his 1932 novel, Brave New World, and after complimenting Orwell on his work, made a few brief observations about the differences between the t...
The Industrial Revolution gave rise to a new philosophy of Political Economy called Liberalism. Liberalism in its original form reduced politics and economics to a simple formula of laissez-faire in government policy; electoral democracy in which popular will was determined by majority at the ballot box and exercised through representative institut...
Humanity seeks to learn from its past in order to improve its potential future. Yet the “past” is not something standing there like a mountain, to be surveyed by the relevant professionals. This chapter reviews some major challenges in the study of history generally and the need for interdisciplinary approaches to meet these challenges.
For millennia, the general pattern of world population was one of high-mortality and high fertility, i.e. families with large numbers of offspring (on average) paired with high death rates across the population. This is a gross generalisation, with many exceptions over time and space. The Industrial Revolution changed this pattern irrevocably, with...
Reminiscence is usually sweeter than the actual time lived through at the time. So it is with the “Belle Epoque”, referring to a specific time in French history, but more generally denoting a sort of Indian Summer of European ascendancy in culture, society and economy. Starting in 1870 (1880, 1890 and even 1900 are alternative initial demarcations)...
In one of the great, unintended consequences of history, the Germans, during First World War, arranged to return Vladimir Lenin to his native Russia with the idea of undermining their Eastern enemy. Although history is multi-causal, Lenin did play a singular role in creating a Communist Russia and the Soviet Union. A pariah state during the Interwa...
What is a revolution, anyway? Mao famously said that it was “not a dinner party”, or any other refined and peaceable activity, but “an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another” (Mao Mao, Z. (1967). Quotations from chairman Mao Tse-tung (2nd ed.). Foreign Languages Press., 11). The musician Gil Scott Heron sang “the rev...
In the late 1960s, Buckminster Fuller published a book that captured the imagination of an era: Operating manual for spaceship earth (1968). Though not the first person to use such imagery, Fuller’s vision was the most deeply elaborated, putting forth a story about the human race travelling throughout space on a vessel called “Earth”. This was one...
Civilisation is a term widely used but is also very difficult to define. It can be thought of as a sort of super-culture, the widest and broadest form of culture and social identification, encompassing beliefs, religion, values, language and institutions. Historically, civilisation is considered to be a distinct shift in humanity from more organic...
From the beginning industrialisation was a time of great social change in which society itself was becoming unrecognisable from even the relatively recent past, and the experience of the individual within it, radically altered as well. These changes in turn changed the ideas that permeated society and helped create new secular systems of ideas call...
The Industrial Revolution ushered in many disruptive changes to the world economy, mostly still unfolding. One such development was “imperialism”. Domination of one country over another was nothing new, of course. But industrialisation wrought a new form of colonisation combining now more impersonal State prerogatives with age-old darker human driv...
The Industrial Revolution ushered in what is often referred to as a first age of globalisation. By this is generally meant a large expansion of international trade in goods, along with a concomitant movement of people. Simultaneously, however, financial globalisation burgeoned as well, by which is meant a large increase in the flow of money, both i...
In 1831, the French traveller and writer Alexis de Tocqueville in 1831 wrote about his visits to the US, a country then only 50 years old, but capturing a lot of international notice. He wrote that America was “exceptional”, differing from other nations qualitatively because of its unique origins, national credo, historical origins, and distinctive...
The Roman statesman Cassiodorus is credited with the first use of the term “modern” (“modernus”) in the fifth century C.E. to contrast the Roman Empire’s Christian era with its preceding pagan history. The term then fell into disuse until the seventeenth century when members of the French Academy were debating about whether contemporary culture, de...
The Industrial Revolution gave birth not just to a radical change in material circumstances. It also gave birth to a new intellectual current, based in England, which became known as “Political Economy”. The dramatic changes taking place in the eighteenth and nineteenth century English and European economy and society demanded explanations, and men...
