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ROSS EMMETT (2005)
Publication: "Malthus Reconsidered:
Population, Natural Resources and Markets"
PERC Policy Series Issue No. PS-38
http://www.perc.org/pdf/ps38.pdf
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Ross B. Emmett is associate professor of political theory and constitutional
democracy at James Madison College, Michigan State University. He conducts research on
classical economic thought and the history of economics at the University of Chicago
between the 1920's and the 1980's. He has edited the three-volume Great Bubbles:
Reactions to the South Sea Bubble, the Mississippi Scheme and the Tulip
Mania Affair (Pickering & Chatto, 2000); a two-volume collection of The
Selected Essays of Frank H. Knight (University of Chicago, 1999); and the eight-
volume collection The Chicago Tradition in Economics, 1892-1945 (Routhledge,
2001). He is an editor of the research annual Research in the History of Economic
Thought and Methodology.
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ANDY HANSSEN (2005)
Research Project: "Race to the Bottom"
Among States, with Specific
Emphasis on Environmental Policy.
Publication: Forthcoming.
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F. Andrew Hanssen is associate professor of economics at Montana State
University. His areas of research include institutions, law and economics, political
economy, and industrial organization. He has published articles in a number of
referred journals, including the American Economic Review; the Journal
of Law and Economics; the Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization;
and the Journal of Legal Studies. Several of his articles have been republished
in books. He was a National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution in 2000-01.
Hanssen received his B.A. and M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, and an MBA and Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago. Before getting his Ph.D., he was a management consultant,
working in Europe, Latin America, and the Far East. He joined the Montana State faculty
in 1995.
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ROB FLECK (2005)
Research Project: "Race to the Bottom"
Among States, with Specific
Emphasis on Environmental Policy.
Publication: Forthcoming.
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Robert K. Fleck is associate professor of economics at Montana State
University. Fleck's research combines theoretical and statistical analysis, and his
major fields of interest include political economy, public finance, economic history,
and development economics. Much of his work focuses on the central issue of why so
many countries fail to adopt successful political and economic reforms. his research
has provided new insights into a wide range of topics, including the origins of
democracy in ancient Greece, the performance of electoral systems, the rise of women's
rights, the downfall of communism, and the operations of the World Bank. Fleck has won
awards for both research and teaching. He graduated summa cum laude from the University
of California at San Diego, and holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.
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JONATHAN ADLER (2004)
Research Project: Wetland Federalism and
the "Race to the Bottom."
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Jonathan H. Adler is Associate Professor and Associate Director of the
Center for Business Law and Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University School
of Law, where he teaches courses in environmental and constitutional law. Professor
Adler's research focused on the intersection of environmental and constitutional law
and examines alternatives to federal environmental regulation. In 2004, he received
the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually to an academic under the age of 40 for
excellence in legal scholarship and teaching, from the Federalist Society of Law and
Public Policy. Prior to joining the faculty at Case Western, Professor Adler clerked
for the Honorable David B. Sentelle on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit. From 1991 to 2000, Professor Adler worked at the Competitive
Enterprise Institute, a free market research and advocacy group in Washington, D.C.,
where he directed CEI's environmental studies program. He is currently a contributing
editor to National Review Online, and serves on the Board of Directors for
the America's Future Foundation and the editorial board of the Cato Supreme Court
Review.
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Bruce Benson is the DeVoe Moore Distinguished Research Professor in
Economics at Florida State University. He has published over 110 academic journal
articles, more than 40 chapters in edited volumes, and four books since receiving his
Ph.D. from Texas A&M (1978). His research focus in recent years might be classified
as "law and economics", broadly defined, as it includes work on: (1)the economics of
crime and illicit drug policy; (2)private alternatives to publicly provided law, law
enforcement, adjudication, and roads; the evolution of law, norms, and institutions
of governance with applications to emerging markets, the internet, and Native American
communities; and (3)behavior and decision making in the public sector, including
analysis of law-enforcement resource allocation, corruption, the opportunity costs of
regulation, and the adjudication process. The Independent Institute was awarded the
Atlas Economic Research Foundation's 2000 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial
Award recognizing it as "the institute that published a book ... in 1998 or 1999 that,
in the opinion of the judges, made the greatest contribution to public understanding
of the free economy" for Professor Benson's 1998 book, To Serve and Protect:
Privatization and Community in Criminal Justice. Professor Benson has also received
a Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education from the Freedoms
Foundation at Valley Forge for his course on the "Economics of Native Americans" (2004),
a Fulbright Senior Specialists Grant to the Czech Republic (2003-2004), the 2001
"Distinguished Scholar Award" given to a member of the Association of Private Enterprise
Education "who has, over a sustained period of years, made a significant contribution
to the research and literature of free market economics", the 1999 Journal of Private
Enterprise Best Paper Award, the 1989 Georgescu-Roegen Prize for the best Southern
Economics Journal article, as well as several other awards and grants.
