Skip to main navigation Skip to main content
Boston College logo
  • Information For  
    • Students
    • Parents & Guardians
    • Alumni
    • Faculty & Staff
  • Search
  • BC.edu Links
William B. Neenan, S.J.
Menu
Main Nav
William B. Neenan, S.J.
Back Back
Close
  • William B. Neenan, S.J. Society
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • The Early Years
  • The Dean's List
Close
Directory A to Z Listing
Search
Close
Close
  • Students
  • Parents & Guardians
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Staff

BC.EDU LINKS

Boston College
  • Boston College
  • About BC
  • Admission
  • Academics
  • Research
  • Campus Life
  • Jesuit, Catholic

Resources

  • Academic Calendar
  • BC Magazine
  • BC News
  • Directories
  • Webcams
  • Offices, Services, Resources
  • Formation
  • Athletics
  • Global
  • Agora Portal
  • Emergency
  • Jobs at BC
  • Libraries
  • Bookstore
  • Maps & Directions
  • Hours
  • Events
  • BC Dining
Close

Curriculum Vitae

  1. Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • A.B., St. Louis University, 1954
  • M.A., in economics, St. Louis University, 1956
  • S.T.L., in theology, St. Louis University, 1962
  • Ph.D., in economics, University of Michigan, 1966
  • L.H.D. honoris causa, Boston College 2008

Professional Positions

  • Director of numerous seminars and institutes on program budgeting and benefit-cost analysis, 1968-75
  • Co-principal Investigator, National Science Foundation-supported research on Intra-Metropolitan Fiscal Relationships, 1972-1973
  • Senior Research Staff, The Urban Institute, 1972-1973
  • Research Associate, Poverty Institute, University of Wisconsin, Summer 1975, Summer 1976, Summer 1977, Summer 1978, Summer 1979
  • Project Director of Study, "Financing the Regional City in Southeastern Michigan," sponsored by the Metropolitan Fund, 1976-1978
  • Director of Master of Applied Economics Program, University of Michigan, 1975-1978
  • Trustee, Wheeling College, 1976-1979
  • Trustee, Creighton University, 1982-1985
  • Trustee, Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, 1982-2001
  • Trustee, University of Scranton, 1983-1986
  • Trustee, Fordham University, 1984-1990
  • Trustee, Loyola University of Chicago, 1985-1994
  • Trustee, University of San Francisco, 1992-2001
  • Trustee, North Cambridge Catholic High School 2003-
  • Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Professor of Economics and of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1967-1980
  • Gasson Visiting Professor, Boston College, 1979-1980
  • Professor of Economics, Boston College, 1980-
  • Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston College, 1980-1987
  • Academic Vice President & Dean of Faculties, Boston College 1987-98
  • Vice President and Special Assistant to the President 1998-
  • Member, American Economic Association

Publications

Books and Monographs

  • A Normative Evaluation of a Public Health Program (Ann Arbor: Institute of Public Administration), 1967, 95 pp.
  • Political Economy of Urban Areas (Chicago: Markham 1972), 344 pp.
  • Fiscal Interactions in a Metropolitan Area Co-author (Kenneth Greene and Claudia Scott) D.C. Heath, 1974, 265 pp.
  • Editor, Current Issues in Social Security (Ann Arbor: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1976), 117 pp.
  • Co-editor, (Kent Mathewson), Financing the Metropolis (New York: Praeger, 1980), 480 pp.
  • Urban Public Economics (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1981), 313 pp.
  • Co-editor (Jacques van der Gaag and Theodore Tsukahara) The Economics of Health Care (New York: Praeger, 1982), 420 pp.
  • A Normative Evaluation of a Public Health Program (Ann Arbor: Institute of Public Administration), 1967, 95 pp. 
  • Political Economy of Urban Areas (Chicago: Markham 1972), 344 pp.
  • Co-author (Kenneth Greene and Claudia Scott), Fiscal Interactions in a Metropolitan Area (Lexington: D.C. Heath, 1974), 265 pp.
  • Editor, Current Issues in Social Security (Ann Arbor: Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, 1976), 117 pp.
  • Co-editor, (Kent Mathewson), Financing the Metropolis (New York: Praeger, 1980), 480 pp.
  • Urban Public Economics (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1981), 313 pp.
  • Co-editor (Jacques van der Gaag and Theodore Tsukahara) The Economics of Health Care (New York: Praeger, 1982), 420 pp.

