Matthew Kahn

Who is Matthew Kahn?

Matthew E. Kahn is a leading American educator in the field of environmental economics. After earning his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, he began teaching at various universities, including Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Tufts. He is currently a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, Department of Economics, Department of Public Policy, Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Law School. He is the Low Tuck Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. He is a Research Associate at the NBER and the IZA. Kahn has published over 95 papers and has authored four books including; Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment and Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War, which was published late in 2008 by Princeton University Press. In 2010, Basic Books published his book on climate change adaptation and cities titled; "Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter World. In July 2013, he published a free markets environmental textbook that can be purchased for $2 a copy on Amazon called Fundamentals of Environmental Economics: Solving Urban Pollution Problems.