Just after the end of the Cold War, there was much discourse about what the whole episode meant. The obvious conclusion, given the rhetoric and ideology on both sides, was that a great ideological contest had been decided. Capitalism had won. Socialism had lost. Beyond that, time itself was proclaimed by some to have been eliminated with the “end o...
What was the core feature of the Industrial Revolution? A default answer is to say capitalism, and the creation and diffusion of a capitalist system. But Adam Smith, the high theoretician of the changes wrought during this time did not actually use the word “capitalism”; instead, he referred to “commercial society” (Naggar and Naggar in The America...
In 1957, the sociologist Michael Young published a book entitled The Rise of the Meritocracy (The rise of the meritocracy. Transactions Publications, [1957] 1994). In it he imagined what Britain would be like in 2034, writing as if he were an official living in that year and looking back over the cumulative previous decades and attempting to predic...
Although the term “Industrial Revolution” is now a commonplace, it actually has a rather long and interesting history. Its first use is as early as 1799, when a French envoy to Berlin wrote that his country had entered upon one (Landes in The British industrial revolution: An economic perspective (2nd ed.). Westview Press, 1999). Its meaning in thi...
When people think of the Industrial Revolution, the part that seems revolutionary is the technical change that accompanied it, especially in England. This chapter considers the role that technology played in industrialisation and the impact that it had on society more broadly.
Economic modernisation has both quantitative and qualitative dimensions. The major measure of its quantitative aspect is real GDP per capita, indicating the market value of total output across a given population. The qualitative dimension of economic change is generally captured by the structure of the economy, a term that indicates how output prod...
These slides provide a detailed overview of the travel time savings and agglomeration and accessiblity benefits of fast rail (generally 130 kph to 250 kph) with some discussion also of High Speed Rail (HSR) (above 250 kph); and of the capital, operating and maintenance costs of rail speed improvements and associated staging and policy issues.
This paper explores and provides an understanding of how B-to-B relationships can be better understood by incorporating a Social Capital (SC) framework. It argues that SC dimensions (i.e., relational, cognitive
and structural), underpin alliances that are salient to International Business (IB). A synthesis of the literature on B-to-B SC and loyalty...
Covid-19 a przyszłość cywilizacji zachodniej Cywilizacja jest pod wieloma względami apoteozą ludzkiego impulsu społecznego, dobrego i złego, a cokolwiek się stanie, era koronawirusa głęboko ukształtuje zachodnią wersję tej wspólnej kultury. W artykule omówiono sposób, w jaki społeczność ludzka ukształtowała ludzkie choroby i vice versa, a także prz...
I am currently writing and researching this book on an interdisciplinary of the world economy since 1800, already well in progress with continued development over the next sixteen months. This is an interdisciplinary work, covering many different dimensions of history, economy and society, and I am inviting any and all comments and suggestions, inc...
The Industrial Revolution ushered in many disruptive changes to the world economy, mostly still unfolding. One such development was “imperialism.”
Domination and exploitation of one group’s territory by another is nothing new, of course. Indeed, the rawest form of such domination, “colonialism,” was practiced by the ancient Romans and Greeks, well...
This is very brief primer and overview on the academic literature on management and leadership, focusing mainly on the latter. It organizes the discussion along terms of Who, What, Why and How leadership is manifested.
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to review the recent history of skill needs and training frameworks in the transportation and logistics (T&L) sector, discussing the evolution of training and educational methodologies and introduces the social capital concept as a useful extension to current approaches. Design/ methodology/ approach: This pape...
The theme explored in this play is how technocracy and war make strange, and contradictory, bedfellows. War is one of the most non-rational of human enterprises. Yet the industrial and technological scale of modern war requires critical masses of expertise and managerial skill which are based on a premise that the world is linear, rational, and man...
