Stephen DeCanio is a Professor

Professor

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 of economics

Economics

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 at the University of California, Santa Barbara

University of California, Santa Barbara

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. He studies the economics of global environmental protection and energy economics

Energy economics

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 and has written extensively on corporate organization and behavior as it pertains to the use of energy-efficient technologies. After receiving his Ph.D from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 in 1972, he taught at Tufts University

Tufts University

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 and Yale University

Yale University

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 before joining the faculty at the UCSB in 1978. From 1986 to '87 he was the Senior Staff Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisors. He was also a member of the United Nations Environment Programme

United Nations Environment Programme

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 Economic Options Panel, which reviewed the economic aspects of the Montreal Protocol

Montreal Protocol

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 on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

Awards

In 1996 he was awarded the Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award by the United States Environmental Protection Agency

United States Environmental Protection Agency

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 and in 2007 he was presented with the Leontief Prize for advancing the frontiers in economic thought by the Global Development and Environment Institute

Global Development and Environment Institute

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Publications

In addition to numerous journal articles, Dr. DeCanio has written the following books:

• Agriculture in the Postbellum South: The Economics of Production and Supply. Cambridge, Massachusetts: M.I.T. Press, 1974.

• Taxing Energy: Oil Severance Taxation and the Economy (with Robert T. Deacon, H.E. Frech, III, and M. Bruce Johnson). New York: Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc., 1990.

• Tax Waste, Not Work (with Jeff Hamond, principal author, and Peggy Duxbury, Alan Sanstad, and Christopher Stinson). San Francisco: Redefining Progress, 1997.

• The Economics of Climate Change: A Background Paper. San Francisco: Redefining Progress, 1997. (A copy of this may be found in the References section of the Economics of global warming
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• Economic Models of Climate Change: A Critique. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003.

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