Ragtag Cinema Columbia, MO
Dr. J. Isaac "Zack" Miller
Professor of Economics and Associate Chair of the Department of Economics, University of Missouri
Snowpiercer— Weird weather
Program Description
Dr. Miller explores the concept of balance from an ecological and economic perspective through discussions of real-life and fictional examples of climate change.
Presented At
Ragtag Cinema Columbia, MO
Film Synopsis
In a future where a failed climate change experiment has killed all life except for the survivors who boarded the Snowpiercer (a train that travels around the globe), a new class system emerges.
Survivors of Earth's second ice age live out their days on a luxury train that ploughs through snow and ice. The train's poorest residents, who live in the squalid caboose, plan to improve their lot by taking over the engine room.
Photo credit: The Weinstein Company
About the Speaker
Dr. J. Isaac “Zack” Miller is Professor of Economics and Associate Chair of the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri, where he has taught econometrics to undergraduate, master’s, and PhD students for nearly two decades. He specializes in the statistical analysis of time series with recent research grounded in applications to modeling the causes and consequences of climate change and changing macroeconomic energy consumption. He has published extensively in internationally ranked journals, including Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, Energy Economics, Journal of Time Series Analysis. He has held visiting positions at Texas A&M University and the University of Oxford. He currently serves as an associate editor of Studies in Nonlinear Econometrics and Dynamics and has edited special issues of Journal of Econometrics, Energy Economics, Advances in Econometrics, and Environmetrics relating to econometric analysis of energy and climate.