How to steer clear of the looming climate shock
Stick it to carbon, not the man.
Essays
Essays, op-eds, opinion essays, and other writings in publications like the FT, NYT, WaPo, New York Magazine, Salon, OPEC Fund Magazine(!), and many others.
Pay Now or Pay More Later
Economics is largely just organized common sense, and it doesn’t get much more common sense than benefit-cost analysis.
Inconvenient Uncertainties
by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
Air conditioning is not the enemy
Carbon pollution is.
Judge a carbon market by its cap, not its prices
The goal of emissions trading systems is to make them scarce, not to make them costly.
Gross Domestic Product: Grossly incomplete, but we can fix it
Green accounting is honest accounting
Was Hurricane Sandy the ‘Fat Tail’ of Climate Change?
by Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman
Playing God
The climate problem, twice over: Seven billion "free riders," meet the "free drivers" of geoengineering.
It’s not over ‘til the fat tail zings
You can bail out AIG, Greece, or even the United States. You can’t bail out the planet.
Naomi Klein is half right
Distorted markets are the real problem