HOME PAGE FOR JOSHUA FRANK
ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT
Telephone: 607-753-4108
email: frankj@cortland.edu
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Besides working at SUNY Cortland, I am executive director of FIREPAW, the Foundation for Interdisciplinary Research and Education Promoting Animal Welfare. At FIREPAW, we conduct research and education programs aimed at improving animal welfare. Check out the FIREPAW website.
Also Check out Razor’s Edge Publishing. I highly recommend their newly released novel Not for Public Consumption.
Before coming to SUNY
I received my Ph.D. in ecological economics from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. I did my MBA coursework at the
Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal Articles
Frank, J. (2007). Meat as a Bad Habit: positive feedback and lock-in for the consumption
of meat. Review of Social Economy, in press.
Frank, J & Carlisle-Frank, P (2007). Analysis of programs to reduce
overpopulation of companion animals:
do adoption and low-cost spay/neuter programs merely cause substitution
of sources? Ecological Economics, May.
Frank, J &
Frank, J. (2005). Process attributes of goods, ethical considerations and implications for animal products. Ecological Economics, 58: 538-547.
Frank, J. (2005). Technological lock-in, positive institutional feedback, and research on laboratory animals, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 16(4):557-575.
Frank, J. (2004). An Interactive Model of Human and Companion Animal Dynamics: The Ecology and Economics of Dog Overpopulation and the Human Costs of Addressing the Problem, Journal of Human Ecology, 32(1) 107-130.
Frank, J. (2004). The Role of Radical Animal Activists as Information Providers to Consumers, Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal, 2(1).
Carlisle-Frank, P., Frank, J., and Nielsen, L. (2004). Selective Battering of the Family Pet,
Anthrozoös 17 (1), 26-41.
Frank, J. (2003). Natural Selection, Rational Economic Behavior, and Alternative Outcomes of the Evolutionary Process, Journal of Socio-Economics, 32(6), December, 601-622.
Frank, J. (2002). A Constrained Utility Alternative to Animal Rights. Environmental Values, 11:49-62.
Frank, J. (2002). The Actual Contribution and Potential Contribution of Economics to Animal Welfare Issues. Society and Animals, 10(4).
Frank, J. (1999). Applying memetics to financial markets: do markets evolve towards efficiency. Journal of Memetics, 3(2).
Academic Conferences Presentations
“The Social Construction of Market Value and its
Application to Labor Markets” presented at ICAPE (an umbrella
organization of Pluralistic Economics associations) conference, June 2007,
“Explaining labor markets in the popular arts:
Superstar Phenomenon or Recommendation Markets?” presented at ICAPE (an
umbrella organization of Pluralistic Economics associations) conference, June
2007,
“Framing bias or social constructionism? How does framing affect environmental
valuation?” Presented at the
“Free Trade, Ethics, and Information: Reconciling International Trade with
National Ethical Standards”.
Presented at the “Globalization and its Discontents”, June
2007,
“Perverse Outcomes of Intense Competition in the
Popular Arts and its Implications for Product Quality”, presented at the
Third European Workshop on Applied Cultural Economics, June 2007,
“Who is a
‘terrorist?’ Language and the case of
domestic ‘terrorism’ ” presented at: The Language of
Violence: Thinking Critically about War and Peace, November 2007,
“Discrimination by insurance companies based on dog
breed: Valid financial risk or irrational overreaction?” American Sociological Association 2005 Conference, August,
“Ownership of companion animals
versus guardianship”. American Sociological
Association 2005 Conference, August,
“A Cross Program
Statistical Analysis of Spay/Neuter and Adoption Programs to Reduce Dog and Cat
Overpopulation,” International Society of Anthrozoology
(ISAZ) Conference, July, 2005,
“Selective Battering of the Family Pet”, Linking Violence: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Relationship Between Violence Against Animals and Humans, University College of Cape Breton, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, May, 2004, Sydney, Nova Scotia
“The Role of the ALF as Information
Providers to Consumers.” Animal Liberation
Conference, April 2004,
“Animals in Economics”, United States Society
for Ecological Economics (USSEE) 2003 Conference, May,
“The Housing Market for Renters with Companion
Animals: Are Markets Efficient? ”
“Progress in Efforts to Reach a
‘No-Kill’ Nation”, American Sociological Association 2003
Conference, August,
“Attitudes toward Companion Animal
Adoption and Contextual Factors Relating to Abandonment”, American
Sociological Association 2003 Conference, August,
Frank, J. & Carlisle-Frank, P. (2001) Conflicting Attitudes and Social Dissonance: Why mixed messages
lead people to abuse and abandon their companion animal. Diversity and Rights: Confronting Anthropocentric Definitions of Community Session, Society for the Study of Social Problems Conference.
Frank, J. (2001). Interdisciplinary Research in Economics: Companion Animal Dynamics and Welfare and the Evolution of Economic Ideas. Working Boundaries Conference, February 2001.
Note: I have lengthy list of presentations at non-academic/professional conferences, TV and radio appearances, and non-academic articles that are not detailed here
Educational Background
PhD in Ecological Economics, May,
2001, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
MBA, June, 1993,
BA in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, June, 1987, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Grants and Research Contracts Received (not comprehensive)
* The Toby Fund 2000, 2002, and 2004 (for separate research projects)
* Maddie’s Fund 2002-2006 (multiple projects)
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* In Defense of Animals 2004