Robert Deacon

About The Author

Robert T. Deacon is Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and University Fellow at Resources for the Future. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington and has also served as the Julian Simon Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center; Visiting Foreign Scholar, Institute for Social and Economic Research, Osaka University; Visiting Professor, International Center for Higher Education on Agronomics in the Mediterranean, Zaragoza, Spain; Guest Professor, University of Witten-Herdecke; Visiting Scholar, CentER, Tilburg University; and National Fellow, Hoover Institution.

Books by Robert Deacon

Taxing Energy

Oil Severance Taxation and the Economy

By Robert Deacon, Stephen DeCanio, H. E. Frech III and M. Bruce Johnson
Severance taxes—taxes levied upon the production of oil and natural gas—have long been popular with state governments. Such taxes are thought to have minimal impact upon the areas where petroleum wells are located, the costs of such taxes can be “exported” to a large and dispersed consumer base i...
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