Gary Lucas, Jr.

Texas A&M University School of Law

Professor of Law

1515 Commerce St.

Fort Worth, TX Tarrant County 76102

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

11

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Scholarly Papers (11)

1.

Measuring Scholarly Impact: A Guide for Law School Administrators and Legal Scholars

165 U. Pa. L. Rev. Online 165 (2017), Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-23
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2017
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
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citations, scholarly impact, Leiter score, h-index, Google Scholar, peer reputation

2.

Saving Smokers from Themselves: The Paternalistic Use of Cigarette Taxes

University of Cincinnati Law Review, Vol. 80, 2012
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2012
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 474 (121,324)

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cigarette tax, sin tax, smoking, internalities, hyperbolic, time-inconsistent, optimism bias, paternalism

3.

Shaping Preferences with Pigouvian Taxes

New York University Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, Forthcoming, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 24-36
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 26 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2024
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 280 (217,503)
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Pigouvian, corrective tax, endogenous preferences, malleable preferences, behavioral contagion, social multiplier effect, carbon tax

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Behavioral Public Choice and the Law

118 W.Va. L. Rev. 199 (2015), Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-32
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 21 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2016
Gary Lucas Jr. and Slavisa Tasic
Texas A&M University School of Law and University of Mary
Downloads 272 (223,901)
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behavioral public choice, behavioral law and economics, behavioral political economy, rational ignorance, biases and heuristics, irrationality, deliberative democracy, administrative law, tax salience

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Behavioral Public Choice and the Carbon Tax

2017 Utah Law Rev. 115 (2017), Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-02
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2017
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
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carbon tax, global warming, climate change, behavioral public choice, behavioral political economy, behavioral law and economics, opportunity cost neglect, Clean Power Plan, Paris Agreement

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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: How Opportunity Cost Neglect Undermines Democracy

9 N.Y.U. J.L. & Liberty 249 (2015), Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-54
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 20 May 2014 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2016
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
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opportunity cost, irrationality, public choice, behavioral public choice, behavioral law and economics, law and psychology, government failure, tax expenditures, regulation, budget deficit, opinion research, carbon tax

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Paternalism and Psychic Taxes: The Government's Use of Negative Emotions to Save Us from Ourselves

22 Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal 227 (2013)
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 22 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2013
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 165 (357,617)

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psychic tax, negative emotions, warning labels, graphic warnings, paternalism, smoking, cigarettes, obesity, regulation, imperfect rationality, hyperbolic discounting, optimism bias, empathy gap, addiction, cues

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Voter Psychology and the Carbon Tax

90 Temple Law Review 1 (2017), Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-18
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2018
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
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carbon tax, climate change, global warming, voter psychology, behavioral public choice, debiasing

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Betting on Climate Policy: Using Prediction Markets to Address Global Warming

U.C. Davis Law Review, Vol. 52, 2019, pp. 1429-1486, Texas A&M University School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-26
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 25 May 2018 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2019
Gary Lucas Jr. and Felix Mormann
Texas A&M University School of Law and Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 162 (363,302)

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climate change, decision making, cost-benefit analysis, prediction markets, heuristics, bias, green subsidies, ARPA-E, feed-in tariffs, renewable portfolio standards, net metering, carbon tax, cap-and-trade

10.

The Pain of Paying Taxes

University of Richmond Law Review, Vol. 56, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2021
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 129 (436,302)

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tax, pain of paying, law and psychology, behavioral economics

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The Taxation of Emissions Permits Distributed for Free as Part of a Carbon Cap-and-Trade Program

George Washington Journal of Energy and Environmental Law, Vol. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 27 May 2010 Last Revised: 26 May 2014
Gary Lucas Jr.
Texas A&M University School of Law
Downloads 115 (476,246)

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cap-and-trade, emissions permits, climate change, tax, global warming, transition policy

Other Papers (1)

Total Downloads: 171
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A Carbon Tax Is Not a Terrible Idea: A Reply to Diana Furchtgott-Roth

2017 Tax Notes 151 (2017)
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 13 Apr 2017
Gary Lucas Jr., Shi-Ling Hsu and Jerry Taylor
Texas A&M University School of Law, Florida State University - College of Law and Niskanen Center
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carbon tax, global warming, climate change