Curriculum
Vitae
William
D. Nordhaus
December 2007
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
Date of Birth: May 31, 1941
Place of Birth: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Business Address and information:
Department
of Economics, Yale University
28 Hillhouse
Avenue, New Haven, Connecticut 06511
Telephone: office: (203) 432-3598
Fax: office: (203) 436-2626
E-Mail: william.nordhaus@yale.edu
Homepage:
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nordhaus/homepage/homepage.htm
Home Address and information:
445 Humphrey
Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511
Telephone:
(203) 562-6804
Fax: (203)
865-4819
Education:
Yale University, B.A., 1963; M.A. (Priv.), 1973
Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Paris), Certificat, 1962
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. (Economics),
1967
Academic and Professional Positions:
Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale
University, 2001 to present.
A. Whitney Griswold Professor of
Economics, Yale University, 1991-2001.
Vice President for Finance and
Administration, Yale University, 1992-93.
Provost, Yale University, 1986-88.
John Musser Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1979 to
1991.
Member of staff, Cowles Foundation for
Research in Economics, 1967 to present.
Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers, United
States Government, January 1977 to February 1979.
Visiting Professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India,
January-February 1986.
Research Scholar, International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria, 1974-75.
Professor of Economics, Yale
University, 1973 to present.
Associate Professor of Economics, Yale
University, 1970-73.
Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale
University, 1967-70.
Senior Visitor, University of Cambridge (England), 1970-71.
Professional Honors and Affiliations:
Elected to U. S. National Academy of Sciences
Elected to Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Awarded the Distinguished Fellow Award
by the American Economic Association, 2005.
1999 United States Association of Energy Economics Adelman-Frankel
Award
2006 Award for “Publication of Enduring Quality,” Association
of Environmental and Resource Economics for Managing
the Global Commons (MIT Press, 1994).
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Elected Fellow, Econometric Society
Research Associate, National Bureau of
Economic Research, 1967-68; 1980 to present. Research
Associate in Economic Fluctuations, Public Economics, Productivity, Energy and
Environmental Economics.
Member or Senior Adviser, Brookings
Panel on Economic Activity, 1972 to present.
Representative of American Economic Association to American
Academy for the Advancement of Science, 1976-79.
Member, National Academy of Science, Carbon Dioxide
Assessment Committee, 1980-1984.
Member, Advisory Committee, NASA, 1982-1983.
Member, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Panel on
Arms Control, 1979-80.
Executive Committee: American Economic Association,
1983-1986; Eastern Economic Association, 1983-1987. Visiting
Committee, MIT, 1993-1998.
Editorial Board for different periods: American Economic
Review; The Energy Journal; Journal of Policy Modeling; Journal of Conflict
Resolution; Eastern Economic Review; Resources and Energy; Environmental
Modeling and Assessment
Co-Chairman, Economic Policy Study Group, Center for National
Policy, 1982 - 1986
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on the Policy
Implications of Greenhouse Warming, Synthesis Committee and Panel on Adaptation
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Panel on R&D on Energy,
Member of Synthesis Panel and Vice-Chairman of Panel on Strategies
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Human
Dimensions of Global Change
Member, Social Science Research Council, Committee on Growth
and Stability
Member, Social Science Research Council, Committee on Human
Dimensions of Global Change
Member, U. S. Committee on IIASA
(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis), various years.
Member, National Science Foundation
Review Committee, Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change.
Member, National Science Foundation, Review Committee on
IIASA (International Institute on Applied Systems Analysis)
Member of Group on Economies in
Transition, sponsored by IIASA; chairman of Working Group on Stabilization;
member of Steering Committee.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on National
Statistics, 1992 – 2000.
Chairman, National Academy of
Sciences, Panel on Integrated Environmental Accounting, 1996 -1999.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Data and
Research on Illegal Drugs, 1998 – 2001 . Chair, Subcommittee on the Organization of Data Collection.
Member, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on the the Societal Impacts of Abrupt Climate Change, 2000 – 2002.
Member, Social Science Research Council, Panel on Graduate
Education, 1997 - 1999.
Member, Expert Panel, Congressional Budget Office, 1998 – .
Chair, Advisory Panel, Bureau of Economic Analysis,
2000-2004; Member , Advisory Panel, Bureau of Economic
Analysis, 2000– .
Member, National Academies, Division of Behavioral and Social
Sciences and Education, 2005 – .
Program Director, Yale/NBER/IIASA Program on International
Environmental Economics, funded as a Consortium Grant from the National Science
Foundation, 1996 – 2006 .
Chair, American Economic Association, Exploratory Committee
on Economic Statistics, 2001 - 2002.
