Lawrence H. Goulder.

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Lawrence H. Goulder is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program in Public Economics. He is also an Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of Stanford's Institute for International Studies, and a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, a nonprofit environmental and natural resource research firm located in Washington, D.C.

Goulder graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in philosophy in 1973. He earned an M.A. in musical composition from the [acute{E}]cole Normale de Musique de Paris in 1975 and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford in 1982. He was a faculty member in the economics department at Harvard University before returning to Stanford in 1989.

Goulder has served as a consultant to the...