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Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the UCLA Department of Economics and the UCLA Department of Public Policy. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Before joining the UCLA faculty in January 2007, he taught at Columbia and the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He has served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Stanford. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is the author of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution Press 2006) and the co-author of Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton University Press 2009). He blogs on environmental and urban topics at greeneconomics.blogspot.com. In Summer 2009, he was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 25 Economics bloggers.
http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_climate_fight_heads_to_california
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/76573/does-climate-policy-just-need-better-framing
January 2010 Speech at UCSB Bren School on Climatopolis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQkTQXKgeas&feature=youtube_gdata
May 30th 2010, Boston Globe Magazine, http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2010/05/30/one_mans_trash/
USC Conference on Climate Policy --- Video of a group discussion http://www.youtube.com/user/USCSPPD#p/u/3/ZgTqBuha9oI
New York Times, May 11th 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/05/11/11climatewire-conservatives-tend-to-conserve-less-when-it-69538.html
http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/05/05/how-bad-is-it/ Implications of the Recent Oil Spill 5/5/2010
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18860-republicans-wont-be-nudged-into-cutting-home-energy.html May 5th 2010, New Scientitst
The New Republic Blog from May 3rd 2010 on my disasters as regulatory catalysts work
http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-vine/disaster-votes
Milken Institute 2010 Global Conference Panel on climate change
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/events/gcprogram.taf?function=detail&eventid=GC10&EvID=2307
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/cities-do-it-better/
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/11w7b4pg A Video of a Recent Talk I gave at UCLA on April 5th 2010
http://www.slate.com/id/2251658/ slate magazine piece about my new work, this work was discussed on Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic Blog and The New Republic Blog.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2010/04/22/ioe-earth-day/ a Radio Show
US News and World Report Piece on Deaths from Natural Disasters, March 24th 2010
Los Angeles Times Editorial from 3/24/2010
Salon Blog Post on China's Consumption of natural resources
Christian Science Monitor Syndication of this Blog
UPI Article about the Costa/Kahn Demography Paper, 2-24-2010
Google's Impact on Local Real Estate Prices
Radio Show on Long Distance Relationships
NY Times 2/9/2010 Economix Blog on China's "Green Cities"
Wall Street Journal Blog 1/19/2010, China
The Economist's Blog, 1/19/10 on the China Greenness Paper
NY Times 1/19/2010 Economix Blog on my Disasters Work
Reason Magazine Blog, January 2010
Freakonomics NY Times Blog, 1/2010
Chinese Newspaper, January 2010 in Chinese
December 22nd 2009, NY Times Economix Blog
My Interview with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, 12-2009
11-24-2009, Santa Monica Mirror
Podcast of 11/23/2009 Lecture at UCLA
The Economist, Lexington's Piece November 12th 2009
The New Republic Blog , 11-11-2009
The New Republic Blog, November 6th 2009
Wall Street Journal Blog, 11-4-2009
Salon Magazine, Andrew Leonard's Blog , November 2009
Debate (in Japanese) on Japan's Initiative to reduce its CO2 Emissions by 25% by 2020
Interview (in Chinese) with China's Energy News
The Mayor of Redlands, California
Huntingpost Blog quote, 9-2009
CBS Money Watch Quote on Cash for Clunkers
Sierra Club Magazine Quote, 9-2009
The Economist on Cash for Clunkers, August 18th 2009
NY Times , August 12th 2009 Cash for Clunkers Quote
Time Magazine Blog on Cash for Clunkers
Financial Times Blog on Energy , July 30th
Wall Street Journal, July 16th 2009 on Top 25 Econ Blogs
C-Span Book TV Hour Long Interview with Edward Hume Discussing his book "Ecobarons"
Christian Science Monitor (June 29th 2009)
Grist Magazine Piece by Dave Roberts
Vox EU Piece on Carbon Geography
NPR Podcast on the Green Economy , June 2nd 2009
Denver Post Opinion Piece on Green Jobs, May 31sth 2009
Grist Article on Cragg/Kahn Carbon Geography Work
The Atlantic, May 2009 and Carbon Geography
Grist Article on May 18th 2009
Hamilton College Alumni Magazine Spring 2009
Grist on Cragg/Kahn Carbon Paper
Reuters Article about Cragg/Kahn Paper on Carbon Geography
Australian News Story on the Hummer
Los Angeles Times Quote on April 26th 2009
A Review of the Costa/Kahn Book (written in German!)
New York Times Economix Blog 4/21/2009
My May 2009 Foreign Policy Piece on "Green Jobs"
My IOE Report Card Piece on the Prius and Green Product Demand
VoxEU Coverage of Zheng/Kahn work on China's Cities
Green Jobs Article in U.S Department of State Publication
New York Times, Green Blog 4/1/2009
Edmunds Car Blog on my Hybrid Study, 3/24/2009
Australian National Radio Interview on Costa/Kahn book
Environment Report Radio Interview on Story on Green Businesses , March 9th 2009
Letter to the Editor, San Diego Tribune March 2009 on AB32
An Article on Cities and Climate Change
Los Angeles Times, March 4th 2009
NPR in Philadelphia (look up March 2nd 2009 1st hour)
MIT Technology Review, March 2009
American Prospect review of Costa/Kahn book, March 2009
Chronicle of Higher Education on Costa/Kahn Book , 2/09
Los Angeles Times, February 2009 article on the Costa/Kahn book
Reuters Television Appearance, February 2009
Wall Street Journal, 1/31/2009
Lucas Davis and Matthew Kahn's Work on NAFTA's Environmental Consequences
Huffington Post Blog on the costs and benefits of diversity
Wall Street Journal Book Review of Heroes and Cowards
UCLA January 2009 Press Release on Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Costa and Kahn)
New Yorker Magazine Article January 12th 2009
New York Times Economix Blog, December 2008
New York Times Green Blog, December 11st 2008
Radio Interview on KPCC 89.3, December 11th 2008
Associated Press and Contra Costa Times, 12-2008
Sacramento Bee, December 10th 2008
NPR Radio Interview 11-2008 on Obama and the "Green Economy"
Wall Street Journal , August 12th 2008
International Herald Tribune, June 2007
International Herald Tribune, August 2007
Wall Street Journal Econoblog, March 2008
Wall Street Journal Econoblog, January 2007
UC Berkeley Student Newspaper, July 2008
Speech by Italy's Minister of the Interior, Giuliano Amato, 2008
Tuscaloosa, Alabama News , March 2008