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WALTER THURMAN (2003)
Research Project: The Effects of Government
Land Conservation Programs.
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Walter Thurman is Professor of Agricultural and Resource economics at
North Carolina State University. He conducts research in the economics and political
economy of agricultural and natural resource policy and has published widely on this
topic. His published work includes empirical studies of quota schemes in the United
States for peanuts and tobacco, analysis of the effects of the Clean Water and Clear
Air Acts, and compensation schemes in the poultry industry. He currently is studying
land trusts and the rise of markets for crop pollination services. Thurman was the
first recipient of the American Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Graduate
Instructor Award in 1996 and the first recipient of the NCSU College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences Outstanding Graduate Instructor Award in 1994-1995. He acts as a
consultant for the Research Triangle Institute's Center for Economics Research and the
Society of Actuaries/Casualty Actuary Society. Thurman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from
the University of Chicago.
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Gary D. Libecap is the Anheuser Busch Professor of Entrepreneurial
Studies, Economics, and Law and director of the Karl Eller Center at the University of
Arizona, Tucson. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic
Research. Libecap has published extensively on property rights and regulation as they
relate to natural resources, the environment, and agriculture. He has been coeditor of
the Journal of Economic History and member of the Economics Panel of the
National Science Foundation.
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B. Delworth Gardner is emeritus professor of economics at Brigham Young
University and professor emeritus of agricultural economics at University of California,
Davis. A highly respected agricultural economist, Gardner is known for his path-breaking
analyses of the impact of government policy on issues such as water allocation, livestock
grazing, and oil shale development. He has taught at numerous universities and served
as president of the Western Agricultural Economics Association. He has been a consultant
to many organizations, including the Agency for International Development; the Ford
Foundation, India; the California Department of Water Resources, and others. He was a
PERC Julian Simon Fellow in 2002, where he studied globalization and its impact on the
environment and natural resources.
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R. DAVID SIMPSON (2002)
Publication: "Conserving Biodiversity through
Markets: A Better Approach."
PERC Policy Series Issue No. PS-32
http://www.perc.org/pdf/ps32.pdf
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R. David Simpson was former senior fellow in Resources for the Future's
Energy and Natural Resources division. He has since joined the Environmental Protection
Agency in Washington, D.C. Simpson's research focused on the economics of biological
diversity, including the valuation of diversity for its use in new product research and
development, and alternative conservation strategies, including market-based incentives.
He also has investigated the relationship between industrial and environmental policy
and issues related to land use, sustainable development, and technological innovation.
Simpson has edited two books and written many journal articles and book chapters on the
economics of biodiversity, conservation policy, environmental regulation, and industrial
competition. He is a member of the editorial council of the Journal of Environmental
Economics and Management and has chaired the Association of Environmental and
Resource Economists' annual workshop. Simpson frequently consults on biodiversity and
conservation policy for foreign governments and international aid institutions. David
received his bachelor's degree from Whitman College and his Ph.D. in economics from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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ROBERT E. McCORMICK (2001)
Publication: "On the Relationship Between Net
Carbon Emissions and Income: Are Rich People
Cool?" Chapter with Joshua A. Utt and W. Walker
Hunter in Environmental Policy and Agriculture:
Conflicts, Prospects, and Implicatioin, ed. Roger
Meiners and Bruce Yandle (Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers, 2003). "The Relation Between Net
Carbon Emissions and Income" in You Have to
Admit It's Getting Better: From Economic
Prosperity to Environmental Quality, ed. Terry L.
Anderson (Hoover Institution Press, 2004)
http://www.hoover.org/publications/fulltext/better/109.pdf
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Robert McCormick graduated Clemson University with a B.A. in Economics in
1972 and received his M.A. in Economics in 1974 from Clemson. He was awarded the Ph.D.
degree in Economics from Texas A&:M University in 1978 and the accolade as the Al
Chalk Distinguished Graduated Student in Economics. He is currently Professor of
Economics at Clemson University. McCormick has been an Assistant Professor of Business
Administration at the Simon Graduate School of Management at the University of Rochester,
a Visiting Professor of Economics at Universidad Marroquin (Guatemala), a Senior Visiting
Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Public Choice (VPI), and a Lecturer at
the Consortium International MBA (Italy). He was honored as the BB&T Scholar at
Clemson University starting in the Fall of 2000. McCormick has served as a consultant
to the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission.
