Ed Dolan

Biography

Edwin G. Dolan holds a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. Early in his career, he was a member of the economics faculty at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and George Mason University. From 1990 to 2001, he taught in Moscow, Russia, where he and his wife founded the American Institute of Business and Economics (AIBEc), an independent, not-for-profit MBA program. Since 2001, he has taught global macroeconomics, managerial economics, money and banking, and other courses at several universities in Europe, including Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where he has an ongoing annual visiting appointment. He is the author of Introduction to Economics (BVT Publishing) and numerous academic articles. When not lecturing abroad, he makes his home in Washington’s San Juan Islands.

Latest articles from Ed

• Exporting U.S. Natural Gas: Yes or No?

  Published 13 May 2013 | viewed 1,629 times

  The energy policy topic of the week is whether to export more of America’s newly abundant natural gas. Like any good card-carrying economist, my instincts…

• Fareed Zakaria’s Unconvincing Arguments to Build the Keystone XL Pipeline

  Published 11 March 2013 | viewed 2,217 times

  Watching the Sunday talk shows this week, I learned that the influential journalist Fareed Zakaria has now joined the chorus urging construction of Keystone pipeline.…

• A Carbon Tax may Curb the Rise in Natural Gas Flaring

  Published 11 February 2013 | viewed 1,754 times

  After a few years when the practice was declining, flaring of natural gas is back in the news. (See, for example, Flares take shine off…

• What Stands in the Way of Natural Gas Replacing Gasoline in the US?

  Published 08 January 2013 | viewed 5,633 times

  The natural gas revolution has brought big changes to the U.S. energy scene. Natural gas prices, which used to move closely together with oil prices,…

• The Renewable Energy Illusion

  Published 10 December 2012 | viewed 3,992 times

  Are solar, wind, and other alternatives the magic bullets that will solve the world’s environmental and energy problems? Take a closer look, says Ozzie Zehner…

• Energy and Tax Policies Must be Reconsidered as Wind Subsidy Comes to an End

  Published 26 September 2012 | viewed 4,896 times

  Wind power has been a success story of green energy. After several years of rapid growth, it now accounts for about 3 percent of all…

• Can the Fed Survive After QE3?

  Published 19 September 2012 | viewed 3,758 times

  Each time the Fed undertakes a new program of quantitative easing, questions arise about the possible impact on its solvency. I addressed that concern in…

• Looking for Alternatives to the Renewable Fuels Standard

  Published 15 August 2012 | viewed 1,654 times

  During the debate over the Obama administration’s health care policy, Republicans came up with the catchy phrase “repeal and replace.” I’ll get back to health…

• How Indian Farmers are Making Millions from the Fracking Boom

  Published 24 July 2012 | viewed 2,725 times

  A New York Times story last week featured a picture of a happy Indian farmer in his new house, a replacement for a miserable mud…

• Faith in the Feds Ability to Hit Inflation Targets Continues to Fall

  Published 18 July 2012 | viewed 1,445 times

  The latest inflation data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show the CPI unchanged in June, following a 0.3 percent decrease in May. For the…

• An Economic Analysis of Fracking

  Published 08 May 2012 | viewed 6,848 times

  When people look at “fracking”—the production of natural gas through hydraulic fracturing techniques–they see different things. Critics see polluted wells, exploding houses, and earthquakes—an environmental…

• So far High Gasoline Prices are not Affecting Inflation

  Published 16 April 2012 | viewed 2,445 times

  Recently many commentators have worried that rising gasoline prices will derail the fragile recovery of the U.S. economy. The latest inflation report from the Bureau…

• Energy Secretary Chu was Right, US Gas Prices Need to be Higher

  Published 19 March 2012 | viewed 2,565 times

  Why would a president want to bring an eminent scientist like Energy Secretary Steven Chu into government? In the hope, one would suppose, that he…

• US Court of Appeals Yet Again Delays the EPA’s Attempts to Reduce Pollution

  Published 14 January 2012 | viewed 2,316 times

  On December 30, The U.S. Court of Appeals for Washington, D.C. stayed implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR), which…

• Fast-Tracking the Keystone XL Pipeline and the Need for a Comprehensive Energy Policy

  Published 29 December 2011 | viewed 1,515 times

  The administration is coming under increasing pressure to accelerate approval of the Keystone XL pipeline, designed to carry increased U.S. imports of bitumen from Canadian…

• Is Spaceship Earth Close to Environmental Collapse?

  Published 02 November 2011 | viewed 1,816 times

  According to the United Nations, the world population will reach 7 billion people this week. No one really knows the exact date, but the announcement…

• The Economic and Environmental Costs of Natural Gas Flaring

  Published 30 September 2011 | viewed 4,150 times

  To an alien orbiting Earth in a flying saucer, natural gas flares would be one of the most visible signs of human life on earth.…

• Obama Rolling Back Environmental Regulations to Fix the Job Problem

  Published 15 September 2011 | viewed 2,815 times

  Just when it seemed nothing could do it, persistently high U.S. unemployment has produced bipartisan agreement in Washington—agreement to roll back environmental protection in an…

• Fuel Taxes vs Fuel Economy: Are Stricter Fuel Economy Standards a Good Idea?

  Published 19 July 2011 | viewed 2,975 times

  According to news reports, the Obama administration is talking to automakers about raising the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard for passenger cars to 56.2 miles…

• Are Ethanol Subsidies on the Way Out?

  Published 19 May 2011 | viewed 3,596 times

  As recently as last December, the coalition backing U.S. ethanol subsidies appeared to be alive and well, despite the fact that everyone knew they were…