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George S. Tolley, Ph.D. George Tolley is a leader in the development of methods and applications of benefit estimation, and their use in policy. Principle interests include R&D policy and health economics. Much of his research has entailed inter-disciplinary work with scientists. He has a long record of joint work with Argonne National Laboratory. As President of RCF, he has conducted over 100 benefit-cost analyses, including studies of air quality standards for the City of Houston and location of nuclear waste sites for the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2004 he completed a year-long study of the commercial viability of nuclear power for the Undersecretary of Energy, including relationships between advanced nuclear reactors and a hydrogen economy. Since 2005 he has led a project for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to model investment in infrastructure during a transition to a hydrogen transportation economy in the United States, and in 2006 he led another study for DOE on the impact of a transition to hydrogen on employment in the United States. Dr. Tolley is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Chicago and President of RCF Economic and Financial Consulting, Inc. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from North Carolina State University. He founded and is now Honorary Editor of the Elsevier professional journal Resource and Energy Economics. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and is a founding member of the International Association of Energy Economics (IAEE). He has held executive positions in the Federal Government, including Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Policy and Director of the Economic Development Division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and has served on several committees of the National Academy of Sciences, including Automotive Pollution, Water Policy, and Energy Engineering. Dr. Tolley has published over 20 books, including several influential volumes in environmental and urban economics, over 100 journal articles and numerous book chapters, monographs, technical studies, book reviews and popular articles. Education A.B., American University of Texas, 1947 A.M., University of Chicago, 1950 Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1955 Selected Publications The Economics of R&D Policy, edited by George S. Tolley, James H. Hodge, and James F. Oemke. New York: Praeger, 1985. Valuing Health for Policy: An Economic Approach, co-editor. University of Chicago Press, 1994. (Donald Kenkel and Robert Fabian, co-editors.) The Economic Future of Nuclear Power. Chicago: University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory. August 2004. (Donald W. Jones, co-author) Effects of a Transition to a Hydrogen Economy on Employment in the United States. A Report to Congress for the U.S. Department of Energy, November 2006. (Donald W. Jones, co-author) Clearing Houston’s Air: An Economic Evaluation of Clean Air Act Compliance Strategy Alternatives. (Barton Smith, co-author.) Texas Public Policy Foundation, February, 2001. “Benefit-Cost Analysis and Environmental Regulation: Recent Developments,” Chapter 10, 1997 Wiley Environmental Law Update edited by Carole Stern and Christian Volz, Somerset, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997. (Robert Fabian, co-author). “Cost-effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic medications versus conventional medication,” Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy 7(13), September 2006. With Patricia Hanrahan, Daniel J. Luchins, and Robert Fabian. “Economic Grand Rounds: Allocating Funds for Medications and Psychosocial Interventions: How Consumers Would Divide the Pie,” Psychiatric Services, 56(7): 799-800, July 2005. (Daniel Luchins, Irinel Chiriac, Patricia Hanrahan, Morris Goldman, Robert Fabian, co-authors) “Child Discipline and Family Decision Making,” Journal of Socio-Economics 33(2):153- 173, April 2004. (Shaffdeen Amuwo, Robert Fabian, Ardith Spence, and Jacqueline Hill, co-authors.) “Contingent Valuation and Valuing Children’s Health,” Valuing Health for Environmental Policy with Special Emphasis on Children’s Health Issues. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Conference, Washington, D.C., March 23-24, 1999. Website: http://www.epa.gov/oppe/eaed/eedhmpg.htm (Robert Fabian, co -author.) “Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Common Sense of Environmental Policy.” In Cost-Benefit Analysis and Environmental Regulations: Politics, Ethics and Methods, co-edited by Daniel Swartzman, Richard A. Liroff and Kevin G. Croke. Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Foundation, 1982. “Social Costs and the Rural-Urban Balance.” Externalities in the Transformation of Agriculture: Distribution of Benefits and Costs from Developments, co- edited by Earl O. Heady and Larry R. Whiting. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1975. (Barton Smith, co- author.) Benefits and Costs of Soil Conservation in the South and its Subregions, Technical Bulletin No. 172, pp. 58, Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State Agricultural Experiment Station, 1966. (H. W. Grubb, co-author.) “Extensions of Benefit-Cost Analysis.” The American Economic Review 52 (1962): 459-468. (Cleon Harrell, co-author.)