Matthew E. Kahn is a Professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, the Department of Economics, the Department of Public Policy, the Anderson School of Business and the UCLA Law School. 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). In September 2010, Basic Books published his book titled Climatopolis . My research focuses on environmental, urban, real estate, and energy economics.
mkahn@ioe.ucla.edu
phone: 310-794-4904
Current Vita
Scholarship
Recent Popular Media Coverage (slightly out of date)
My YouTube VideosA profile in courage?
Blogging
I blog at greeneconomics.blogspot.com. I also blog at the RBC blog.
My Christian Science Monitor Blog Posts can be found here.
I serve as the Director of Research for the UCLA Anderson School's Ziman Real Estate Center. We have created a new Real Estate Blog. I also serve as a Luskin Scholar at UCLA.
My Three Favorite Books
Purchase my 2006 Brookings Institution Press book "Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment"
Here is the Book's "Official Webpage" : http://climatopolis.com/
Contact me about public speaking about the economics of climate change
For a "preview" of my book, you can choose from the following Talks.
Watch my UCSB Talk that 68,400 people have viewed here.
Talk #1: Talk at USC in February 2010 (My mother likes this one!)
Talk #2: Talk at UCSB Bren School in January 2010 .
Talk #4: Video 10/26/2010 My Climatopolis talk at the Zocalo Square in Culver City, Los Angeles.
Radio Show #1: NPR in Seattle go to September 1st 2010.
Radio Show #2: KPCC Interview with Patt Morrison on September 10th 2010.
China Talk: My World Bank Speech on China's Green Cities on January 10th 2011.
Climatopolis is discussed in Scientific American
The Financial Times reviewed this book on October 1st 2010 read it .
A Serious Man
Kahn circa 1996
A Young Man in Fall 1988 (1st day of graduate school)
