Bruce A. McCarl
Emeritus Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics · Texas A&M University
University Distinguished Professor · Regents Professor · Presidential Impact Fellow
About
Bruce A. McCarl is a retired professor of Agricultural Economics who is also University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University, where he was on the faculty from 1985 to 2026 following earlier appointments at Purdue University and Oregon State University. His research addressed resource and agricultural policy questions in domestic and international settings, with a long-standing focus on the economics of climate change: the effects of a changing climate on agriculture and forestry, strategies for adapting agricultural systems to it, and the economics of greenhouse gas mitigation, including carbon sequestration, biofuels, and water and land management. A parallel line of his work develops the methodological tools — large-scale mathematical programming and sector models, and the treatment of risk and distributional effects in policy analysis — used across that research. He served as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose 2007 Nobel Peace Prize recognized the contributions of its participants, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, and the Western Agricultural Economics Association, as well as a Lifetime Achievement Award recipient from the Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
- Climate change economics
- Agricultural sector modeling
- Greenhouse gas mitigation
- Carbon sequestration
- Water resource economics
- Risk analysis
- Biofuels
- 333Refereed journal articles
- 48,000+Citations · h-index 93
- 100+PhD & postdoc students mentored
- 2007IPCC / Nobel Peace Prize participant
Book
Applied Mathematical Programming Using Algebraic Systems
A free, web-released textbook covering linear, integer, and nonlinear mathematical programming and their implementation in algebraic modeling systems such as GAMS, with applications in agricultural and resource economics.
Education
- Ph.D., Management Science, Pennsylvania State University, 1973
Minor: Industrial Engineering · Supporting field: Operations Management - B.S., Business Statistics, University of Colorado Boulder, 1970
Curriculum Vitae
View Dr. McCarl's full CV (PDF) — publications, honors, grants, teaching, and service.