Staff profile

Professor Harry Clarke

Professor

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

School of Economics

Whitehead, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

B.A (Mac)., B.A. (hons1, Macq), MEc (ANU), PhD (ANU)

Membership of professional associations

Economic Society of Australia, American Economic Association, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Econometric Society, Natural Resource Modeling Forum

Area of study

Economics

Consulting

Climate change, environmental economics, transport, economics of licit and illicit drugs

Recent publications

  • “Institutional Design for Biodiversity Conservation”, Agenda, 9, 1, 2002, 305-330.
  • “Public Policy for Controlling Heroin Use”, Australian Economic Papers, 42, 2, 2003, 234-258. 
  • “International Biodiversity Conservation Agreements”, Natural Resource Modelling, 16, 3, 2003, 245-257.
  • “Should Australia Target Its Population Size”, Invited contribution, Economic Papers, 22, 1, 2003, 24-35.
  • (with D. Prentice, J. Shannon & K. Wade) Population Movement in Regional Victoria, For the Department of Treasury and Finance, La Trobe University, February, 2005.
  • (*) (with W. Reed) “Consumption/Pollution Tradeoffs in an Environment Vulnerable to Pollution-Related Catastrophic Collapse” in M. Hoel (ed)
  • Recent Developments in Environmental Economics, Critical Writings in Economics, Elgar Reference, 2006, 497-516.
  • (with A. Hawkins) “Economic Framework for Melbourne Traffic Planning”, Agenda, 13, 1, 2006, 63-80.
  • “Conserving Biodiversity in the Face of Climate Change”, Agenda, 14, 2, 2007, 157-170.  Reprinted in P.S. Ranade (ed) Climate Change and Biodiversity: Perspectives and Mitigation Strategies, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2008, 190-209.
  • “Comment on James Giesecke: The Economic Impact of a General Increase in Skilled Migration”, People and Place, 15, 2, 2007, 12-14.
  • “The Economist’s Way of Thinking About Alcohol Policy”, Agenda, 15, 2, 2008, 27-42.
  • “Targeting Urban Congestion: Equity and Second-Best Issues”, Australian Economic Review, 41, 2, 2008, 177-186.
  • ‘Addictive Drug Use Management Policies in a Long-Run Economic Model’, Australian Economic Papers (accepted for revision 2008).
  • “Classical Decision Rules and the Economics of Climate Change”, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 52, 2008, 487-504.  
  • “Taxing Sin: Some Economics of Smoking, Gambling and Alcohol”, Melbourne Review, 4, 2, November 2008, 30-3.
  • “The End of Free Market Fundamentalism Not of the Mixed Economy”, Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, 28, 4, 2009, 376-382.
  • “Strategic Issues in Global Climate Change Policy: An Economic Perspective”, Invited Address at the Beijing Forum, Peking University, November 7-9 2008.  Published in Proceedings of Beijing Forum, Ecological Civilisation: Environment, Energy and Social Evolution, Beijing Forum Organising Committee, 155-181. Revision in Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 54, 2, 2010, 165-184.
  • “Carbon Leakages, Consumption-based Carbon Taxes and International Climate Change Agreements”, Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, 29, 2, June 2010, 156-168.
  • “From the Editor: A Case for Public Sector Involvement in Public Economic Debates”, Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, 29, 2, June 2010, 97-98.
  • “Formulating Policy Responses to Global Warming in the Face of Uncertainty”, Agenda, 17, 1, 33-54, 2010.  
  • “Trade Policy and the Global Environment”, Surveys and Perspectives Integrating Environment and Society, S.A.P.I.E.N.S., 3, 2, 2010.
  • “Rising and Falling Stars: Economic Imbalances and the Need to Address Global Environmental Constraints”, in Beijing Forum 2010, Global Imbalances and Their Solution, Beijing Forum Secretariat, Beijing, 2010.
  • (with David Prentice) “Reforming Taxes, Charges and Supply Decisions in the Australian Road Transport Sector”, Tax Policy Journal, 6, 2010, 14-20 (here). 
  • (with David Prentice) “Reforming Taxes and Charges on Australian Road Transport” in C. Evans, R. Krever & P. Mellor (eds) Australia’s Future Tax System: The Prospects After Henry. Essays in Honour of John W. Freebairn, Thomson Reuters, Pyrmont 2010, 389-416.
  • ‘From the Editor: A Case for Public Sector Involvement in Public Economic Debates’, Economic Papers: A Journal of Applied Economics and Policy, 29, 2, June 2010, 97-98.
  • ‘Some Basic Economics of Carbon Taxes’, Australian Economic Review, (forthcoming 2011).
  • “How to Solve Beijing’s Traffic Woes”,  paper presented at the 2010 Symposium on China’s Public Finance, Urbanization and China’s Public Finance, October 16-17, 2010, Peking University, forthcoming in Conference Proceedings (in Chinese).
  • “Environmental Policies with Efficient Pricing and Poverty-Based Transfers in China”, Paper presented at Peking Normal University, Beijing China, September 2010.