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Frank Ackerman
Global
Development and Environment Institute
Tufts University
44 Teele Avenue
Medford, MA 02155
Phone: 617-627-6957
Fax: 617-627-2409
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Frank Ackerman is an economist who has written extensively about the economics of climate change and other environmental problems. His book, “Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing,” is a critique of cost-benefit analysis and its abuse in US environmental policy. His latest books are “Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution” (Island Press, 2008), and “Can We Afford the Future? Economics for a Warming World” (Zed Books, 2009). He has written numerous academic and popular articles, and has directed policy reports for clients ranging from Greenpeace to the European Parliament. He is a founder and member of the steering committee of Economics for Equity and Environment (the E3 Network), and a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform. Frank received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1975, and has taught economics at Tufts University and at the University of Massachusetts. Since 2007, he has worked jointly with GDAE and the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), leading a research program on climate economics. In addition to his day job, he plays the trumpet in the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, an amateur New Orleans-style band in the Boston area.
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