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

• An Economic Analysis of Fracking

  Published 08 May 2012 | viewed 1,892 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 939 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 1,531 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 1,342 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 536 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 1,121 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 2,062 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 2,001 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 1,760 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 2,278 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…

• Why Do Environmentalists Hate Capitalism?

  Published 29 April 2011 | viewed 4,511 times

  It has been twenty years now since first glasnost and then the collapse of the USSR lifted the curtain on the appalling environmental record of…

• Oil Price Shocks and Monetary Policy

  Published 28 March 2011 | viewed 2,739 times

  Inflation rates are rising in the world's major economies. The consumer price index rose by half a percent in the United States in February, equivalent…

• Move Aside Ethanol - Compressed Natural Gas is a Better Gasoline Replacement

  Published 18 March 2011 | viewed 8,916 times

  Ethanol is finally getting the bad press (1) (2) it richly deserves. Cracks are even beginning to appear in its once-solid support on Capitol Hill.…

• Could a Variable Oil Tax Make this the Last Oil Price Shock?

  Published 03 March 2011 | viewed 1,426 times

  It must be Groundhog Day. Events in Libya have pushed world oil prices over $100 a barrel yet again. Retail gasoline prices, usually low this…

• A Look at Pakistan’s Deep Economic Weaknesses

  Published 28 January 2011 | viewed 1,968 times

  In a recent White House meeting with President Asif Ali Zadari of Pakistan, US President Barack Obama underscored the importance of the US-Pakistani relationship and…

• Does Charging for Electricity Provide an Effective Incentive for Conservation?

  Published 19 January 2011 | viewed 1,090 times

  Economists can't always conduct controlled experiments to test hypotheses about public policy, but sometimes experiments occur naturally. New York City electric rates provide an example.…

• India’s Secret Economic Weapon in its Race With China

  Published 18 January 2011 | viewed 3,360 times

  The eclipse of the G7 by the G20 puts the spotlight more than ever on India and China as the economic superpowers of the future.…

• U.S. Ethanol Policy Contradicting Every Principle of Sound Economics

  Published 17 January 2011 | viewed 3,455 times

  U.S corn farmers and ethanol distillers are among those celebrating passage of last month's tax bill. A little-noticed provision of the law extends ethanol tax…

• Is a Weak Dollar Really a Bad Thing?

  Published 15 January 2011 | viewed 1,584 times

  One of the top themes for 2010 in economics, politics, and diplomacy was the damage being done to the U.S. economy by an undervalued Chinese…

• Investors Beware: Hidden Dangers of Increasing U.S. Dependence on Canadian Oil Sands

  Published 13 January 2011 | viewed 1,994 times

  Canada is the biggest supplier of oil imports to the United States. Increasingly, those imports come from its vast reserves of oil sands. Is the…