Peter V. Schaeffer

Peter Schaeffer is an economist. He received his first degree (licentiate) in economics from the University of Zurich, Switzerland and the M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Southern California. He was a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Colorado - Denver, and, since 1993, West Virginia University. He also served as a visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH).

His research interests are economic policy, particularly (1) regional and rural economics and development; (2) international labor migration; (3) domestic job and occupational mobility; and (4) natural resource management issues related to amenities, planning, and energy, and their implications for economic development. (5) He is also interested in economic philosophy and the development of economic thought.