NBER profile: James Adams.

• Position: Research associate - Brief Article - Biography

James Adams is a Research Associate in the Productivity Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a professor of economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Chicago. Before moving to Rensselaer he taught at the University of Florida and Iowa State University. He has also held visiting positions at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of the Census, and the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State at the University of Chicago.

Adams recently served on a National Research Council panel on telecommunications R and D. He also has advised the Bureau of the Census and the Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology on the measurement of R and D.

In recent years, Adams's research interests have centered on the connections between industrial productivity in the output of...