Economics Topics
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The Stern Report
The Stern Report uses some interesting present value accounting to fan the flames of the global warming debate.
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First there was the Stern Review. Then came a slew of critiques, which were promptly followed by a defense by Simon Dietz and Stern himself in the same volume of the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP).
Now on to round four: All four original ...
I’ve put up quite a few posts supporting the conclusion of the Stern review that large cuts in C02 emissions could be achieved at very modest economic cost. Mostly, the analysis has focused on policies aimed at reducing developed country emissions by 30 per cent by 2020 and 60 per ...
Mark Thoma points us to an excellent review by Angus Deaton of the controversy surrounding the Stern climate report. Much of the discussion on the report has revolved around Stern's use of a very small discount rate, on the ethical assumption that we have no reason to value ...
The annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Association came and went this weekend in New Orleans, the usual intellectual carnival of 60-odd economists’ organizations, large and small, contending under a single broad canopy, and, on the side, a job market for this year’s class of newly-minted PhDs. Thanks to ...
When was the last time someone mentions environmental economics is the "centerpiece" of the ASSA meetings (Down in New Orleans)?
The annual meetings of the Allied Social Science Association came and went this weekend in New Orleans, ...
But the centerpiece of the convention was a lecture by Nicholas Stern. It is the ...