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H. JAMES BROWN is Associate of the
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James Brown was the President and CEO of the Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy, an educational institution dedicated to the study and teaching
of land policy, land economics and taxation from 1996 to 2005. He
was a Professor at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University from 1970 to 1996. During this time he also served as
Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Chairman of the City
and Regional Planning Program, Director of the State, Local and
Intergovernmental Center at Harvard University and Director of the
MIT/Harvard University Joint Center for Urban Studies.
A specialist in land use, housing, and regional economics, Brown
received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Ohio Wesleyan
University (1962), attended the London School of Economics (1963), and
was awarded an M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1967) in economics from Indiana
University. Brown served as a Research Associate at the National Bureau
of Economic Research (1968-1970) prior to his appointment as an
Assistant Professor at Harvard in 1970. He was appointed Full Professor
in 1975 and Director of the Joint Center in 1982.
Brown has edited and published numerous books and articles, including
The State of the Nation’s Housing, an annual review of housing
trends, Microeconomics and Public Policy (1988), and Land Use and
Taxation: Applying the Insights of Henry George (1997).
Brown has worked with a variety of public and private organizations. He
currently serves as a Director of BMC West Corporation and American
Residential Investment Trust. He previously served as a Managing
Partner of Strategic Property Investments, Inc. and as a Director of
Pelican Companies, Inc.. He was a member of the Boston
Mayor’s Advisory Group on the Linkage Between Downtown
Development and Neighborhood Change, the Governor’s Task Force on
Metropolitan Development, and the Boston Chamber of Commerce’s
Technical Committee on the Third Harbor Tunnel. He served on the
Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Government Land Bank. He
was a Fellow of the Urban Land Institute, Vice Chairman of the
Massachusetts section of the American Institute of Planners, and he has
served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Collegiate
Schools of Planning.
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