Professor (Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973.) Professor
Barnett worked at the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston before coming to URI in 1970. His main teaching and research
interests are in the areas of corporate compliance, government regulation,
and environmental policy. He has written extensively on corporate and white
collar crime in the United States and Sweden, and more recently, on
environmental policy in the United States. Professor Barnett is the author
of Toxic Debts and the Superfund Dilemma, a study of the political
and economic forces that have shaped U.S. hazardous waste policy, and
numerous articles on the Superfund cleanup program. He is currently
studying the use of organic and recycled materials in the textile industry.Professor Barnett's classes are: