Dale W. Jorgenson is currently the Samuel W. Morris University Professor at Harvard University. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1982), the American Statistical Association (1965) and the Econometric Society (1964). He has served as President of the American Economic Association, and he was named Distinguished Fellow of the Association (2001). He was also one founding member of the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Research Council and served as Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2006. In 1971, he received the prestigious John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economic Association. In addition, he has received several honorary doctorate degrees. His many contributions to economics include influential works in information technology and economic growth, energy and the environment, tax policy and investment behavior, and applied econometrics. He has long been an advocate of establishing a general equilibrium model to study China’s economic growth and energy utilization as well as their effects on the environment.