Chair, American Economic Association, Committee on Economic
Statistics, 2002 – 2006.
Program Director, Yale Program on Non-market Accounting,
Sponsored by the Glaser Foundation, 2001 - .
Research grants for different periods from the U.S. National
Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Sloan Foundation, and Ford Foundation,
Electric Power Research Institute, Glaser Progress Foundation.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
1. Invention,
Growth and Welfare: A Theoretical Treatment of Technological Change. M.I.T.
Press, 1969.
2. Is
Growth Obsolete? with James Tobin in Economic Growth,
N.B.E.R. 1972; also published in Income and Wealth, Volume 38, Publisher
N.B.E.R., New York, 1973.
3. International
Studies in the Demand for Energy, editor, with contributions, North-Holland
Publishing Company, 1977. Also published as William D. Nordhaus, ed.,
Proceedings of the Workshop on Energy Demand, IIASA Collaborative Paper
CP-76-001, January 1976.
4. Industrial
Pricing in the United Kingdom , with Wynne Godley and Kenneth Coutts,
Cambridge University Press,1978.
5. The
Efficient Use of Energy Resources , Yale University Press, 1979.
6. Reforming
Federal Regulation, with Robert E. Litan, Yale
University Press, 1983.
7. ECONOMICS,
with Paul A. Samuelson, Twelfth Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1985; Thirteenth Edition,
1989; Fourteenth Edition, 1992; Fifteenth Edition, 1995; Sixteenth Edition,
1998; Seventeenth Edition, 2001; Eighteenth Edition, 2005. Foreign
English-language editions in Canada, Australian, and Britain. Foreign translations in Armenian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, German,
Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazak, Portuguese, Russian,
Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
8. The
Share Economy: A Symposium ,
editor, with Andrew John, published by The Journal of Comparative Economics
, vol. 10, 1986.
9. Toward a New Iron Age? A Study of Patterns of
Resource Exhaustion, with Robert B. Gordon, Tjalling C. Koopmans, and Brian
J. Skinner, Harvard University Press, 1988.
10. Money,
Macroeconomics, and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of James Tobin, editor
with William C. Brainard and Harold W. Watts, MIT Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1991.
11. Costs,
Impacts, and Benefits of CO2 Mitigation , Y. Kaya,
N. Nakicenovic, W. Nordhaus, and F. Toth, eds.,
IIASA, CP-93-002, 1993.
12. Managing
the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate Change, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., 1994.
13. Integrative
Assessment of Mitigation, Impacts, and Adaptation to Climate Change, N.
Nakicenovic, W. Nordhaus, R. Richels, and F. Toth, eds., IIASA, CP-94-009, 1994 also published as a
special issue of Energy Policy, vol.
23, No. 4/5, April 1995.
14. Climate
Change: Integrating Science, Economics, and Policy, N. Nakicenovic, W.
Nordhaus, R. Richels, and F. Toth,
eds., IIASA, CP-96-1, 1996.
15. The
Swedish Nuclear Dilemma: Energy and the Environment, Resources for the
Future, Washington, D.C., 1997. (Also published in Swedish as Körnkraft
och Miljö - ett Svenskt Dilemma, SNS Förlag, Stockholm, 1996.)
16. Economic
and Policy Issues in Climate Change, editor, with contribution, Resources
for the Future Press, Washington, 1998.
17. Nature's
Numbers: Expanding the National Economic Accounts to Include the Environment,
Report of the Panel on Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting,
edited, with Edward Kokkelenberg, National Academy
Press, 1999.
18. Warming
the World: Economic Modeling of Global Warming, with Joseph Boyer,
forthcoming, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., Summer 2000.
19. Economics:
An Introduction (with Paul Samuelson), 17th edition, McGraw Hill, January
2001.
20. Induced
Innovation and Climate Change: Collected Essays, ed. with Nebojsa
Nakicenovic and Arnulf Gruebler, Resources for the
Future Press, 2002.
21. Architecture for the National Accounts,
eds., Dale Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld, and William Nordhaus, Chicago
University Press, 2006.
Journal Publications:
1. “The
Optimal Rate and Direction of Technological Change”, Karl Shell, ed., Essays on
the Theory of Optimal Economic Growth, M.I.T. Press, 1967.
2.
“Balanced Growth –A Razor's Edge?,” International
Economic Review, Volume 8, No. 3, October 1967, (with George Akerlof).
3. “Tax
Incentives for Low Income Housing,” Proceedings of the 61st Annual Conference
on Taxation, National Tax Association, September 1968.
4. “An
Economic Theory of Technological Change,” American Economic Review, Papers and
Proceedings, Volume 59, May 1969, click
here.
