Robin Alpine
University of Strathclyde
Contact Information
Telephone Number (office): 0141 548 3555 (home): 01475 639761
Email Address: r.l.alpine@strath.ac.uk
Department Telephone Number: 0141 548 3842
Department Fax Number: 0141 552 5589
Robin Alpine, a graduate of Glasgow University, was a Senior Lecturer in the Department from 1971 until his retirement in 2006. Since then he has been an Honorary Senior Lecturer, teaching classes in statistics and econometrics. Between 1975 and 1977 he was seconded to the David Livingstone Institute of Overseas Development Studies, working principally on a UNIDO/UNEP project evaluating the environmental impact of different sugar technologies in African countries. He has been consultant to the Clyde Port Authority and the British Airports Authority in relation to traffic forecasting, and to the General Optical Council on manpower planning and recruitment. For many years he was the Departmental Director of Postgraduate Studies and Course Director of the taught MSc in Business Economics
Publications
R Alpine and J Pickett, Agriculture, Liberalisation and Economic Growth in Ghana and the Ivory Coast: 1960-1990, ISBN 92-64-13936-2, OECD, Paris, pp.139, 1993.
"Use of Data: the Case of Whisky", ch.25 in K. Ingham and J. Love (eds), Understanding the Scottish Economy, Martin Robertson, 1983.
M A Tribe and R Alpine, "Sources of Scale Economies: Sugar Production in Less Developed Countries", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol.49, No.2, 1987.
R Alpine, "A Pedagogical note on Bond Financing of Government Expenditure", Journal of Economic Studies, Vol.12, No.4, 1986.
M A Tribe and R Alpine, "Scale Economies and the '0.6 rule'", Engineering Costs and Production Economics, Vol.10, No.4, 1986.
R Alpine and J Pickett, "More on Appropriate Technology in Sugar Manufacturing", World Development, Vol.8, 1980.
A B Jack and R Alpine, "Optical Services in the UK: a Study of a Professional Labour Market", International Journal of Management Science, Vol.8, No.6, 1980