Summer School 2012

If you are looking for some excitement in your life, I will be teaching Environmental Economics at UCLA this summer starting in early August.  Look up my teaching ratings.

Took his Econ M134 
All I can say about this professor is that obviously he devotes his life to the research of environment economics. He's not only a genius but also a crazy, enthusiastic environmentalist. I am not a fan of protecting environment or doing research, but I found his class very interesting even from the first meeting, not only because of his great sense of humor(includes the way he talks) but also because he uses his real world experience to help you realize the concepts. The tests are not hard. Lots of past exams will be provided. Even if the test is difficult, there will be a reasonable curve. Definitely recommend to take this class.

While I'm not loved at UCLA, when I step into the classroom students learn and think and I try my best.  Why teach summer school?  It ain't for the salary. I take a deep pay cut to help my unit.  I won't be teaching this fall and this course will allow me to not get rusty.  I like to teach this class and the revenue generated by the course mainly goes to my Institute of the Environment rather than vanishing into the ether of the University of California.    While I can't talk about my master plan for bringing about solvency for the University of California, the plan revolves around decentralizing responsibility and opportunities back to the individual campuses.  Everyone on each campus should face the right incentives to raise revenue (both from grants, teaching and private fund raising) and to reduce costs.  I am a fan of having everyone at UCLA pay for toliet paper per sheet.  Marginal prices = 0 leads to waste and the days of waste of $ have ended.