(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BK4V4H2) In 2004 Shanghai offered an intriguing mix of new and old, of past and present, of China and the West, and it was a mix that was in constant ferment. It was a sort of ‘half-and-half’ place and the balance was fascinating to watch and experience. This book offers a snapshot, in the form of prose-poem like descr...
This little book is a short meander through Zen thought and practice intertwined with a discussion of the novella by James Hilton about an eccentric Oxford don titled "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," interwoven with a discussion of James Hilton's short but remarkable life and the durability of the "Chips" book in its various stage and screen incarnations. I,...
This is an op-ed piece in the New York Daily News, April 18, 2018 in which we estimated that if New York State legalized and taxed marijuana production, the revenue potential could be in the billions, not millions, of dollars. https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/fiscal-windfall-legalizing-pot-new-york-article-1.3939607?cid=bitly
There has been an explosive growth in various types of new transportation options and fees over the last 15 years. With growing structural deficits in state Departments of Transportation (DOTs) and stagnant sources of federal revenue, there has been a rapid deployment of new and proposed road use charges to fill these funding gaps. Cities have real...
New transportation projects are typically subjected to economic analysis to assess whether such investments represent a net economic gain or loss to society. However once projects are in place and in need of major reconstruction and rehabilitation, such analysis is often foregone. However the actual process and staging of rebuilding of a particular...
Even though government of Indonesia invests billions of rupiah to tackle deforestation, its effectiveness has been questionable. This study analyses changes in rates of forest cover in Indonesia and their association with forestry expenditures (FE) spent by the provincial governments. Based on 2007 to 2010 data, linear multiple regression results i...
Many trips, if not most, begin and end, on local roads. Thus there is a system aspect to such 18 roads in the sense that local streets can have spillover benefits and costs for larger trips that use the 19 total road network. Yet curbs and sidewalks and local streets are typically almost entirely locally 20 provided in the United States. There are...
Instead of a debate about whether the automobile is good or bad, this article will argue that it is more useful to carefully consider how the automobile should live in its natural environment in a way that is compatible with human development. We should, I will argue, now develop a framework to civilize the automobile. Civilization is probably hard...
Taken together it seems certain that costs to ship goods, services and people, will continue to fall and that average speeds of travel will increase. The location of industries and residences will change as well. But choice of modes – air, sea and surface -- will likely continue to be broadly similar to what we have now. What will change radically...
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to critically interrogate the notion of 'success' in sports sponsorship and to develop a framework to better understand the nature and appropriateness of potential concepts and related metrics of sponsorship impacts. Design/Method/Approach: This is conceptual paper that examines the existing literature on spo...
The focus in transport and logistics training is often on highly specialised skills. However, management and leadership is a key human resource that is often overlooked yet just as vital. What sorts of public policies might be needed to develop such capacity? This paper begins with a discussion of the meaning of management and leadership; presents...
Using current evidence from the peer-reviewed literature, this research seeks to develop a conceptual framework in which to qualify and quantify the potential positive and negative health impacts of land use changes resulting from the CanberraLight Rail development.
Any organisation requires a formal structure of authority, rules and processes to be able to function and carry out intended purposes within the bounds of ethical propriety, public law and private contractual obligations. Governance is a broad term that refers to and encompasses the design and operation of these elements. The term corporate governa...
Sourcing refers to individuals and organisations that an entity turns toward to obtain the goods and/or services it needs to make and provide final outputs. In a corporate context specifically, sourcing refers to the organisation of procurement of inputs from suppliers within and outside the firm and their relationship with the firm's overall suppl...
Risk in transport and supply chain
entry in:
Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council (TLISC) Australia (2015). Operational Concepts Guide
Technology is a broad term that can encompass many things. Technology can either be 'hard' or 'soft'. Hard technology is anything that is physical in nature, such as machinery. Soft technology generally refers to anything that is intangible, such as a process, or an idea. Some technology straddles those boundaries, such as software, which is based...
Transportation policy has long been concerned with achieving direct outcomes such as maximum mobility, reduced unit travel times and increased access, and indirect outcomes such as regional economic development. More recently a distinct concern has arisen regarding equity and justice in transportation, in a very broad sense a concern about whether...
This is an unpublished book review.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) of New York State is the largest provider of mass transit services in the United States. However much of this system, particularly the fixed transit rail road networks, was built decades ago. Only recently has the MTA begun considering extensions to this network. New Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is current...
Transit infrastructure in the US has often been unable to cope with the shifting population changes and development of once suburban areas, some times even those within dense urban agglomerations. This paper focuses on access to transit and the social equity and environmental dimensions of the transit system in New York City’s borough of Staten Isl...
This is a set of lecture notes from a Masters level class I taught on public economics for Public Administration students. I have refined and edited these to make them suitable for more general use.
These are lecture notes I used when teaching undergraduate personal finance at the City University of New York. They have been edited and refined for more general use.
This is a set of lecture notes, developed for an intermediate undergraduate corporate finance class taught by me at the City University of New York. I have refined and edited these for more general use.
This a set of lecture notes for undergraduate corporate finance students, refined and edited and based on lectures for an introductory course at the City University of New York
This article critically examines the existing literature on sports sponsorship and collates the various measures of success that have been used. These measures are ranked and assessed in terms of their meaningfulness to the sponsor and, where applicable, to those involved in what is being sponsored.
This is a draft paper that reviews some of the attitudes that existed during the Middle Ages on forgery. The paper challenges the idea that Medieval people were accepting of forgery and suggests that they had more mixed views on the subject.
NOTE: THE UPLOADED VERSION IS THE TRB CONFERENCE PAPER ON WHICH THE FINAL ARTICLE -- FORTHCOMING -- IS BASED. THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO. User fees have long been seen as an efficient financing mechanism because beneficiaries of services pay for the benefits received. This is especially applicable to public services with commercial...
User fees have long been seen as an efficient financing mechanism because beneficiaries of services pay for the benefits received. This point of view is especially applicable to public services with commercial aspects and in situations for which links between consumption and price are relatively easy to make. However, road pricing, such as tolls, c...
Transportation policy has long been concerned with the achievement of direct outcomes (e.g., maximum mobility, reduced unit travel times, increased access) and with indirect outcomes (e.g., regional economic development). More recently, a distinct concern has arisen about equity and justice in transportation and, in a broad sense, about whether all...
This paper conducts a preliminary analysis of detailed user data of bike share programs in three US cities: New York, Boston and Chicago. Usage shares by gender and location are mapped and discussed. Possible reasons for usage differences are presented and planning and policy implications are offered. Many more men than women use bike share in all...
In this paper, we examine the movement of container freight in, out and around the third largest maritime port in the United States and the use of toll facilities by these freight movements. Understanding how road pricing affects freight activity is of significant interest to transport planners, port operators and commercial interests with regards...
This paper examines the potential benefits and costs of the imposition of a Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC) in the European Union (EU), which commenced in 2007. The analysis begins with a review of the justification, formulation, design and implementation of the EU CPC; examines the available information on the impacts that the CPC is...
In 2003, The European Union issued Directive 2003/59 requiring all professional bus, coach and truck drivers to hold a “Driver Certificate of Professional Competence” (CPC). Even in the EU the benefits and costs of this paper are not entirely clear, though policymakers clearly believed this to be a beneficial move. This paper conducts a preliminari...
This paper examines two theories of the current financial epoch referred to as the 'subprime crisis.' One theory is rooted in a tradition of policy activism which holds that the failure of the financial system was fundamentally driven by institutional faults, especially in private sector risk management and public sector regulatory functions. Refer...
This report looks to examine the potential to develop and finance various flood mitigation strategies to address the risk in the Eastern Shore of Staten Island.
This paper will focus explicitly on the global car-sharing industry. Car-sharing (e.g. Zipcar in the US) is a growing industry which maintains vehicle fleets for very short-term use. It is an extension of the car rental industry but different from that in the nature of the terms and leases offered and the nature of the final user. Most car-share cu...
