Green Economist Directory - Details
Name |
Frank
Ackerman |
Address |
Tufts University
GDAE, 44 Teele Ave. Medford MA 02155 |
| Phone Number | 617-627-6957 |
| Institution | Tufts University / Global Development & Environment Institute |
| Title | Director, Research & Policy Program |
| Biography
Brief CV: 1995 – present: Tufts University, Global Development & Environment Institute, research on economics and environment 1985-95: Tellus Institute, research and consulting on energy policy, waste management, and related issues 1982-85: teaching economics at University of Massachusetts (Amherst and Boston); computer programming 1974-82: (Co)founder and (co)editor of Dollars & Sense magazine 1975: PhD, economics, Harvard University 1967: BA, mathematics and economics, Swarthmore College My research focuses on the economic case for environmental protection, and critiques of cost-benefit analysis and other rationales for inaction; I have also written on the flaws in neoclassical economic theory. In recent years I have worked with groups including Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Riverkeeper, the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow (Massachusetts anti-toxics coalition), Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and the Farmworker Justice Fund. My studies of REACH, the European chemicals policy, have been sponsored by the Nordic Council of Ministers, and by the European Parliament. I am a contributor to the IPCC Third (2001) and Fourth (2007) Assessment Reports; my latest research involves the economics of climate change. My latest books are “Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing” (with Lisa Heinzerling), and “The Flawed Foundations of General Equilibrium: Critical Essays on Economic Theory” (with Alejandro Nadal). |
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Recent Consulting “Climate Change: The Costs of Inaction,” for Friends of the Earth-UK “Implications of REACH for Developing Countries,” for the European Parliament – DG External Affairs “French Industry and Sustainable Chemistry,” for Greenpeace France Expert testimony on EPA’s economic analysis of the pesticides azinphos-methyl and phosmet, for Farmworker Justice Fund “Costs of Preventable Childhood Illness: The Price We Pay for Pollution,” for the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow “The Economics of Phasing Out PVC,” for the Coming Clean Coalition | |
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| Frank Ackerman and Ian Finlayson (2006) The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis Climate Policy | |
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| Frank Ackerman (2006) The Unbearable Lightness of Regulatory Costs Fordham Urban Law Journal Iss 4 | |
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| Frank Ackerman, Lisa Heinzerling, and Rachel Massey (2005) Applying Cost-Benefit to Past Decisions: Was Environmental Protection Ever a Good Idea? Administrative Law Review Iss 1 | |
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| Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling (2004) Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing The New Press New York | |
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