Jerry Taylor

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Jerry Taylor is among the most widely cited and influential critics of federal energy and environmental policy in the nation. Taylor is a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal and National Review and appears regularly on CNBC, NPR, Bloomberg Radio, the BBC, and Fox News. His op-eds on public policy have appeared in the pages of The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and most other major dailies. His extended essays on energy policy have appeared in The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, The Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Limes: The Italian Journal of Geopolitics, The Milken Institute Review, and Regulation magazine.

Taylor has served on several congressional advisory bodies and has testified frequently on Capitol Hill regarding various energy and environmental policy matters. He is the author or coauthor of numerous Cato policy studies addressing energy taxes, the oil market, electricity regulation, energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable development, and trade and the environment. He has also contributed to several anthologies, including The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2007), Energy & American Society — 13 Myths (2007), The Republican Revolution 10 Years Later (2005), Earth Report 2000 (2000), China as a Global Economic Power (1997), and Market Liberalism (1993).

Taylor is a member of the International Association for Energy Economics and has refereed articles for their publication, The Energy Journal. He is also an adjunct scholar at the Institute for Energy Research.

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Books and Book Chapters

"The Delegation of Legislative Powers," Chapter 7 of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th edition.

"Energy Policy," Chapter 43 of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th edition.

"Environmental Policy," Chapter 44 of the Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th edition.

"Energy Myth Five — Price Signals are Insufficient to Induce Efficient Energy Investments," in Chapter 6 of Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths,(Springer, 2007).

"Energy," in The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, ed by David Henderson (Liberty Fund, 2007).

Cato Studies

"Don't Increase Federal Gasoline Taxes—Abolish Them," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Policy Analysis no. 598, August 7, 2007.

"Economic Amnesia: The Case against Oil Price Controls and Windfall Profit Taxes," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Policy Analysis no. 561, January 12, 2006.

"The Case against the Strategic Petroleum Reserve," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Policy Analysis no. 555, November 21, 2005.

"CNOOC Bid for Unocal No Threat to Energy Security," Free Trade Bulletin no. 19, July 19, 2005.

"Rethinking Electricity Restructuring," by Peter Van Doren and Jerry Taylor, Policy Analysis no. 530, November 30, 2004.

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Articles and Newsletters

"CBO Report Underestimates Costs of the Corn–Ethanol Tax Credit: Four Compelling Reasons Why the CBO Should Update Their Study," by Jerry Taylor and Harry de Gorter, Biofuels, Vol. 2, No. 1.

"An Economic Critique of Corn-Ethanol Subsidies," Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Regional Economic Development, 2009, 5(1), pp. 78-97.

"The Energy Security Obsession," The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy, Summer 2008, Vol. 6, No. 2.

"The Energy Security Obsession," by Jerry Taylor and Peter Van Doren, Limes: The Italian Journal of Geopolitics, November 23, 2007. (PDF, 76kb., 14 pp)

"Alternative Energy in the Dock," Public Policy for Debate, Ripon Society, Fall 2007. (PDF, 441kb., 8 pp)

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