About the Author

Induced Technological Change

Author Bio

Lawrence H. Goulder, Stanford University

Lawrence H. Goulder is the Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford University. He is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Institute for International Studies and its Institute for Economic Policy Research; a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, a non-profit environmental and natural resource research firm located in Washington, DC.

Goulder graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in philosophy in 1973. He obtained a master's degree in musical composition from the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris in 1975 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford in 1982. He was a faculty member in the Department of Economics at Harvard before returning to Stanford's economics department in 1989.

Goulder's research examines the environmental and economic impacts of U.S. and international environmental policies. He has focused considerably on policies to reduce emissions of "greenhouse gases" that contribute to climate change, and on "green tax reform" - revamping the tax system to introduce taxes on pollution and reduce taxes on labor effort or investment. In other work he has examined connections between environmental policies and technological innovation. His work often employs a general equilibrium analytical framework that integrates the economy and the environment and links the activities of government, industry, and households. The research considers both the aggregate benefits and costs of various policies as well as the distribution of policy impacts across industries, income groups, and generations. Some of his work is interdisciplinary, involving collaborations with climatologists and biologists. He has conducted analyses for several government agencies and environmental organizations.