Professor Larcom is an interdisciplinary researcher with interests in law, economics and institutions.  He began his career as an Economist at the Australian Treasury.  He has a First Class Honours degree in Economics from the University of Melbourne, an MPhil in Environmental Policy from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in Law (Centre of Law and Economics) at University College London.  He has published in leading journals across disciplines, including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Law and Society Review, Nature Climate Change and Nature Sustainability.  He has a particular interest in legal pluralism, the internalisation of law, learning from shocks, environmental economics, and interactions between religion and the environment. 

Paper 5: Environmental Economics and Law

Paper 12: Law and Economics

EP02: Fundamentals of Environmental Economics

Food for the Soul and the Planet: Measuring the Impact of the Return of Meatless Fridays for (Some) UK Catholics (with L. Panzone and P-W She), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.  Accepted

Key publications: 

Working Papers 

Food for the Soul and the Planet: Measuring the Impact of the Return of Meatless Fridays for (Some) UK Catholics (with L. Panzone and P-W She)

Journal Articles

• Vaccinating the Nexus to advance integrated water, energy and food resource resilience (with P Kemp, M Acuto, D Lumbroso, M Owen), Current Research in Environmental Sustainability 4, 2022.
• The consequences of legal pluralism for an interdisciplinary researcher. The Journal of Legal Pluralism 53 (3) 410-413, 2021
• What We Learned From the Pandemic: Most of all, it taught us how to adapt under pressure (M. Acuto, F. Rauch, and T. Willems). IEEE Spectrum 58 (8), 22-27, 2021
• Estimating the impact of the first COVID-19 lockdown on UK food retailers and the restaurant sector (with L Panzone and P-W She). Global Food Security, 28, 2021.
• Seeing COVID-19 through an urban lens (Comment) (with Acuto et. al.). Nature Sustainability. 2020.
• Follow the Leader?  Testing for the internalization of law (with L. Panzone and T. Swanson).  The Journal of Legal Studies. 2019.
• The UK summer heatwave of 2018 and public concern over energy security (with P-W. She and T. van Gevelt), 9, 370–373, 2019.Nature Climate Change
• Linking precolonial institutions with ethnic fractionalisation: what are we measuring?  The Journal of Institutional Economics,  2019.    
• Do voluntary commons associations deliver sustainable grazing outcomes? An empirical study of England (with T. van Gevelt). Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019.
• On the perils of commitment to punishment when criminals are strategic (with M. Sarr). The Journal of Legal Studies, 47(2), 2018.
• Dictators Walking the Mogadishu Line: How Men Become Monsters and Monsters Become Men (with M. Sarr and T. Willems), The World Bank Economic Review, 32(3), 2018.
• The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network
  (with F. Rauch and T. Willems). The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 132(4), 2017.
  Reviewed in Science (Editors' Choice)
• Regulating the water-energy-food nexus: interdependencies, transaction costs and procedural justice." (with T. van Gevelt) Environmental Science and Policy 72: 55-64. 2017
• Natural Resource Contests and Precolonial Institutions in Papua New Guinea, Journal of Agrarian Change, 17(3), 2017
• Precolonial Institutions and Deforestation in Africa (with T. van Gevelt and A. Zabala), Land Use Policy 51(1). 2016
• Documenting legal dissonance: Legal Pluralism in Papua New Guinea (with T. Swanson), Review of Law and Economics, 11(1). 2015.
• Internalising Legal Norms: An Investigation into the Legitimacy of Payback Killings in the New Guinea Islands , Law and Society Review, 49 (1).  2015.
• Problematic Legal Pluralism: Causes, Consequences and some Potential 'Cures', Journal of Legal Pluralism, 46(2). 2014
• Accounting for Legal Pluralism: the Impact of Pre-Colonial Institutions on Crime, Law and Development Review, 6(1). 2013
• Taking Customary Law Seriously: A Case of Legal Re-Ordering in Kieta, Journal of Legal Pluralism, 45(2). 2013.

Book

• Legal Dissonance: The Interaction of Criminal Law and Customary Law in Papua New Guinea (2015 Berghahn Books: Oxford). 

  

Review by Bruce Ottley in Asia Pacific Law Review

Water-Energy-Food Nexus Journal Articles

• Scaling the nexus : Towards integrated frameworks for analysing water, energy and food (with S. McGrane et al.). Geographical Journal. Forthcoming.
• The potential impact of Brexit on the energy, water and food nexus in the UK: A fuzzy cognitive mapping approach (with Ziv, G. et al.). Applied Energy, 210, Jan 2018.

Book Chapters

• Time-Consistency and Dictator Punishment: Discretion Rather Than Rules?” (with M.Sarr and T. Willems), 2016, in T. Besley (ed) Contemporary Issues in Development Economics, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Economics of Green Economies: Investment in Green Growth and How it Works  (with T. Swanson), in P.-M. Dupuy, J. E. Viñuales (eds.), Harnessing Foreign Investment to Promote Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• International experiences in air pollution management (with H. Vennemo) in T Lin and T. Swanson (eds.), Economic Growth and Environmental  Regulation: The People's Republic of China's Path to a Brighter Future (ADB and Routledge, 2009) 

Selected Media Coverage

London Underground Paper

• The Economist (article, blog), Financial Times (article, column), The Times, The Stack, The Spectator, The Week, Marginal Revolution, Evening Standard (article, column), Independent (article, column), BBC 4, New York Times

Dictators walking the Mogadishu Line

• Wall Street Journal

Maka Tounkara

Siyue Ouyang