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Department of Economics & E.N. Thompson Forum Presents

Brown Bag Q&A with Professor Gilbert Metcalf

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Time:
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Louise Pound Hall Room: 222
512 N 12th St
Lincoln NE 68508
Additional Info: LPH
Contact:
Department of Economics, (402) 472-2319
Gilbert E. Metcalf is a professor of economics at Tufts University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a research associate at MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and an associate scholar in the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Metcalf has taught at Princeton University, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and MIT. He has frequently testified before Congress, served on expert panels including a National Academies of Sciences panel on energy externalities, and recently served as the deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Currently he serves on the board of directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the international professional association for economists working on environmental and natural resource issues. He has published numerous papers in peer reviewed academic journals, has edited or co-authored four books, and has contributed chapters to a number of books on energy and tax policy. Metcalf received a bachelor’s in mathematics from Amherst College, a master’s in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

The debate “Cutting Carbon Emissions: Better Environment, Worse Economy?” will begin at 7pm at the Lied Center.

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