"Richard Taylor Carson" is a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts/B.A. degree from Mississippi State University in 1977, an Master of Arts/M.A. in international relations/international affairs from George Washington University in 1979, and an M.A. in statistics and a Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985. He is the author or editor of eight books and over a hundred journal articles, and he is the most cited Environmental economics/environmental economist in the world, with over 4000 citations to his works.

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The kids did a great job at halftime. They didn't panic. They listened to the coaches who did a great job making the adjustments. We're going to learn from this one. We're going to learn from the one next week and hopefully get a victory.

They are a very good football team, ... They have 17 starters back from a playoff team and they have seniors and they're good.

We needed to determine the value of the resource before it was damaged, and what should have been spent to protect it.

Allowing the large fraction of wetlands in New Orleans to disappear is an extremely expensive thing.

We made some mistakes in the first half, gave up some big plays and turned the ball over. I told the kids, don't quit, don't give up and play hard the second half.

(The faculty said) we should be doing something, because we like to teach that to the kids.