Research Interests for James T. Hamilton

James T. Hamilton is the Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science at Duke University. His book All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News (Princeton Press, 2004) examines how economic forces affect media content. He is also the author of Channeling Violence: The Economic Market for Violent Television Programming, which won the Shorenstein Center’s Goldsmith Book Prize, and a recipient of the David N. Kershaw award for distinguished public policy research.

Recent Publications

1. J.T. Hamilton, News That Sells: Media Competition and News Content, Japanese Journal of Political Science, vol. 8 no. 1 (2007), pp. 7-42
2. J.T. Hamilton, Regulation Through Revelation: The Origin and Impacts of the Toxics Release Inventory Program (2005), New York: Cambridge University Press
3. J.T. Hamilton, The Market and the Media, in Institutions of American Democracy: The Press, edited by Overholser and Jamieson (2005), Oxford University Press
4. J.T. Hamilton, Environmental Equity and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities in OECD Countries: Evidence and Policies, in International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2005/2006, edited by Tietenberg and Folmer (2005), Edward Elgar
5. J.T. Hamilton, Co-editor and Co-organizer for conference volume entitlted "News in the Public Interest: A Free and Subsidized Press" (2004), Reilly Center, Manship School of Mass Communications, Louisiana State University