Richard T. Carson
rcarson@weber.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-3383
Fax: (858) 534-7040
Office: #Econ 323
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1985 (resource economics)M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 1985 (statistics)
M.A., George Washington University, 1979 (international relations)
B.A., Mississippi State University, 1977 (french and political science)
Biography
Richard T. Carson is Professor in and former Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is also a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney’s Centre for the Study of Choice. Carson served as President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). He is an elected Fellow of AERE and of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Carson previously served as Research Director for International Environmental Policy at the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and as a Senior Fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.
Carson received a Ph.D. in resource economics and M.A. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 and an M.A. in international relations from George Washington University in 1979. Carson has extensive experience in assessing the benefits and costs of environmental policies. His specialty is valuing non-marketed goods and new commercial products using a wide array of techniques.
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