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M. Scott Taylor

Canadian economist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6713149 ↗
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Michael Scott Taylor (born 30 July 1960) is a Canadian economist, who studies the interaction between international trade and environmental outcomes. He is currently the Canada Research Chair in International, Energy and Environmental Economics at the University of Calgary, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Fellow of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics. He is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the University of Basel (2010). In 2014, Scott Taylor was named fellow to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

Education

Taylor received his B.A. and M.A. in Economics from the University of Calgary and his Ph.D. from Queen's University in 1991 under the supervision of Richard G. Harris. Following his Ph.D., Taylor held a Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship and spent time at the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia. Taylor was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Basel, Switzerland for his pioneering work on trade, the environment and renewable resources. In 2014, Scott Taylor was named fellow to the Royal Society of Canada (RSC).

Career

After completing his postdoctoral fellowship, Taylor held academic positions at the University of British Columbia (1992–1998) and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998–2004), before returning to the University of Calgary. During his career, Taylor has also been a visiting scholar at Princeton University (1991, 2003) and a scholar of the Economic Growth Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1995–1998).

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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6713149. VIAF identifies the subject as 2711559. The Library of Congress control number is no92028583. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960, 2010, 2014 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “M. Scott Taylor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.