Economic rationality, risk assessment, decision making under uncertainty, and relationships between economic development, anthropology, and environmental protection.

The Honorable Martha Farnsworth Riche served as Director of the U.S. Census Bureau between 1994 and 1998. Through Farnsworth Riche Associates, Dr. Riche consults, writes, and lectures on demographic changes and their effects on policies, programs, and products.

Professor Opper is the Gad Rausing Professor of International Economics and Business at Lund University in Sweden. Her research and teaching interests include economic reforms in the PR of China, East Asian capitalism, transformation of economic systems, the rise of capitalism, comparative economic systems, new institutional economics, and entrepreneurship.