RICHARD P. TAUB, Chairman
Urban communities, rural communities, economic development,
entrepreneurship, and Indian (India) studies. Field work.

(773) 702-7927
rpt2@uchicago.edu


Books:

  • There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (with William Julius Wilson) New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
  • Doing Development in Arkansas: Using Credit to Create Opportunity for Entrepreneurs Outside the Mainstream, Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2004.
  • Community Capitalism, Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1988.
  • Entrepreneurship in India's Small-Scale Industries (with Doris L. Taub), Riverdale, Md.: The Riverdale Company, 1989.
  • Paths of Neighborhood Change (with D. Garth Taylor and Jan D. Dunham), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
  • American Society in Tocqueville's Time and Today (co-editor with Doris L. Taub), Chicago: Rand McNally and Co., 1974.
  • Bureaucrats Under Stress: Administrators and Administration in an Indian State, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

Articles:

  • "Public Policy Research: Building Bridges to the Community" in Forum for Honors, a publication of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Summer 1988.
  • "Urban Voluntary Associations, Locality Based and Externally Induced" (with George Surgeon, Sara Lindholm, Phyllis Betts Otti, and Amy Bridges) in American Journal of Sociology, September, 1977.

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