NBER Summer Institute
Environmental & Energy Economics
Environmental & Energy Economics
The economist Martin Weitzman got scientists and politicians to think about the worst-case outcomes of global warming. We’re seeing them happen right now.
With its fixation on equilibrium thinking and an exclusive focus on market factors that can be precisely measured, the neoclassical orthodoxy in economics is fundamentally unequipped to deal with today's biggest problems. Change within the discipline is underway, but it cannot come fast enough.
French Economic Association Annual Meeting
Conversation with Rob Stavins
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
NYU Stern
Göteborg, Sweden
Montclair, NJ
Trento, Italy
New information about the link between atmospheric CO₂ and eventual global average warming bolsters the case for climate policy now
By Marlowe Hood/Agence France-Presse
Uncertainty is not our friend
The economics of climate attribution are lagging behind the impacts of dangerous weather.
If COVID-19 has taught us anything, it is that delaying prudent policymaking does not merely result in higher marginal costs down the road. Rather, it puts us on an entirely different trajectory – one that all too easily can end in catastrophe.
Webinar
College Park, MD
Spring 2020
Washington, DC
College Park, PA