Articles, Chapters, and Review

  • "Pension Funds and the Equity Market," Labor Law Journal, August 1956.
  • "Institutional Activity in the Equity Market," Journal of Finance, December 1957.
  • Co-author, "Awareness of Marginal Income Tax Rates among High-Income Taxpayers," National Tax Journal, December 1965.
  • "Non-Economics of Poverty," American Economic Review, May 1968, pp. 542-544.
  • "Fiscal Policy and Investment in Human Capital," Review of Social Economy, March 1970, pp. 60-61.
  • "Suburban-Central City Exploitations Thesis: One City's Tale," National Tax Journal, June 1970, pp. 117-139, reprinted in K. Boulding and M. Pfaff, Transfers in our Urban Economy (Belmont: Wadsworth, 1973).
  • Benefit-Cost Analysis in Nonmarket Decisions," in J. Cohen (ed.), Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Study of Mental Retardation, (Ann Arbor: ISMR, 1971), pp. 51-60.
  • "On Exploitation," National Tax Journal, March 1971, pp 97-100.
  • "Distribution and Efficiency in Benefit-Cost Analysis," Canadian Journal of Economics, May 1971, pp 216-224.
  • "Financing Health, Education, and Welfare Programs in Detriot," State University Study Team, HEW, Public Services Laboratory, Washington, 1972, 19 pp.
  • "Suburban-Central City Exploitation Thesis," National Tax Journal, December 1972, pp. 605-608.
  • Co-Author(John Aikin and Gary Fields), "A Socio-economic Explanation of Demand for Public Goods," Public Finance Quarterly, April 1973, pp. 169-189.
  • "Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Evaluation of Mental Retardation Programs," in P. Davison, F. Clark, and L. Hamerlynck (eds.), Evaluation of Behavioral Programs (Champaign: Research Press, 1974) pp. 1975-1999.
  • "Status of and Prospects for Municipal Pension Funds," in Selma J. Mushkin (ed.), State Aids for Human Services (Washington: Public Services Laboratory, 1974), pp. 211-229.
  • "Distribution of Benefits from Government Services" in F.T. Juster (ed.) The Distribution of Economic Well-Being, Studies in Income and Wealth, Vol. 41 (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1978)
  • "Utility Resdistribution through Government Activity," in K. Boulding (ed.) The Health Industry and Implicit Transfers (New York: Praeger), c. 20 pp.
  • Co-author (Kenneth Greene and Claudia Scott), "Fiscal Incidence in Washington Metropolitan Area," Land Economics, February 1976, pp 12-31.
  • Income Redistribution through Local Government Fiscs," Poverty Institute Discussion Paper 29-75, August 1975, 32 pp.
  • Distributional Impact on State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act," State and Local Government Review, September 1976, 25 pp.
  • "General Revenue Sharing and Redistribution," Review of Social Economy, April 1997 (XXXV), pp. 25-36.
  • "Commuter Taxation for the District of Columbia," Hearings, District Committee of U.S. Congress, May 1976, 10 pp.
  • Co-author (Kenneth Greene and Claudia Scott), "Allocation of Benefits from Fire Protection Services," Journal of Urban Analysis, January 1978 (V), pp 1-35.
  • "Fiscal Relations Between State of Michigan and South-Eastern Michigan," in K. Mathewson and W. Neenan (eds.), Financing the Metropolis (New York: Praeger 1980).
  • Co-author (Marcus E. Ethreidge), "Competition and Cooperation Among Localities," in Urban Economics Development, (Beverly Hills: Sage Publication, 1984) pp. 175-190.
  • "Poverty: Measurement, Trends and Causes," in Thomas M. Gannon, S.J. (ed.) The Catholic Challenge to the American Economy (New York: McMillan, 1987) pp. 107-115.
  • "A Catholic/Jesuit University?" in Michael J. Himes and Stephen J. Pope (eds.) Finding God in All Things (New York: Crossroad Publishing Company, 1996) pp. 229-317.
  • "Sports and Jesuit Universities: A Winning Combination," Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education, Spring 2002.
  • Review of William Worcester, S.J. The Cambridge Companion to the Jesuits in Conversations, Fall 2009.
  • "The Dean's List", 1982-
Back To Top
Back To Top
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Boston College
  • Accessibility
  • Legal
  • Emergency
  • Notice of Nondiscrimination

Copyright © 2025 Trustees of Boston College