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'''Graciela Chichilnisky''' is an [[Argentine American]] [[mathematical economics|mathematical economist]] and an [[Expert|authority]] on [[climate change]]. She is a professor of economics at [[Columbia University]].<ref name="cv">[http://econ.columbia.edu/files/econ/gc_cv_may_2015_final_0.pdf Curriculum vitae] from Columbia University, May 2010, retrieved 2017-04-23.</ref><ref>[http://econ.columbia.edu/graciela-chichilnisky Faculty listing], Columbia Economics Department, retrieved 2017-04-23.</ref>. She is currently |
'''Graciela Chichilnisky''' is an [[Argentine American]] [[mathematical economics|mathematical economist]] and an [[Expert|authority]] on [[climate change]]. She is a professor of economics at [[Columbia University]].<ref name="cv">[http://econ.columbia.edu/files/econ/gc_cv_may_2015_final_0.pdf Curriculum vitae] from Columbia University, May 2010, retrieved 2017-04-23.</ref><ref>[http://econ.columbia.edu/graciela-chichilnisky Faculty listing], Columbia Economics Department, retrieved 2017-04-23.</ref>. She is currently co-founder and CEO of [http://www.globalthermostat.com Global Thermostat]. |
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==Background and education== |
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Graciela Chichilnisky | |
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| Born | |
| Nationality | Argentina / United States |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (PhD) |
| Known for | Carbon credit emissions trading (Kyoto Protocol) Topological theory of social choice Transfer paradox in international development aid |
| Awards | UNESCO Professorship |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Environmental economics Development economics International economics Welfare economics (Social choice) Mathematical economics Mathematics (Algebraic topology) |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerrold E. Marsden (first Ph.D.) Gérard Debreu (second Ph.D.) |
| Website | https://chichilnisky.com/ |
Graciela Chichilnisky is an Argentine American mathematical economist and an authority on climate change. She is a professor of economics at Columbia University.[1][2]. She is currently co-founder and CEO of Global Thermostat.
Background and education
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Chichilnisky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants. She had a child during high school. In July 1966 a military coup occurred; the Argentine military violently closed scientific faculties at the University of Buenos Aires on July 29 during La Noche de los Bastones Largos (The Night of the Long Batons). Without having any undergraduate degree, Chichilnisky matriculated in the doctoral program in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[3] where she was supported by a fellowship from the Ford Foundation.[1] She then moved to the University of California, Berkeley in 1968, where she completed her Ph.D. in mathematics in 1970, writing her thesis under the supervision of Jerrold E. Marsden. She then earned a second Ph.D. in economics in 1976 under the supervision of Gérard Debreu, a mathematical economist and Nobel laureate.[4]
Career
After a postdoctoral position at Harvard University, she accepted a position as an associate professor at Columbia in 1977, and received tenure there in 1979. While based at Columbia University, she was UNESCO Professor of Mathematics and Economics from 1995 to 2008. She held a chair in economics at the University of Essex from 1980 to 1981. She has also been a visiting professor at many other universities including at Stanford in 2017.[5][1][3]
In 2010 Graciela formed Global Thermostat, a company that specializes in Direct Air Capture from a unit that extracts carbon dioxide directly from air. Graciela formed this company with Peter Eisenberger and Edgar Bronfman Jr.
Research
Chichilnisky is the author of over 17 books and over 330 scientific research papers. She is best known for proposing and designing the carbon credit emissions trading market underlying the Kyoto Protocol which was international law since 2005, and was a lead author on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won the 2007 Nobel Prize.[6]
In the theory of international trade, she constructed an example of a "transfer paradox", where a transfer of goods from a donor to a recipient can render the recipient worse off and the donor better off, thus responding to a long-standing question in international economics. In developmental economics, she constructed examples where export-led growth strategies for developing countries could result in paradoxically poor results, because of increasing returns to scale in the technologies of the developed countries. In welfare economics and voting theory, particularly in the specialty of social choice theory, Chichilnisky introduced a continuous model of collective decisions to which she applied algebraic topology to achieve striking results; following her initiatives, continuous social choice has developed as an international subdiscipline. During the 1980s and 1990s some of Chichilnisky's research was done in collaboration with mathematical economist Geoffrey M. Heal, who has been her colleague at Essex and Columbia.
