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Matt Burgess

Assistant Professor

  • How to depolarize environmental issues in the United Statess
  • How to reduce political polarization and increase idealogical diversity on college campuses
  • Why economic growth is slowing and what problems this is causing to democracy and society

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Matt Burgess

Biography

Matt Burgess is an environmental economist who studies the macroeconomics and political polarization of climate change, and does outreach promoting open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement on college campuses. He is assistant professor of environmental
studies at the University of Colorado Boulder and will be assistant professor of economics at the University of Wyoming, starting in fall 2024.