Sumner La Croix
UHERO Research Fellow and Professor Emeritus of Economics
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington, 1981
M.A., Economics, University of Washington, 1979
B.A., Mathematics, University of Virginia, 1976
B.A., Political and Social Thought, University of Virginia, 1976
Research Interests
Economic History, Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Law and Economics
A Comparison of State-Level Carbon Reduction Strategies: A Case Study of Hawai‘i
Abstract: State-level electricity standards are proliferating and becoming more ambitious, with numerous US states adopting a Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) and a small but increasing
Sumner La Croix awarded the Best Paper of 2021 by Economic Record
A paper by UHERO’s Sumner La Croix, “Australia’s Forgotten Copper Mining Boom: Understanding How South Australia Avoided Dutch Disease” was awarded the Best Paper of
Economic and GHG impacts of a US state-level carbon tax: the case of Hawai’i
A new paper by a team from UHERO published in Climate Policy finds that a carbon tax for Hawai‘i set at the federal social cost