Gary D. Lynne Emeritus Professor

Contact

Phone: 402-430-3100
E-mail: glynne1@unl.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, Oregon State University
M.S., Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University
B.S., Agricultural Economics, North Dakota State University

Research Interests

Interests and motivations in conservation to achieve sustainability
Framework and theory development in behavioral and ecological economics

Recent Publications

Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Khatchaturyan, M., Lynne, G.D., and Burbach, M.E. “Walking in the Shoes of Others: Experimental Testing of Dual-Interest and Empathy in Environmental Choice.” Journal of Socio-Economics 41, 5 (October 2012): 642-653.

Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Khachaturyan, M., Burbach, M.E., and Lynne, G.D. “Smiley or Frowney: The Effect of Emotions and Empathy Framing in a Downstream Water Pollution Game.” International Journal of Economics and Finance 5, 3 (2013): 9-23 (also published on-line Feb. 22: see http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ijef/issue/view/736 ).

Reimer, A., Thompson, A., Prokopy, L.S., Arbuckle, J.G., Genskow, K., Jackson-Smith, D.J., Lynne, G., McCann, L., Wright Morton, L., and Nowak, P. “People, Place, Behavior, and Context: A Research Agenda for Expanding Our Understanding of What Motivates Farmers’ Conservation Behaviors.” Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 69, 2 (March/April, 2014): 57A-61A.

Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Burbach, M.E., and Lynne, G.D. “Gender in Environmental Context: An Effect of Property Rights, Fines, Empathy Nudging.” International Journal of Economics and Finance 6, 7 (2014): 11-23.

Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Lynne, G.D., and Burbach, M.E. “Walk in My Shoes: Nudging for Empathy Conservation.” Ecological Economics 118 (2015): 147-158.

Lynne, G.D., Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., and Burback, M.E. “A Theoretical Foundation for Empathy Conservation: Toward Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons.” Review of Behavioral Economics 3 (2016): 245 – 279.

Czap, H.J., Czap, N.V., Burbach, M.E., Lynne, G.D. Farm Bill 2014: An experimental investigation of conservation compliance, Journal of Sustainable Development, 9, 3 (2016): 23-38.

Zhang, Zhenu and Lynne, G. 2016. Is Social Capital Motivated by Self-interest Only? A Case Study on a Well-developed U.S. Rural Community. Universal Journal of Agricultural Research 4,1 (2016): 25-31.

Czap, H.J., Czap, N.V., Burbach, M.E., and Lynne, G.D. “Does Might Make Right? An Experiment on Assigning Property Rights.” Ecological Economics 150 (2018): 229-240.

Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Khachaturyan, M., Burbach, M.E. Comparing female and male response to financial incentives and empathy nudging in an environmental context. Review of Behavioral Economics 5 (2018): 61-84.

Czap, N.V., Czap, H.J., Khachaturyan, M., Burbach, M.E., and Lynne, G.D. “Experiments on Empathy Conservation: Implications for Environmental Policy.” Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 2,2 (2019):71-77.

Lynne, G.D. Metaeconomics: Tempering Excess Greed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, in press ( https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783030506001 )

Lynne, G.D. and Saarinen, P.P. “Metaeconomic Solutions to Dysfunctional Water Markets.” In Altman, Morris (Ed.) Constructing a More Scientific Economics: John Tomer’s Pluralistic and Humanistic Economics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, in process.

Lynne, G.D. Review of Bromley, D. W. “Possessive Individualism: A Crisis of Capitalism.” New York: Oxford University Press, 2019, in Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 95 (2021)

Lynne, G.D. Review of Deneen, P. J. “Why Liberalism Failed.” New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018 (paperback and Kindle ed., 2019), in Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy. 6, 1 (2022): 47-49.

Lynne, G. D. and Czap, N. V. Toward Dual-Interest Theory in Metaeconomics. Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics (2023, in press).