Thomas Nesslein

Fields of Interest

Political economy of the capitalist welfare state, especially relating to urban and housing policy issues.

Research

Dr. Nesslein is the author of more than two dozen articles and book reviews published in Urban Studies, Kyklos, Journal of Regional Science, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research, the Encyclopedia of Public Administration and Public Policy, the Encyclopedia of Housing, and Scandinavian Studies. In 1987 Dr. Nesslein received the Donald Robertson Memorial Prize for the best article published in Urban Studies during that year, and the following year he received a similar award for the best scholarly article in Scandinavian Housing and Planning Research.

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington
M.A., Economics, University of Missouri
International Graduate School, University of Stockholm 1975-76

Courses Taught

Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, International Economics

Personal

Grew up in the suburbs of St. Louis, B.A. (Economics) 1970 University of Missouri - St. Louis.   U.S. Air Force, June 1970 - May 1974. Accounting & Finance, Luke AFB, AZ.  Returned to University of Missouri - St. Louis for M.A. (economics) 1974 -1975.  

September 1975, entered a special graduate program in economic policy at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.  Fall 1976 - July 1978, Researcher at the National Swedish Institute for Building Research.  Returned to U.S. and in was an instructor in economics at Central Michigan University for three years and then one year at Virginia Military Institute.  Then fall, 1984 I entered the Ph.D. program at University of Washington - Seattle and finished in 1992.  Hired at UW- Green Bay in 1996 in Urban and Regional Studies Program and then moved to CSB in 2021.