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 Head

💡 Bounded rationality, decision theory

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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