A Review of The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty and Economics for a Warming World by William Nordhaus
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For more than three decades William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, has contributed to a better understanding of climate change issues with three books and dozens of articles. He has consistently taken a judicious, balanced stance, acknowledging the many uncertainties while using the best available research findings, updating his analysis regularly and adopting mid-range estimates for key relationships. This approach has made him influential with policy-makers and an entire generation of climate economists.
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