Sanford Ikeda

Sanford Ikeda

  • Associate Professor of Economics, SUNY Purchase

Sanford Ikeda is an associate professor of economics at the State University of New York, Purchase. He has contributed his expertise on entrepreneurship to the Mercatus Center's Katrina Project.  

Currently serving as president of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, Professor Ikeda has written a book on mixed economies (Dynamics of the Mixed Economy) and authored several articles on entrepreneurial activity and urban planning.

Professor Ikeda earned his PhD in economics from New York University and has previously held academic positions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and California State University at Hayward.

PUBLISHED RESEARCH

Journal Article

The Political, Economic, and Social Aspects of Katrina

This paper examines the resiliency of community recovery following natural disaster.

Mercatus Policy Series
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Power to the Neighborhoods: The Devolution of Authority in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Peter Gordon, Sanford Ikeda | Aug 28, 2007
Professors Sanford Ikeda and Peter Gordon present an innovative idea for recover: allow communities to break away from central municipalities in order to stimulate economic growth. Such a course could be uniquely suited for post-disaster areas like the Gulf Coast.

WORKING PAPERS

Gales of Creative Destruction: Innovative Governance and Entrepreneurial Development in Post-Katrina New Orleans image

Gales of Creative Destruction: Innovative Governance and Entrepreneurial Development in Post-Katrina New Orleans

This working paper on post-Katrina New Orleans looks at the organic growth of cities.

POLICY BRIEFS

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Mercatus on Policy: Power to The Neighborhoods

Professors Ikeda and Gordon explore an innovative idea for recovery in this release of Mercatus on Policy: allow communitites to decentralize in order to stimulate economic growth; a plan that could be uniquely suited for post-disaster areas like the Gulf Coast.