Frank Ackerman

Senior Scientist

frank.ackerman@sei-us.org

Frank Ackerman is an economist who has written extensively about the economics of climate change and other environmental problems. His most recent book, “Priceless: On Knowing the Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing,” is a critique of cost-benefit analysis and its abuse in US environmental policy. His forthcoming books, scheduled for late 2008, are “Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution” (Island Press), and “Can We Afford the Future? Economics for a Warming World” (Zed Press). He has written numerous academic and popular articles, and has directed policy reports for clients ranging from Greenpeace to the European Parliament. Having joined SEI in 2007, he continues to work jointly with Tufts University’s Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), a position he has held since 1995; much of his earlier work can be found on the GDAE website.

He is a founder and member of the steering committee of Economists for Equity and Environment (the E3 Network), and a member scholar of the Center for Progressive Reform.

Frank received his PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1975, and has taught economics at Tufts University and at the University of Massachusetts.

In addition to his day job, he plays the trumpet in the Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band, an amateur New Orleans-style band in the Boston area.