Neil Alper

Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator
Labor Economics
313 Lake Hall
(617)373-2839
alper@neu.edu

Neil O. Alper is Associate Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator in the Department of Economics at Northeastern University. His teaching and research interests are in the area of applied microeconomics, including culture, crime and labor. Prior to joining Northeastern in 1979, he held a position in the Department of Economics and the Center for Business and Economics Research at the University of Tennessee. The Tennessee Dept. of Employment Security, the U.S. Dept. of Labor, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts have funded his research. He has articles in Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, Journal of Cultural Economics, Regional Science Review, National Tax Journal, and Review of Regional Studies. His books include: Artists in the Work Force: Employment and Earnings, 1970-1990; Art Work: The Artist in the New England Labor Market; and Economics of Crime: Theory and Practice; with chapters in: The Arts and the Public Purpose (forthcoming); Cultural Economics; and The Economics of Cultural Industries. Professor Alper's B.A. is in economics from the S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics are from the University of Pittsburgh. He is Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Association for Cultural Economics International.

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