Julian Wolpert (born 1932) is Bryant Professor Emeritus of Geography, Public Affairs, and Urban Planning at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, where he taught from 1973 to 2005[1] and chaired the Program in Urban and Regional Planning.
[5] Wolpert is a nationally cited scholar in the fields of location theory, urban development, migration, public and social services, and the analysis of charity, philanthropy, and the nonprofit sector, and has testified before Congress about the regulation of philanthropy.
[6] He has challenged conservatives who advocate for charitable rather than public service approaches to social policy.
Wolpert was an early behaviorist (1960s) who demonstrated that producer and migrant decisions were affected differentially by imperfect information and environmental uncertainty.
The analyses used operations research and multivariate statistical models of spatially sampled data.