Board directors McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, 1984-1992. Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1953-1962. Member American Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, Econometric Society.
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman, American economics educator. University Bristol fellow, 1968-1969; Fulbright lecturer, Madrid, 1972; Science Center Berlinfellow, 1975, 79, 80; Rockefeller Foundation Visiting scholar, 1985. Board directors McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, 1984-1992. Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1953-1962. Member American Economic Association, Royal Economic Society, Econometric Society.
Background
Sherman, Roger was born on September 10, 1930 in Jamestown, New York. Son of Claire Blanchard and Margaret Gertrude (Burke) Sherman.
Education
Career
- Manager manufacturing control International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, New York City, 1956-1962. Assistant professor, associate professor, professor University Virginia, Charlottesville, 1965-1972, Brown Forman professor economics, since 1982, chairman department economics, 1982-1990. Visiting scholar Oxford University, 1987, Sydney University, 1988.
Works
- The Regulation of Monopoly
- This study shows how to develop ideal policies when monopoly must be relied upon in place of competition and it explains why it will be difficult to induce monopolies to pursue such policies.
- Oligopoly: an empirical approach
- Book by Sherman, Roger