Litigation
In 1994 Chichilnisky sued two other economics professors, accusing them of stealing her ideas. Chichilnisky was countersued and dropped her lawsuit. The subject matter of the controversy was described in contemporaneous news reports as "distinctly small-time stuff, at least according to most experts." [7] In 1991 and 2000 Chichilnisky sued her employer Columbia University concerning allegations of gender discrimination, pay inequality, and attempts by the university to dissolve her endowed chair. The latter suit was settled in 2008 under undisclosed terms;[3][8][9] The New York Sun reported that Chichilnisky received $200,000, "a substantial amount of money," Chichilnisky said. "And that has to do with who is right and who is wrong." According to Columbia's spokesperson, "Chichilnisky signed a statement that her salary was not discriminatory".[10]
Selected publications
Peer-reviewed articles
- Chichilnisky, Graciela (1994). "North-South Trade and the Global Environment". The American Economic Review. 84 (4): 851–874. JSTOR 2118034.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela (1996). "An axiomatic approach to sustainable development". Social Choice and Welfare. 13 (2): 231–257. doi:10.1007/BF00183353. ISSN 0176-1714.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey (February 1998). "Economic returns from the biosphere". Nature. 391 (6668): 629–630. doi:10.1038/35481. ISSN 0028-0836.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela (2000). "An axiomatic approach to choice under uncertainty with catastrophic risks". Resource and Energy Economics. 22 (3): 221–231. doi:10.1016/s0928-7655(00)00032-4. ISSN 0928-7655.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela (August 1980). "Social choice and the topology of spaces of preferences". Advances in Mathematics. 37 (2): 165–176. doi:10.1016/0001-8708(80)90032-8. ISSN 0001-8708.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey (October 1983). "Necessary and sufficient conditions for a resolution of the social choice paradox". Journal of Economic Theory. 31 (1): 68–87. doi:10.1016/0022-0531(83)90021-2. ISSN 0022-0531.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey (April 1994). "Who should abate carbon emissions?". Economics Letters. 44 (4): 443–449. doi:10.1016/0165-1765(94)90119-8. ISSN 0165-1765.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela; Heal, Geoffrey; Beltratti, Andrea (August 1995). "The Green Golden Rule". Economics Letters. 49 (2): 175–179. doi:10.1016/0165-1765(95)00662-y. ISSN 0165-1765.
- Beltratti, Andrea; Chichilnisky, Garciela; Heal, Geoffrey (December 1994). "The environment and the long run: a comparison of different criteria". Ricerche Economiche. 48 (4): 319–340. doi:10.1016/0035-5054(94)90011-6. ISSN 0035-5054.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela; Gruenwald, Paul F. (June 1995). "Existence of an optimal growth path with endogenous technical change". Economics Letters. 48 (3–4): 433–439. doi:10.1016/0165-1765(94)00594-r. ISSN 0165-1765.
Book Chapters
- Beltratti, A., Chichilnisky, G. and Heal, G., 1998. Sustainable use of renewable resources. In Sustainability: Dynamics and Uncertainty (pp. 49–76). Springer Netherlands.
Books
- Chichilnisky, Graciela (1998). Mathematical economics. Vol. Volume One. E. Elgar Pub. ISBN 978-1-85898-260-1.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Chichilnisky, Graciela (1998). Mathematical Economics. Vol. Volume Two. E. Elgar Pub. ISBN 978-1-85898-260-1.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Chichilnisky, Graciela (1998). Mathematical Economics. Vol. Volume Three. E. Elgar Pub. ISBN 978-1-85898-260-1.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - Chichilnisky, Graciela (2009). Saving Kyoto. New Holland Publisher (UK) Ltd. ISBN 978-1847734310.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela (1998). Topology and Markets. American Mathematical Society. ISBN 9780821871300.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela (2007). The Economics of the Global Environment: Catastrophic Risks in Theory and Policy. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783319319414.
- Chichilnisky, Graciela (2017). Encyclopaedia of Econometrics: Theory and Applications. Blackwells KOROS PRESS LTD. ISBN 978-1785694646.
- Oil and the International Economy (1991) ISBN 978-0198285175
- The Evolving International Economy (1987) ISBN 978-0521267168
- Sustainability, Dynamics and Uncertainty (1998) ISBN 978-9401060516
- Markets, Information and Uncertainty: Essays in Economic Theory in Honor of Kenneth J. Arrow (1999) ISBN 9780521553551
- Catastrophe or new society?: A Latin American world model (1976) ISBN 978-0889360839
- Development and Global Finance: The Case for an International Bank for Environmental Settlements (1997) ISBN 978-9211260649
- Environmental Markets: Equity and Efficiency (2000) ISBN 978-0231504478
- The Economics of Climate Change (2010) ISBN 978-1847207678
- Reversing Climate Change (2018) ISBN 978-9814719353
- Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change (2018) ISBN 978-0857939050
Awards and recognition
Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky was selected by IAIR® (International Alternative Investment Review) as the 2015 CEO of the Year in Sustainability.[11]
References
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae from Columbia University, May 2010, retrieved 2017-04-23.
- ^ Faculty listing, Columbia Economics Department, retrieved 2017-04-23.
- ^ a b c Fogg, Piper (October 17, 2003), "A Lone Woman Takes on Columbia", Chronicle of Higher Education.
- ^ Chichilnisky's CV
- ^ "Graciela Chichilnisky | SIEPR". siepr.stanford.edu. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ Siegle, Lucy (14 November 2010). "Graciela Chichilnisky's innovation: carbon capturing". the Guardian. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ Warsh, David (May 5, 1996), "A bitter battle illuminates an esoteric world", Boston Globe. Reprinted by the Chicago Tribune, May 6, 2006.
- ^ Chichilnisky v. Columbia University, American Association of University Women, retrieved 2011-01-17.
- ^ Strauss, Valerie (December 3, 2007), "Taking on the Economics of Gender Inequity", Washington Post.
- ^ Goldberg, Ross (July 1, 2008), "Columbia, Prof. Reach Second Gender Dispute Settlement", New York Sun.
- ^ "Graciela Chichilnisky Selected As 2015 CEO of the Year". Retrieved 2018-04-17.
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