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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 Management 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. 

A profile in courage? 

mkahn@ioe.ucla.edu,  phone: 310-794-4904
 
 

Current Vita     with web links to almost all of my publications 

 


Scholarship
 

Recent Popular Media Coverage   (slightly out of date)

My YouTube Videos  


Blogging
 
I blog at greeneconomics.blogspot.com.   I also blog at the RBC blog.
 
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.  

 

 

My Three Favorite Books 
 

Purchase my 2006 Brookings Institution Press book "Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment"

Read Chapter One

 

 

 

 

 

Purchase my 2009 Princeton University Press Book "Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War" (joint with Dora L. Costa)

Read Chapter One

 

 

 

 
 

 

Here is the Book's "Official Webpage"   :   http://climatopolis.com/
 
 

 
 
Watch my UCSB Talk that 78,200 people have viewed here.

Talk #1:  Talk at USC in February 2010    (My mother likes this one!)
 
 
 
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.

New China Talk at USC:  China's Future Green Cities  on January 17th 2012
 
 
 Climatopolis is discussed in Scientific American
 
The Economist Magazine reviewed this book in its September 3rd 2010 issue .
 
The Financial Times reviewed this book on October 1st 2010 read it .
 
 
 
A Serious Man
 
 


Circa 1996

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A Young Man in Fall 1988 (1st day of graduate school)