GeoVerse Lab
← Economics, Policy & Strategy Division

Policy Analysis & Regulation Center

Evaluates energy and environmental policies, regulations, and governance frameworks for sustainable resource management, providing evidence-based policy recommendations and regulatory impact analysis on topics like carbon pricing and subsidy reform.

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Herbert Simon🔑
⭐ Center Chief
Herbert Simon
Center Head
💡 Bounded rationality, decision theory
Thomas Schelling🔑
1921–2016
Thomas Schelling
Researcher
💡 Founded agent-based modeling of emergent social phenomena through his segregation model and applied game theory to strategic policy bargaining and international negotiation
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
John H. Dales🔑
1920–2007
John H. Dales
Researcher
💡 Proposed markets in pollution rights in his 1968 book, founding the theory of cap-and-trade emissions trading later adopted worldwide in carbon markets
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Roland McKean🔑
1917–1993
Roland McKean
Researcher
💡 Co-developed the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) and founded systems analysis-based cost-effectiveness analysis for public expenditure decisions
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Agnar Sandmo🔑
1938–2019
Agnar Sandmo
Researcher
💡 Developed the theory of optimal taxation in the presence of externalities, providing the applied public-finance foundation for real-world carbon tax design
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Murray Turoff🔑
1936–2022
Murray Turoff
Researcher
💡 Pioneered computer-mediated communication and networked Delphi methods, scaling structured expert policy consultation into real-time collaborative decision-support systems
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Elinor Ostrom🔑
1933–2012
Elinor Ostrom
Researcher
💡 Founded the institutional-analysis framework for how communities self-govern shared resources without top-down regulation or full privatization, winning the 2009 Nobel Prize
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Barbara Ward🔑
1914–1981
Barbara Ward
Researcher
💡 Co-authored the intellectual framework for the 1972 UN Stockholm Conference and founded the International Institute for Environment and Development, shaping modern global environmental governance
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
James Meade🔑
1907–1995
James Meade
Researcher
💡 Developed welfare-economic theory of distributive justice and the just distribution of gains from economic change, foundational to modern just-transition policy design
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Thomas L. Saaty🔑
1926–2017
Thomas L. Saaty
Researcher
💡 Invented the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the standard multi-criteria decision analysis method for comparing policy alternatives against conflicting criteria
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Fred Charles Iklé🔑
1924–2011
Fred Charles Iklé
Researcher
💡 Founded the systematic strategic analysis of how nations negotiate, verify, and comply with international agreements, foundational to designing enforceable climate treaties
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
George Stigler🔑
1911–1991
George Stigler
Researcher
💡 Founded the economic theory of regulation and regulatory capture, explaining why regulatory agencies are often captured by the industries they regulate
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Harold Lasswell🔑
1902–1978
Harold Lasswell
Researcher
💡 Founded the policy sciences as a systematic, multi-actor discipline for studying the policy process, establishing the conceptual basis for stakeholder analysis
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Aaron Wildavsky🔑
1930–1993
Aaron Wildavsky
Researcher
💡 Founded the systematic discipline of policy analysis and implementation studies, establishing the methodology later used for regulatory impact assessment
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
Paul MacAvoy🔑
1934–2016
Paul MacAvoy
Researcher
💡 Analyzed the economic effects of energy price regulation and led the empirical case for natural gas and electricity market liberalization and subsidy/price-control reform
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center
William D. Ruckelshaus🔑
1932–2019
William D. Ruckelshaus
Researcher
💡 Founded and twice led the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, establishing the institutional and risk-based regulatory philosophy for overseeing novel and hazardous technologies
💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy DivisionPolicy Analysis & Regulation Center