Guest economists discuss what it means to put a price on carbon emissions as a tool to wring fossil fuels out of the economy and accelerate the emerging transition to renewable energy.

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Marc Hafstead, Resources for the Future
Marc Hafstead is Director of the Carbon Pricing Initiative for Resources for the Future. His research focuses on the evaluation and design of climate and energy policies. He co-authored  Confronting the Climate Challenge: US Policy Options (Columbia University Press) evaluating the environmental and economic impacts of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade programs, clean energy standards, and gasoline taxes using a sophisticated multi-sector model of the United States. His research also analyzes the distributional and employment impacts of carbon pricing and the design of tax adjustment mechanisms to reduce the emissions uncertainty of carbon tax policies. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University

Yoram Bauman, Stand-Up Economist
Yoram Bauman makes a living as “the world’s first and only stand-up economist”, but he is also an environmental economist who founded Carbon Washington, which in 2016 placed the first-ever carbon tax measure on the ballot. He is the co-author of the Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, the two-volume Cartoon Introduction to Economics, and the 1998 book Tax Shift, which helped inspire the revenue-neutral carbon tax in British Columbia. Bauman takes his comedy act to colleges and corporate events around the country and around the world. His goals in life are to spread joy to the world through economics comedy; to reform economics education; and to implement carbon pricing. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Washington.