Professor Emeritus
Anthony Fisher is Professor of the Graduate School in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has researched, taught, and consulted in the field of environmental and resource economics since 1977. His areas of specialization have included the theory and practice of environmental resource valuation, theory of exhaustible resource extraction and exploration, energy/economy modeling, and the allocation of ground and surface water, especially under drought conditions. His recent research focuses primarily on aspects of the economics of climate change.
Professor Fisher has served on the Board of Directors, as Vice President, and as President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and is a Fellow of the Association. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals in the field and has served on committees of the National Academy of Sciences and on the National Science Foundation’s panel for the program on global environmental change.
Professor Fisher has published extensively in both general economics journals and in journals specializing in environmental and resource economics. His book, Resource and Environmental Economics, published by Cambridge University Press, has been widely used in graduate courses in the United States and abroad. His article, “Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility,” in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, co-authored with Kenneth Arrow, received the 1995 award for publication of enduring quality from the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
A.B., Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University
Articles
Fisher, Anthony C., J.V. Krutilla, and C.J. Cicchetti. “The Economics of Environmental Preservation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis.” American Economic Review, Vol. 62, No. 4 (September, 1972), pp. 605-619.
Fisher, Anthony C. “A Paradox in the Theory of Public Investment.” Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 2, No. 4 (November, 1973), pp. 405-407.
Arrow, K.J., and Anthony C. Fisher. “Environmental Preservation, Uncertainty, and Irreversibility.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LXXXVIII, No. 2 (May, 1974), pp. 312-319.
Fisher, Anthony C., and J.V. Krutilla. “Resource Conservation, Environmental Preservation and the Rate of Discount.” Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. LXXXIX, No. 3 (August, 1975), pp. 358-370.
Cicchetti, C.J., Anthony C. Fisher, and V.K. Smith. “An Econometric Evaluation of a Generalized Consumer Surplus Measure: The Mineral King Controversy.” Econometrica, Vol. 44, No. 6 (November, 1976), pp. 1259-1276.
Fisher, Anthony C., and F.M. Peterson. “The Exploitation of Extractive Resources.” Economic Journal, Vol. 87, No. 348 (December, 1977), pp. 681-721.
Devarajan, S., and Anthony C. Fisher. “Exploration and Scarcity.” Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 90, No. 6 (December, 1982), pp. 1279-1290.
Despotakis, K.A., and Anthony C. Fisher. “Energy in a Regional Economy: A Computable General Equilibrium Model for California.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 15 (1988), pp. 313-330.
Fisher, Anthony C., and M.H. Rothkopf. “Market Failure and Energy Policy: A Rationale for Selective Conservation.” Energy Policy, Vol. 17 (August, 1989), pp. 397-406.
Fisher, Anthony C., and K.A. Despotakis. “Energy Taxes and Economic Performance: A Regional General Equilibrium Analysis.” Energy Economics, Vol. 11 (April, 1989), pp. 153-157.
Fisher, Anthony C., W.M. Hanemann, and A. Keeler. “Integrating Fishery and Water Resource Management: A Biological Model of a California Salmon Fishery.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 20 (1991), pp. 234-261.
Fisher, Anthony C., and L.S. Karp. “Nonconvexity, Efficiency and Equilibrium in Exhaustible Resource Depletion.” Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 3 (February, 1993), pp. 97-106.
Fisher, Anthony C., D. Fullerton, N. Hatch, and P. Reinelt. “Alternatives for Managing Drought: A Comparative Cost Analysis.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 29 (November, 1995), pp. 304-320.
Albers, H.J., Anthony C. Fisher, and W.M. Hanemann. “Valuation and Management of Tropical Forests: Implications of Uncertainty and Irreversibility.” Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 8 (1996), pp. 39-61.
Fisher, Anthony C., and S.J. Rubio. “Adjusting to Climate Change: Implications of Increased Variability and Asymmetric Adjustment Costs for Investment in Water Reserves.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 34 (1997), pp. 207-227.
Fisher, Anthony C., and U. Narain. “Global Warming, Endogenous Risk, and Irreversibility.” Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2003), pp. 395-416.
Schlenker, W., W.M. Hanemann, and Anthony C. Fisher. “Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit from Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach.” The American Economic Review, Vol. 95, No. 1 (2005), pp. 395-406.
Sethi, G., C. Costello, Anthony C. Fisher, W.M. Hanemann, and L. Karp. “Fishery Management Under Multiple Uncertainty.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 50, No. 2 (2005), pp. 300-318.
Schlenker, W., W.M. Hanemann, and Anthony C. Fisher. “The Impact of Global Warming on U.S. Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis.” Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 88, No. 1 (2006), pp. 113-125.
Narain, U., W.M. Hanemann, and Anthony C. Fisher. “The Irreversibility Effect in Environmental Decisionmaking.” Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 38, No. 3 (2007), pp. 391-405.
Schlenker, W., W.M. Hanemann, and Anthony C. Fisher. “Water Availability, Degree Days, and the Potential Impact of Climate Change on Irrigated Agriculture in California.” Climatic Change, Vol. 81, No. 1 (2007), pp.19-38.
Fisher, Anthony C., W.M. Hanemann, M.J. Roberts, and W. Schlenker. “The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather: Comment.” American Economic Review (2012), Vol. 102, No. 7, pp. 3749-3760.
Fisher, Anthony C., and P.V. Le. “Climate Policy: Science, Economics, and Extremes.” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2014), pp. 307-327.
Books
Fisher, Anthony C. Lecture Notes on Resource and Environmental Economics, Springer Nature, 2020, 148 pages, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48958-8
Fisher, Anthony C. Resource and Environmental Economics. Cambridge University Press, 1981, 284p.
Krutilla, J.V., and Anthony C. Fisher. The Economics of Natural Environments: Studies in the Valuation of Commodity and Amenity Resources. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Revised Edition, 1985, 300p.
Fisher, Anthony C. Environmental and Resource Economics: Selected Essays of Anthony C. Fisher. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 1995, 392p.
