Steven W. Popper
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Education
Overview
Biography
Steven Popper is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. As associate director of the RAND Science and Technology Policy Institute (1996–2001), Popper provided research and analytic support to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and other agencies of the Executive Branch. He is currently leading RAND's first major project in Israel on long-term energy strategies and is the lead author of Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future: Near-Term Decisions from a Strategic Perspective (2009). He coauthored the flagship study of the RAND Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis (2003), which provides a new methodological framework for decisionmaking under profound uncertainty that been applied to an expanding set of policy issues. His research also focuses on regional economic development and international economics. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, serves on the Policy Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Popper received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Strategy under uncertainty
- Computer-assisted reasoning
- Energy strategy
- Science and technology-based regional development
- Innovation adaptation
Selected Publications
Robert Klitgaard and Paul C. Light, eds., High-Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives, RAND Corporation (MG-256), 2005
Steven W. Popper et al., "Shaping the Future," Scientific American, 292(4), 2005
Somi Seong et al., Strategic Choices in Science and Technology: Korea in the Era of a Rising China, RAND Corporation (MG-320), 2005
Robert J. Lempert et al., Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative Long-Term Policy Analysis, RAND Corporation (MR-1626), 2004
Languages
Hungarian, Russian, GermanEconomics
Recent Projects
- Strategies for use of natural gas in Israel
- Science and technology-based regional economic development in Mexico City
- Assessing market creation as a policy tool for transformational change
- Measuring the outcomes of the BK21 science and technology development program in Korea
- Alternative science and technology policies for Korea
Selected Publications
Steven W. Popper, Robert J. Lempert, David G. Groves, and Steven C. Bankes, "A General, Analytic Method for Generating Robust Strategies and Narrative Scenarios," Management Science, 2006
Steven W. Popper, Robert J. Lempert and Steven C. Bankes, Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis, RAND Corporation (MG-1626), 2003
Steven W. Popper, Somi Seong, Strategic Choices in Science and Technology: Korea in the Era of a Rising China, RAND Corporation (MG-320-KISTEP), 5
Steven W. Popper, "Adapting Social Security Policy for the Long Term," John Brademus Center for the Study of Congress
Steven W. Popper, Robert J. Lempert, in Robert Klitgaard and Paul C. Light, "High Performance Government for an Uncertain World," High Performance Government: Structure, Leadership, Incentives, :113-135
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