Debate Summary
This Wilson Dialogue will explore the global environmental and financial effect of carbon emissions and proposed regulation. Experts Lewis and Metcalf will debate the pros and cons of carbon regulation through taxation, cap and trade, and other measures. What is the carbon footprint of your household, employer and nation? How would proposed regulation impact you? Join the dialogue to find out.
Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University
Gilbert E. Metcalf is a professor of economics at Tufts University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a research associate at MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and an associate scholar in the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Metcalf has taught at Princeton University, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and MIT. He has frequently testified before Congress, served on expert panels including a National Academies of Sciences panel on energy externalities, and recently served as the deputy assistant secretary for environment and energy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Currently he serves on the board of directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the international professional association for economists working on environmental and natural resource issues. He has published numerous papers in peer reviewed academic journals, has edited or co-authored four books, and has contributed chapters to a number of books on energy and tax policy. Metcalf received a bachelor’s in mathematics from Amherst College, a master’s in agricultural and resource economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Marlo Lewis Jr., Competitive Enterprise Institute
Marlo Lewis, Jr. is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writing on global warming, energy policy, and public policy issues. He has been published in The Washington Times, Investor’s Business Daily, Tech Central Station, the National Review, and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. He has appeared on various television and radio programs, and his ideas have been featured in radio commentary by Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy. Prior to joining CEI in 2002, he served as director of external relations at the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles, California. During the 106th Congress, Lewis served as staff director of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs. Lewis has also served as research director for Citizens Against Government Waste. He has been a staff consultant to the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, a special assistant at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs and Bureau of International Organization Affairs, and a visiting assistant professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College. He holds a bachelor’s in political science from Claremont McKenna College and a doctorate in government from Harvard University.
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