He regularly consults and advises companies on financial matters and provides expert
courtroom testimony. He has testified before the U.S. Congress and the S.C.
legislature on telecommunications and electricity deregulation and the future of these
markets. He has served as a consultant to the Treasury of New Zealand and the Canadian
government. McCormick has been an associate editor of the academic journals,
Journal of Corporate Finance and the Southern Economic Journal. He is
a frequent reviewer of manuscripts for publication in academic journals. He is a
cofounder along with Peter Melvin of Sportometrics, a sports and economics consulting
firm specializing in golf course research. McCormick is a principal consultant with
Nathan Associates. He has published in a broad range of academic books and journals
on public policy, managerial and financial economics, telecommunications and
electricity markets, sports and economics, antitrust and industrial organization.
McCormick was honored as the 1996 Prince Innovative Teacher of Clemson University by
the Student Government of Clemson University. In 1998, he was chosen as the Clemson
University Alumni Master Teacher of the Year. He was chosen as the Clemson University
MBA Professor of the Year for 2001. He is the recipient of the 1997 and 1999 Clemson
University Trustee's Award for Excellence. McCormick was appointed PERC Senior Associate
in 2002. McCormick's favorite pastimes are golf, woodworking, and plowing. A tree
farmer and hunter, and if he enjoys anything more than his tractor, it is a walk in
the woods with his wife and two boys.
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Seth W. Norton is Aldeen Professor of Business at Wheaton College. He
holds a B.A. in history from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. in finance and a
Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. Norton has published in a variety
of areas -- development economics, industrial organization, finance, marketing, and
strategic management. Publications include works in the Cato Journal,
Contemporary Political Economy, Economic Development and Cultural Change,
Economic Inquiry, Journal of Business, Journal of Law &
Economics, and Strategic Management Journal. As a Julian Simon Fellow at
PERC in 2001, Norton studied the links between economic institutions and human well-
being across countries.
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Roger A. Sedjo received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of
Washington. He is currently a Senior Fellow and Director of Forest Economics and
Policy Program (FEPP) at Resources for the Future (RFF) in Washington, D.C., where he
has been responsible for the direction, administration, coordination, and fundraising
for the FEPP since the program's inception in 1977. The principal activity of the
program is public policy research in forestry and related areas, leading to publication
of books, articles and reports. Sedjo began his career as assistant professor of
economics at Utah State University before becoming technical advisor to the Economic
Planning Board of the Republic of Korea for the construction of the Third Five-Year
Economic Development Plan, 1972-1976. He then joined the Department of State's Asia
Bureau, Agency for International Development, as program economist where his duties
included assessment and evaluation of existing and proposed AID programs in Asia and
monitoring and assessing the overall economic and balance of payments situation of
particular countries. Just before joining RFF, Sedjo was tenured associate professor of
economics at Utah State University where he specialized in international development
and resource economics. He is editor of a number of books on forestry including a
forthcoming book entitled A Vision of the Forest (RFF, May 2000) and one of
the coauthors of Sustainability in Temperate Forests (RFF, 1998) and
Global Forests: Issues for Six Billion People (McGraw-Hill, 1991), among
other books. He has published chapters in books and articles in professional journals
such as Journal of Forestry, American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
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Indur Goklany received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan
State University. He has over twenty-five years of experience addressing science and
policy aspects of environmental and natural resource policy issues in state and federal
government, and in the private sector. At the EPA's Chicago regional office, he helped
develop air pollution control strategies and regulations for the U.S. industrial
heartland. Subsequently, as Chief Technical Assessment Division, National Commission
on Air Quality, he analyzed national impacts of pollution and its control. After a
period as a Washington based consultant on energy and environmental issues to both
government and industry, he helped develop the EPA's first ever new source bubble
(emission trade) for which he was awarded an EPA bronze medal. Working with the EPA's
Regulatory Reform Staff, he was responsible for helping it adopt the emissions trading
policy statement in the mid-1980's. At the Department of the Interior's Office of
Policy Analysis, he served on various national and international panels and groups
dealing with global climate change and acid rain. He has published extensively in
various scholarly journals on air pollution, climate change, biodiversity, global food
security, and the role of technology, economic growth, and trade in creating, as well
as solving environmental problems. He has also published a book on the history and
origins of air pollution control in the U.S. titled Clearing the Air: The Real
Story of the War on Air Pollution. While serving as a D & D Foundation Julian
Simon Fellow at PERC, Indur Goklany was on leave from the U.S. Department of the
Interior's Office of Policy Analysis. His work as the Julian Simon Fellow was conducted
as an independent scholar and was not part of his official duties with the Department,
nor does it necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department or any other
branch of government.
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