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Tom Tietenberg

Title

Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus

Information

Education

B.A. International Affairs, USAF Academy Distinguished Graduate, 1964

M.A. Economics, University of the East, Manila, Philippines, 1965

M.S. Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1970

Ph.D. Economics, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1971

Areas of Expertise

  • Individual transferable quotas and fisheries management
  • Economic incentives for sustainable development
  • Economic incentives for pollution control
  • Climate change and global warming
  • The design and evaluation of economic incentive mechanisms for environmental protection
  • Tradable permit systems for pollution control and fisheries management
  • Energy efficiency policy
  • Climate change policy
  • Environmental economics
  • Natural resource economics
  • Emissions trading

Personal Information

Tom is the author or editor of eleven books (including Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, one of the best selling textbooks in the field, and Emissions Trading, one of the most widely cited books in the tradable permits literature) as well as over one hundred articles and essays on environmental and natural resource economics.

Elected President of the Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists (AERE) in 1987-8, he has consulted on environmental policy with the World Bank, the InterAmerican Development Bank, the Agency for International Development and the Environmental Protection Agency as well as several state and foreign governments.

Tom attended and spoke at the first Earth Summit in Rio in 1992 and has lectured on sustainable development at many international conferences. In 2006 he was designated one of six inaugural AERE Fellows and in 2010 he received the “Outstanding Public Service Though Economics” award from the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association.

Publications

Emissions Trading: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed. (Washington, DC: Resources for the Future, 2006)

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (Reading, MA. Addsion-Wesley Longman, 2006)

Differences in National Climate Change Polices? Ecological Economics (forthcoming) with Emila Tjernstr Colby ’07

“Tradable Permits in Principle and Practice,” Moving to Markets: Lessons from Twenty Years of Experience. J. Freeman and C. Kolstad. New York, Oxford University Press, 2007: 63-94.

“Environmental Programs: Liberal Arts Colleges and Interdisciplinary Education.” Environmental Science & Technology 39 (10): 221A-224A. (co-authored with Stephanie Pfirman, Columbia University and Sharon Hall, Colorado College).

Editor, Emissions Trading Programs (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2001), Volume I: Implementation and Evolution, Volume II: Theory and Design 

“Sharing the Fish: Toward a National Policy on Individual Fishing Quotas” (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1999) co-authored with the other members of the Committee to Review Individual Fishing Quotas.