Tony Harding
Assistant Professor
- School of Public Policy
- School of Economics
Overview
Anthony Harding is an environmental economist with research interests at the intersection of innovative technologies and climate policy. He uses economic theory and applied econometrics to analyze the extent of socioeconomic risks from climate change, how policy and technologies can moderate these risks, and what impacts, intended or otherwise, policies may have. Before returning to Georgia Tech, Harding was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Research Areas:
- Climate Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Energy Economics
- Energy Economics
- Energy, Climate and Environmental Policy
- Environmental Economics
- ECON-2100: Economics and Policy
- ECON-2106: Prin of Microeconomics
- ECON-4440: Economics of Environment
- ECON-6150: Cost-Benefit Analysis
- PUBP-6120: Cost Benefit Analysis for Policy
- PUBP-6312: Economics-Environ Polcy
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
- Climate Econometric Models Indicate Solar Geoengineering Would Reduce Inter-country Income Inequality
In: Nature Communications [Peer Reviewed]
Date: January 2020
Exploring heterogeneity in the economic impacts of solar geoengineering is a fundamental step towards understanding the risk tradeoff associated with a geoengineering option. To evaluate impacts of solar geoengineering and greenhouse gas-driven climate change on equal terms, we apply macroeconomic impact models that have been widely applied to climate change impacts assessment. Combining historical evidence with climate simulations of mean annual temperature and precipitation, we project socio-economic outcomes under high anthropogenic emissions for stylized climate scenarios in which global temperatures are stabilized or over-cooled by blocking solar radiation. We find impacts of climate changes on global GDP-per-capita by the end of the century are temperature-driven, highly dispersed, and model dependent. Across all model specifications, however, income inequality between countries is lower with solar geoengineering. Consistent reduction in inter-country inequality can inform discussions of the distribution of impacts of solar geoengineering, a topic of concern in geoengineering ethics and governance debates.
- Towards Deep De-carbonization: An Energy-Service System Framework
In: Current Renewable/Sustainable Energy Reports [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2017
- Solar geoengineering economics: From incredible to inevitable and half-way back
In: Earth's Future [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2016