Peter Dorman

Peter Dorman is professor emeritus of political economy at Evergreen State College. His broad research interests have included occupational safety and health, child labor, international trade, environmental economics and the theory of the firm. He is currently researching and writing projects that address carbon policy, the economics of HIV/AIDS in developing countries, non-welfarist approaches to cost-benefit analysis, and the relationship between worker autonomy, innovation and corporate governance in the US and Germany.

For two decades he served as a consultant to the International Labor Organization, authoring several high profile reports. His books include Markets and Mortality: Economics, Dangerous Work and the Value of Human Life and the forthcoming Alligators in the Arctic and How to Avoid Them: Science, Economics and the Challenge of Catastrophic Climate Change.