Richard Taylor Carson is a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. He obtained a B.A. degree from Mississippi State University in 1977, an M.A. in 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, with over 4000 citations to his works.
- Occupation
- economist, researcher, adviser, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 24, 1955
- Website
- http://economics.ucsd.edu/about/Profile.aspx?pid=26, http://www.econ.ucsd.edu/~rcarson
