John Hall Publications

John Hall's Biography

John Hall completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City. After a one year stint at Drexel University in Philadelphia, he joined the Economics Faculty at Portland State University, where he teaches for their programs in Economics and International Studies. He offers courses in Comparative Economics, Economics of Transition, Institutional Economics, and History of Economic Thought. Researching his dissertation in Hungary brought him to closely follow the reform of the planning process through the Decade of the 1980s. Benefiting from short term research support through IREX, and long term research support through the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, he has explored challenges facing a host of Central and East European Countries. When on Sabbatical in Berlin in 1992-3 he started to research and generate a literature on some of the challenges emerging in the eastern region of Germany as part of its transition and reunification programs. In 1994-5, the Fulbright program sent him to University of Zambia for teaching and research, and in 2005 to the University in Jena. In 2006, the Halle Institute for Economic Research offered him an ongoing position as "Research Professor." With interests in Economics and International Studies he has published inquiries that deal with a host of theoretical topics, as well as regions and countries.