Dr. Terence Burnham

Associate Professor

The George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics

Economic Science Institute

Office Location: Beckman Hall 303J

Phone: (714) 744-7847

Email: burnham@chapman.edu

Scholarly Works:: Digital Commons

Education:: University of Michigan, Bachelor of Science
San Diego State University, Master of Science
Harvard University, Ph.D.

Biography

Terry Burnham is an economist who studies the biological and evolutionary basis of human behavior. He has a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University, a Masters from the MIT Sloan School with a concentration in finance. HIs undergraduate degree is in biophysics from the University of Michigan. Prior to Chapman, Terry was a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, the University of Michigan, and the Harvard Business School. His non-academic experiences include working briefly for Goldman, Sachs & Co., being the chief financial officer for Progenics Pharmaceuticals , a start-up biotechnology company, and being the director of portfolio management for Acadian Asset Management, a quantitative equity manager.

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications: Burnham, Terence C., Review of “Genesis by Edward O Wilson.” Journal of Bioeconomics. In press, 2019.; Chaudhuri, Shomesh, Burnham Terence C., Lo, Andrew W., “An Empirical Evaluation of Tax-Loss Harvesting Alpha.” Working Paper SSRN.; Burnham, Terence C., and Phelan, Jay, “Ordinaries. Thomas Kuhn, Adam Smith, and Charles Darwin.” Journal of Bioeconomics. In press, 2019.; Burnham, Terence C., Gakidis, Harry, and Wurgler, Jeffrey, “Negotiating MSCI Country Reclassifications.” Financial Analysts Journal, 2018, 74(1): 77-87.; Burnham, Terence C., “Gender, Punishment, and Cooperation.” Socius, 2018, 4: 1-8.; Baker, Malcolm, Burnham, Terence C., and Taliaferro, Ryan, “Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios.” Financial Analysts Journal, 2017, 73(4): 75-89.; Lenski, Richard E., and Burnham, Terence C., “Experimental Evolution of Bacteria Across 60,000 Generations, and What It Might Mean for Economics and Human Decision-Making.” Journal of Bioeconomics, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-017-9258-7.; Burnham, Terence C., Huang, Samuel, and Lo, Andrew W., “Pricing for Survival in the Biopharma Industry.” Journal of Investment Management, 2017, 15(4): 69–91.; Burnham, Terence C., “She who understands the fruit fly would do more for economics than Adam Smith: introduction to the special issue (on experimental evolution and economics).” Journal of Bioeconomics, 2017, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-017-9268-5.; Burnham, Terence C., et al., “Evolutionary Behavioral Economics.” Chapter 8 in Complexity and Evolution. D. S. Wilson and A. Kirman eds. Cambridge, Mass, MIT Press, 2016.; Burnham, Terence C: "Economics and evolutionary mismatch: humans in novel settings do not maximize." Journal of Bioeconomics, 2016.; Burnham, Terence C: "Public goods with high-powered punishment: high cooperation and low efficiency." Journal of Bioeconomics, 1-15. 2014; Meyer, Andrew, Frederick, Shane, Burnham, Terence C, et al: "Disfluent fonts don’t help people solve math problems." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 144(2): e16. 2015; Rose, M., et al. (2015). "Four steps toward the control of aging: following the example of infectious disease." Biogerontology: 1-11.; Burnham, Terence. C., Aimee Dunlap, and David. W. Stephens. "Experimental Evolution and Economics." SAGE Open, 2015, 5(4).; Burnham, T. C. (2013). Consilience and Economics, comment on Endogenous and Systemic Risk. Endogenous and Systemic Risk. J. Harbaugh and A. Lo, The University of Chicago Press: 105-112.; Burnham, T. C. (2013). "Toward a neo-Darwinian synthesis of neoclassical and behavioral economics." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 90, S113-S127.; 2nd edition of Mean Genes

Dr. Terence Burnham

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