Worthy of your time: A nuanced discussion on Twitter about winners William Nordhaus and Paul Romer.
Plenty of conversations erupted on Twitter after the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in economics to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer, who pioneered environmental economics and efforts to create long-term sustainable economic growth.
One discussion, triggered by veteran Vox reporter David Roberts, is worthy of your attention for its nuance and its reference to Harvard University's Martin Weitzman, another titan in the field of environmental economics.
Don't know if I'd go this far, but I admit to a little ambivalence about it.
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Yale economist William Nordhaus has devoted his life's work to understanding the costs of climate change and advocating the use of a carbon tax to curb global warming.
The Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences was shared by Americans William D. Nordhaus and Paul M. Romer, for research on innovation, climate change and the economy that has had huge implications for global policy making.
