Articles
& Reports
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This
page provides links to articles,
reports, and other publications by GDAE researchers
that have been published since 2000 in a variety of
places. All these documents are available in PDF format,
and can be accessed by clicking on the title you wish
to read or download. You can download
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"Back to the Drawing Board: No Basis for Concluding the Doha Round of Negotiations" by Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, RIS Policy Brief #36, April 2008.
"From Outer Circle to Center Stage: The Maturation of Heterodox Economics" by Neva Goodwin, in Future Directions for Heterodox Economics, edited by John T. Harvey and Robert F. Garnett, Jr. (2007).
"Climbing Up the Technology Ladder? High-Technology Exports in China and Latin America" by Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski, U.C. Berkeley Center for Latin American Studies Working Paper No. 20, January 2008.
"Free Trade Agreements in the Americas: Worth the Investment?" by Kevin P. Gallagher, Bridges Trade Monthly, ICTSD, Nov.-Dec. 2007 (Also published in Spanish in ICTSD's Puentes).
"Feeding at the Trough: Industrial Livestock Firms Saved $35 billion
From Low Feed Prices," by Elanor Starmer and Timothy A. Wise, GDAE Policy Brief 07-03, December 2007.
"Florida and Climate Change: The Costs of Inaction," by Elizabeth A.Stanton and Frank Ackerman; report commissioned by Environmental Defense, Novbember 2007.
"The Economics of Atrazine," by Frank Ackerman; International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, volume 13 no. 4, (Oct-Dec 2007), pp.441-449.
"Multinationals and the “Maquila Mindset” in Mexico’s Silicon Valley," by Lyuba Zarsky and Kevin P. Gallagher, Americas Program Policy Brief,
Interhemispheric Resource Center, October 12, 2007.
"Debating Climate Economics: The Stern Review vs. Its Critics," by Frank Ackerman; report to Friends of the Earth-UK, July 2007.
"Law and Economics for a Warming World," by Lisa Heinzerling and Frank Ackerman; Harvard Law and Policy Review volume 1, no. 2, pp.331-362.
"The Carbon Content of Japan-US Trade," by Frank Ackerman, Masanobu Ishikawa, and Mikio Suga; Energy Policy, volume 35 no. 9, September 2007, pp.4455-4462.
"The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis," by Frank Ackerman and Ian Finlayson; Climate Policy, volume 6 no. 5 (2006), pp.509-526. (Despite the nominal publication date, this first appeared in print in mid-2007.)
An earlier version of this article first appeared as a GDAE Working Paper: "The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis," Frank Ackerman and Ian Finlayson; GDAE Working Paper 06-07. October, 2006.
"Relevance of ‘Policy Space’ for Development:
Implications for Multilateral Trade Negotiations," by Nagesh Kumar and Kevin P. Gallagher, RIS Discussion Paper #120, March 2007.
"No Fast Track to Global Poverty Reduction," by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, GDAE Policy Brief 07-02, April 2007.
"The WTO and the Shrinking of Development Space—How Big is the Bite?" by Alisa DiCaprio and Kevin P. Gallagher, Journal of World Investment and Trade, Volume 7, no. 5, October 2006.
A policy brief based on this article appeared as "Measuring the Cost of Lost Policy Space at the WTO," Americas Program, International Relations Center, March 20, 2007.
This document was also published in Spanish and Korean.
"Industrial Livestock Companies' Gains from Low Feed Prices, 1997-2005," by Timothy A. Wise and Elanor Starmer, GDAE Policy Brief 07-01, February, 2007.
"Do Investment Agreements Attract Investment? Evidence from Latin America," by Kevin P. Gallagher and Melissa B.L. Birch, Journal of World Investment and Trade v7, no6., December 2006.
"Climate Change - The Costs of Inaction," by Frank Ackerman and Liz Stanton, report released with Friends of the Earth UK, October 2006.
"Is
NAFTA Working For Mexico?" by Kevin
P. Gallagher, The Environmental Forum, May/June
2006.
"Doha
Round and Developing Countries: Will the Doha deal
do more harm than good?" by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, RIS Policy
Brief #22, April 2006.
"Rethinking
Foreign Investment for Development,"
By Kevin P.Gallagher and Lyuba Zarsky, Published in
Post-Autistic Economics Review, Issue no.
