William A. Fischel

Economist, Dartmouth College

Zoning & Land Use * Property Taxes * Local Government * School Finance

William A. Fischel

Bill Fischel has taught economics at Dartmouth College since 1973, and served as Vice Chair of the Department of Economics from 1986-91. Dr. Fischel is also a Faculty Associate at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has taught at the Vermont Law School, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of California at Davis.

• Dr. Fischel's is one of the world's leading authorities on zoning, land-use and property rights. His book The Economics of Zoning Laws: A Property Rights Approach to American Land Use Controls (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985) is a classic in the field of the economics of zoning. His most recent book is Regulatory Takings: Law, Economics, and Politics (Harvard University Press, 1995).
• Fischel has published more than 50 articles on urban economics, zoning, planning, school finance and public finance in leading professional journals such as the National Tax Journal, the Journal of Urban Economics, the Journal of Economic Literature, the Journal of the American Planning Association and the Journal of Legal Studies.
• Professor Fischel speaks regularly on land use and public finance issues and, in the past year, has given presentations to the National Research Council, the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the National Tax Association, New York University Law School, the Ethan Allen Institute (Vermont) and The Buckeye Institute (Ohio).
• Dr. Fischel served on the Town of Hanover Zoning Board from 1987 to 1997, acting as chair from 1993 to 1997.
• He is also on the editorial boards of the Eastern Economic Journal, Land Economics, and the electronic journal Planning and Markets.
• Bill received his B.A. in Economics from Amherst College in 1967 and his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1973.