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YORAM BAUMAN, a/k/a The Stand-Up Economist: is an environmental economist and a carbon tax Fellow at Sightline Institute, where he co-authored "Tax Shift" with Alan Durning. He has a PhD in economics from the University of Washington and works in Washington State and elsewhere on climate change economics and policy, especially carbon pricing. His most recent academic paper (“Climate sensitivity: should the climate tail wag the policy dog?”) was co- authored with UW climate scientist Gerard Roe and appeared in the April 2013 issue of Climatic Change.