37, April 28, 2006
"Implications of REACH for the Developing Countries," by Frank Ackerman (principal author), Liz Stanton, Rachel Massey, Brian Roach, and others; report from the International Chemical Secretariat (Chemsec) to the European Parliament. March, 2006. Also available in French: "Les Implications De Reach Pour Les Pays En Développement"
"Doha's
Hidden Price Tag" By Kevin P. Gallagher,
Bridges Trade Monthly, March-April, 2006.
"The
WTO's Development Crumbs," By Timothy
A. Wise, Foreign Policy in Focus, January
23, 2006
"Brazil:
Trading Away Industrial Development?"
Kevin P. Gallagher, IRC Americas Program Policy
Report, December 13, 2005
"The
Hong Kong Ministerial: What’s at Stake for the
Poor?" By Timothy A. Wise and Kevin
P. Gallagher, Bridges Trade Monthly, December
2005. (Also available in Spanish.)
"Preserving Policy Space
for Sustainable Development: The Subsidies Agreement
at the WTO," Francisco Aguayo
Ayala and Kevin P. Gallagher, Trade Knowledge
Network/IISD, December 2005.
"The
Doha Round's Development Impacts: Shrinking Gains
and Real Costs," RIS Policy Brief
#19, by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher,
November 2005.
"Revaluing
Peasant Coffee Production: Organic and Fair Trade
Markets in Mexico," by Muriel Calo
and Timothy A. Wise, October 2005.
"French
Industry and Sustainable Chemistry: The Benefits of
Clean Development," by
Frank Ackerman and Rachel Massey, October 2005.
"Building
a Healthy Economy: Chemicals Risk Management as a
Driver of Development," by Rachel
Massey, report for the Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate,
September 2005.
"Surviving
REACH: A Guide for Companies that Use Chemicals",
by Rachel Massey, The International Chemical Secretariat
(Chemsec), March 2005.
"CAFTA's
False Promise", by Kevin P. Gallagher,
Americas Program Policy Brief, International Relations
Center, March 21, 2005.
"The
True Costs of REACH", by Frank Ackerman
and Rachel Massey, Nordic Council of Ministers, December
2004.
"What
You Didn’t Learn in Ec 101",
Presentation by Neva Goodwin at the 15th Annual Social
Investment Forum, SRI in the Rockies, October 9, 2004.
"Organic
Turf Management at Tufts"
by Shannon Nally with Rachel Massey, Caleb
McClennen, and Dina Dubson. A project of the Tufts
Institute for the Environment (TIE) and the Global
Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), September
2004.
"Free
Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond,"
by Kevin P. Gallagher, Americas Program Policy Brief,
Interhemispheric Resource Center, September 17, 2004.
(Published in Spanish in La Jornada en la Economia,
August 9, 2004, "Libre
Comercio y Ecologia: El Paraiso Contaminante."
"Applying
Cost-Benefit Analysis to Past Decision: Was Protecting
the Environment Ever a Good Idea?" by
Frank Ackerman, Lisa Heinzerling, and Rachel Massey,
Center for Progressive Regulation White Paper
#401, July 2004.
"Flimsy
Firewalls: The Continuing Triumph of Efficiency over
Safety in Regulating Mad Cow Risks",
by Thomas O. McGarity with Frank Ackerman, a report
from the Center for Progressive Regulation, July 2004.
Globalization
and the Environment: Lessons from the Americas,
by the Working Group on Development and Environment
in the Americas, July 2004, Heinrich Boll Foundation.
“Fair
Trade in Tropical Crops is Possible: International
Commodity Agreements Revisited,”
by Niek Koning, Muriel Calo, and Roel Jongeneel. North-South
Centre Discussion Paper No. 3, Wangeningen University,
June 2004.
"Barking
Up the Wrong Tree: Agricultural Subsidies, Dumping,
and Policy Reform,"
Bridges Trade Monthly, May 2004.
(Also available
in Spanish, in Puentes entre el comercio y
el desarrollo sostenible.)
"The
Economics of Phasing Out PVC,"
Frank Ackerman and Rachel Massey, December
2003.
"Sustainable
Industrial Development? The Performance of Mexico’s
FDI-led Integration Strategy", Kevin
P. Gallagher, and Lyuba Zarsky, November 2003.
"Costs
of Preventable Childhood Illness: The Price We Pay
for Pollution",
Rachel Massey and Frank Ackerman, GDAE Working
Paper 03-09, September 2003.
"The
Environmental Review of the FTAA: Examining the U.S.
Approach," Kevin P. Gallagher, Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, Trade, Equity,
and Development Series, No. 7, August 2003.