Few urban areas are as economically and socially integrated as the New York City borough of Staten Island and the New Jersey communities of Bayonne and Jersey City just across the Hudson River. These strong links are illustrated by travel patterns across a north-south corridor from Staten Island up into Bayonne. Yet transit planning and development...
The New South Wales (NSW) government created the Sydney Metro Authority to design, build and operate a completely separate underground Metro rail system to supplement the existing public transport network in Sydney. By the time the NSW government abruptly cancelled the entire Metro project in early 2010, the authority had conceived and designed a c...
One the prime engines of transport financing in the US has been fuel taxes. Yet States with a high proportion of urbanization tend to raise less revenue through that means because of lower fuel use due to the higher mass transit use. Nowhere is this more of an issue than in New York State, home to New York City where half of the transit trips in th...
A standard approach to economics education at the undergraduate level is simplification and summarisation. The idea is that economics is a complicated subject which must be boiled down for university students to allow them a grasp of fundamentals that can then serve as a basis for more advanced study of the field’s various complexities, controversi...
Australia is facing a potentially huge need for investment in infrastructure investment in the coming decades to deal with growing population, shifting economic and demographic patterns, and adaptation to sea level rise and other effects of climate change. There is, however, an institutional challenge that is making the necessary financing and inve...
An "Intelligent Transportation System" (ITS) is a broad term encompassing a wide-range of individual technologies, from simple "smart signs" to real-time electronic monitoring and management of traffic flows. The use of such technologies is often touted as a way of easing traffic congestion, increasing safety, improving environmental quality, and e...
Traditional program evaluation of transport investment tends to focus on relatively narrow measures of market benefit (e.g. a transport project's reductions in travel-times that will be generated for travelers). In many cases benefit measures such as these are more than sufficient, especially when considering increments to existing transport and ot...
The socio-cultural and economic distributional impacts of transportation projects are key elements of both individual project decisions and transportation policymaking. One of these dimensions, transportation equity, roughly defined as the relative distribution of benefits and burdens of transportation investments, goods and services, is a growing...
Most markets are partitioned into segments that can be quite different from one another. In other words most markets consist of structures that make up a mosaic which add up to one rather than being a unified entity that acts as one. Market microstructure -- the study of these marekt substructures and their effects on market outcomes -- is applied...
The article explores inter-firm joint actions, both short and long term, using a social capital framework.
The study reviews the literature on social capital generally and its application to inter-firm (or B2B)
relationships specifically, finding these applications quite limited at present. The paper then
conceptualizes a typology of joint actions...
Chapter 8 is set within a theoretical framework of transport theory founded on urban economics, planning, and place theory. Australia's unique geography of widely separated capital cities and diffuse but congested urban agglomerations have a profound effect on the nature and cost of providing transport infrastructure to both integrate cities and pr...
In 1898, the five counties of Richmond, New York, Bronx, Queens, and Kings came together in a
consolidation which created the five boroughs of New York City. Staten Island went from being an
independent county in the State of New York to a interdependent borough of the new City of New York, as
did the other counties. The consolidation offered a lot...
This paper analyzes the current accessibility of New York City region train stations for disabled riders. Utilizing GIS and data analysis, this paper finds that high income communities are better served by accessible stations in the suburbs than those in low income urban communities, despite a higher percentage of disabled and elderly population in...
Congestion pricing in cities is seen as desirable from an economic point of view but difficult politically. A variety of revenue and cost-sharing arrangements have been proposed as ways of creating ballot-box winning coalitions where 'winners' outvote losers from a self-interest point of view. However, these proposals generally ignore the roles of...
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I have combed the behavioural economics and corporate governance literature pretty extensively and there seems to be a gap here on the intersection between the two but I'm very interested in hearing from others on key articles, ideas etc. they think might be useful.