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Scott Barrett
International Affairs Building, Room 1427
Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Phone: 212-851-5861
www.globalpublicgoods.com
sb3116@columbia.edu
Biography:
Scott Barrett is a leading scholar on transnational and global challenges, ranging from climate change to disease eradication. His research focuses on how institutions like norms, customary law, resolutions, and treaties can be used to promote international cooperation.
Barrett is the author of Environment and Statecraft: The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-Making, published in paperback by Oxford University Press in 2005. His most recent book, Why Cooperate? The Incentive to Supply Global Public Goods, also published by Oxford University Press, was published in paperback with a new afterword in 2010.
Barrett's research has been awarded the Resources for the Future Dissertation Prize and the Erik Kempe Award.
He has advised a number of international organizations, including the United Nations, the World Bank, the OECD, the European Commission, and the International Task Force on Global Public Goods. He was previously a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and a member of the Academic Panel to the Department of Environment in the UK.
Barrett previously taught at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where he also directed the International Policy program. Before that, he was on the faculty of the London Business School. He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale.
Barrett is a research fellow with the Beijer Institute (Stockholm), CESifo (Munich), and the Kiel Institute of World Economics.
He received his PhD in economics from the London School of Economics.
Scott Barrett is on leave at Princeton University for the 2012-2013 academic year.
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