Karl Seeley

Dr. Karl Seeley joined Hartwick's economics department in September 2002, after working as an economic analyst at the Washington State Department of Ecology. He completed his Ph.D. in environmental economics at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he received a Grover and Creta Ensley Fellowship in public policy. He originally came to the University of Washington as a Jackson Fellow at the Jackson School of International Studies, where he researched pollution reduction in eastern Europe and finished an M.A. in East European Studies. Before turning to economics, Karl studied trumpet at the Indiana University School of Music, where he completed an M.M. and taught music theory.

Karl's main professional interests are environmental economics and economic development. He has also been involved with small-scale, sustainable farming and local food-supply issues.

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Work

Does technological innovation really reduce marginal abatement costs?, with Yoram Bauman and Myunghun Lee, Environmental and Resource Economics (2008) 40:507-527

A macro-environmental synthesis, a working paper on grafting textbook macroeconomics onto an ecological rootstock.

Public talks

The solar constraint After-dinner remarks at the 2007 awards dinner of the Otsego County Conservation Alliance

The power of the powerless (with apologies to Václav Havel) Guest sermon at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta

The crisis of desire Brief remarks at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Oneonta, for Earth Day 2008

Notes from the Moscow putsch  An eyewitness account from August, 1991

Biophysical economics is a new field that views economics as the study of how societies provision themselves, given the realities of ecosystems, geological resources, and physical laws.