Yoram Bauman is a Lecturer in the Quantitative Analysis of Markets and Organizations Division of the David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah. He has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington, with a focus on environmental economics and public finance, and an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Reed College. Yoram’s main area of academic and policy interest is environmental tax reform, e.g., policies that combine higher taxes on “bads” that we want less of with lower taxes on “goods” that we want more of (for example, using revenue from carbon taxes to reduce existing state sales taxes). His work experience includes teaching (at the university level, at the high school level, and at his kids’ elementary school as Mr Tall the Garden Teacher), various consulting projects, and two decades performing at colleges and corporate events as “the world’s first and only stand-up economist” (see www.standupeconomist.com).

He is the co-author (with Grady Klein) of four cartoon books—the Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change, the Cartoon Introduction to Calculus, and the two-volume Cartoon Introduction to Economics—and is currently working to improve a play/movie script for a romantic comedy about carbon tax ballot measures called Seize The Initiative! (The play premiered with 6 sold-out shows at the 2024 Great Salt Lake Fringe Festival; videos, play and movie scripts, and more can be found at www.Yoram-Com.com.)