NAFTA's
Untold Stories: Mexico's Grassroots Responses to North
American Integration, Timothy A. Wise,
Americas Program Policy Report (Silver City, NM: Interhemispheric
Resource Center, June 10, 2003).
"Sustainability
Assessments: Tools for Effective Trade Policy in the
Hemisphere", by Kevin P. Gallagher
and Hernán Blanco. Published by The Americas
Program, Interhemispheric Resource Center (IRC), April
9, 2003.
"Alternatives
to PVC: An Economic Analysis," by Frank
Ackerman, presentation delivered at the U.S. Green
Building Conference in Austin, Texas, November 2002.
"NAFTA:
A Cautionary Tale." by
Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher, published
by Foreign Policy in Focus and the "Americas
Program" of the Interhemispheric Resource Center,
October 24, 2002. (Also
available in Spanish.)
"Prospering
with Precaution", by Frank Ackerman and
Rachel Massey. In this commissioned report for the
Massachusetts-based Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow,
the authors argue that implementing the precautionary
principle is not just good science, it is also good
economics. (Report published August 2002.)
"Is
Nursing Shortage a Democracy Crisis?"
Op-Ed by Neva R. Goodwin, printed in The Providence
Journal, August 30, 2002.
"The
Billion-Dollar Bonus", by Kayo Tajima
and Frank Ackerman, op-ed article from The Boston
Globe on the value of creating open spaces following
highway renovations.
"The
Fiscal Impacts of Investment Provisions in U.S. Trade
Agreements." by Kevin P. Gallagher and
Frank Ackerman, published by Taxpayers for Common
Sense, May 2002.
"Economic
Analysis in Environmental Reviews of Trade Agreements:
Assessing the North American Experience."
by Kevin P. Gallagher, Frank Ackerman, and Luke Ney,
April 2002.
"Tree
Huggers No Longer!" by Frank Ackerman,
a review of Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist:
Measuring the State of the Real World, as it appeared
in The Nation, March 25, 2002.
"Is
the United States a Pollution Haven?"
by Frank Ackerman, published by Foreign Policy
in Focus and the "Americas Program"
of the Interhemispheric Resource Center, March 1,
2002. (Also
available in Spanish.)
"Fast
Track: Fix It or Nix It." by Kevin
Gallagher, published by Foreign Policy in Focus
and the "Americas Program" of the Interhemispheric
Resource Center, January 25, 2002. (Also
available in Spanish.)
Pricing
the Priceless: Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental
Regulation. by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling,
published by the Environmental Law and Policy Institute
of the Georgetown University Law Center, 2002.
"A
Retrospective Review of FERC's Environmental Impact
Statement on Open Transmission Access."
A report for the North American Commission for Environmental
Cooperation on energy deregulation in North America,
co-authored by Frank Ackerman with Tim Woolf, Geoff
Keith, and David White of Synapse Energy Economics,
October 19, 2001. (Available as PDF file from
Synapse
web site.)
"Have
Faith in Free Trade: The Greatest Story Oversold."
by Kevin Gallagher, Foreign Policy in Focus, June
2001.
"Can
Openers and Comparative Advantage: Alternative Theories
of Free Trade and Globalization." by
Frank Ackerman, Speech presented to the Environment
Forum of the Peoples' Summit of the Americas, April
2001.
"High
Risk Economics: Gambling on Cost-Benefit Analysis
for Arsenic Standards." Comments submitted
to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, August
2000.
GDAE
Submits Comments to USTR: Building on its critique
of the misuses of economic modeling in assessing the
potential environmental impacts of trade agreements,
GDAE and some of its Latin American collaborators
have submitted formal comments to the USTR on proposed
trade agreements. Those filings include:
- US-Chile
Free Trade Agreement -- Environmental Review:
Kevin Gallagher and Frank Ackerman, along with Hernan
Blanco and Annie Dufey of Chile's Center for Planning
and Research on the Environment (CIPMA), November
2001. Read
the comments (PDF).
- Free
Trade Area of the Americas -- Environmental Review
Methodology: "The Limits of Economic
Modeling in the FTAA Environmental Review."
(PDF) Frank Ackerman, Kevin Gallagher, and Alejandro
Nadal, January 2001.
- Free
Trade Area of the Americas -- General: "NAFTA:
A Cautionary Tale", by Kevin P. Gallagher and
Timothy A. Wise, September 2002.
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