Senior Fellow

Phone: +61 (0)2 612 54143
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: Jack.Pezzey@anu.edu.au

Professional Activities

Interaction between theories of sustainable development, economic growth, and measurement of national income. Political economy of using taxes, tradeable permits or property rights to control environmental damage at minimum overall cost, with main application being to controlling net emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. Limits to substitutability of human-made capital and knowledge for environmental resources in production and utility functions.

Further personal details, links to publications, course details, etc are available at: http://people.anu.edu.au/jack.pezzey

Chair of PhD supervisory panels of Phil Pagan and Qinghong Pu

Founder member, Economics and Environment Network

Academic Highlights

In 2002, with Quentin Grafton, I founded ANU's Economics and Environment Network.  In 2003-04, my PhD student Frank Jotzo (who completed in 2006) and I received a grant from the Hewlett Foundation through Stanford University to study the use of flexible country targets for abating greenhouse gas emissions.

Selected Publications

Jotzo, Frank and John C.V. Pezzey (forthcoming), "Optimal intensity targets for greenhouse gas emissions trading under uncertainty", in Environmental and Resource Economics.

Pezzey, John C.V., Nick Hanley, Karen Turner and Dugald Tinch 2006.. "Comparing augmented sustainability measures for Scotland: is there a mismatch?" Ecological Economics, Vol 57, 60-74.

Pezzey, John C.V. and Michael A. Toman 2005."Sustainability and its economic interpretations." In R.D. Simpson, M.A. Toman and R.U. Ayres, eds., Scarcity and Growth: Natural Resources and the Environment in the New Millennium, 121-141. Washington D.C.: RFF Press.

Pezzey, John C.V. 2004. "Sustainability policy and environmental policy." Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Vol 106 No 2, 339-359.

Pezzey, John C.V. 2004. "Exact measures of income in a hyperbolic economy." Environment and Development Economics, Vol 9 No 4, 473-484.

Pezzey, John C.V. 2004 ."One-sided sustainability tests with amenities, and changes in technology, trade and population." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol 48 No 1, 613-631.

Pezzey, John C.V. 2003. "Emission taxes and tradeable permits: a comparison of views on long run efficiency." Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol 26 No 2, 329-342.

Pezzey, John C.V. and John M. Anderies 2003.. "The effect of subsistence on collapse and institutional adaptation in population-resource societies". Journal of Development Economics, Vol 72, 299-320.

Pezzey, John C.V. 2003. "Measuring technical progress in gross and net products." Economics Letters, Vol 78 No 2, 247-252.