Marlon G. Boarnet
Marlon Boarnet, currently a Professor in UC Irvine's Dept. of Planning, Policy and Design, will join the faculty of the University of Southern California effective January 1, 2012.
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Marlon Boarnet is a nationally recognized authority on issues at the intersection of economics, land use, and urban planning. His data-driven studies of land use – travel behavior interactions, urban growth patterns, infrastructure investment, and economic development have helped shape research and policy on those topics. Boarnet co-edits the Journal of Regional Science, a leading journal in the fields of urban economics and quantitative geography. He is an associate editor of the Journal of the American Planning Association and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Planning Literature, Journal of Transport and Land Use, and, from 1999 through 2010, Papers in Regional Science.
Solyndra, Moneyball, and Lessons for Planning
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small"> </span> <p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNoSpacing"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt">The Los Angeles Times recently had a <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-solyndra-20110925,0,1536191.story" target="_blank" title="Solyndra's collapse is a tale of too much dazzle">story</a> about the collapse of Solyndra – the once heralded poster-child of the Obama administration’s green jobs plan. A big part of Solyndra’s demise was due to the rapidly falling price of their competitors’ solar panels. In 2008, the cost of solar panels was a bit over $4 for each watt generated. Solyndr