5. “Recent
Developments in Price Dynamics,” O. Eckstein, ed., The Econometrics of Price Determination, Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.
6. “The
Optimal Life of a Patent: Reply, “American
Economic Review, Volume 62, June 1972, click
here.
7.
“Pricing in the Trade Cycle,” The
Economic Journal, Volume 82, 1972, (with Wynne Godley).
8. “The
Worldwide Wage Explosion,” Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, 2:1972.
9. “The
Recent Productivity Slowdown,” Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, 3:1972.
10. “A
Skeptical Note on the Theory of Induced Innovation,” The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February 1973, click here.
11. “World
Dynamics: Measurement Without Data,” The Economic Journal, Volume 83, No.
332, December 1973, click here.
12. “The
Allocation of Energy Resources,” Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, 3:1973.
13. “The Effects of Inflation on the Distribution of Economic
Welfare,” Journal of Money, Credit and
Banking, Volume 5, No. 1, Part II, 1973.
14.
“Alternatives for Debt Management,” Issues
in Federal Debt Management, Proceedings of a conference held in New
Hampshire, June 1973. Sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank in
Boston, Series No. 10 (with Henry C. Wallich).
15.
“Resources as a Constraint on Growth,” American
Economic Review, Volume 64, No. 2, 1974.
16. “The
Falling Share of Profits,” Brookings
Papers on Economic Activity, 1:1974.
17. “A
Technique for Decomposing Inflation,” Volume on Income and Wealth, 1974, (with
John Shoven).
18.
“Energy in the Economic Report,” The
American Economic Review, Volume 64, No. 4, September 1974.
19.
“Markets and Appropriable Resources,” Energy,
Demand, Conservation, and Institutional Problems, edited by Michael S. Macrakis, M.I.T. Press, Spring
1974.
20. “The
Political Business Cycle,” Review of
Economic Studies, April 1975.
21. “Decisionmaking and Decisionmakers,”
in The Robert H. Roy Symposium on Decisionmaking on
the Occasion of the Johns Hopkins University Centennial, Johns Hopkins
University, Homewood, processed, February 1976.
22.
“Inflation Theory and Policy,” American
Economic Review, May 1976.
23.
“Energy and Economic Growth,” in J.C. Hurewitz, ed., Oil, the Arab-Israeli Dispute, and the
Industrial World, Westview Press, Boulder,
Colorado, 1976.
24.
“Economic Growth and Climate: The Case of Carbon Dioxide,” The American Economic Review, May 1977, click here.
25. “The
Role of Research in Economic Growth,” in American Association for the
Advancement of Science, D. I. Phillips, C. C. Cleare,
and M. Patterson, Eds., Research and
Development in the Federal Budget, American Association for the Advancement
of Science, November 1977, pp. 19-32.
26.
“Welfare Measures for Regional Policies,”
Explorations in Economic Research, Volume 4, Number 3, Summer 1977.
27. “The
Demand for Energy: An International Perspective,” in William Nordhaus, ed.,
Chapter 13, International Studies of the
Demand for Energy, North-Holland Publishing Company, 1977.
28. “Will
Bottlenecks Slow the Expansion?,” Productive
Potential, St. Louis Federal Reserve Board, 1977.
29.
“Metering Economic Growth,” in Kenneth Wilson, ed., Prospects for Growth: Changing Expectations for the Future, Praeger Publishers, New York, 1978.
30.Energy Modeling for an Uncertain Future: Report of the
Modeling Resource Group of the Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy
Systems, National Academy of Sciences Press, 1978, contribution to Chapter IV
and Appendix F, with co-authors.
31.
“Energy Policy: Alternative Strategies for Consumer Countries,” in Ragaei El Mallakh and Dorothea H.
El Mallakh, New
Policy Imperatives for Energy Producers, Proceedings of the Sixth
International Conference, Boulder, Colorado, 1980.
32.
“Policy Responses to the Productivity Slowdown,” in Federal Reserve Bank of
Boston, Conference on Productivity,
June 1980.
33. “The
Energy Crisis and Macroeconomic Policy,”
The Energy Journal, vol. I, No. 1, 1980.
34. “The
Interaction Between Oil and the Economy in Industrial
Countries,” Brookings Papers on Economic
Activity, 2:1980.
35.Tax-Based Incomes Policies: A Better Mousetrap?” in M.P. Clandon and R.R. Cornwall, An Incomes Policy for the United States: New Approaches, Martinus Mijhoff, Boston, 1981.
36.
“Economic Policy in the Face of Declining Productivity Growth,” European Economic Review, 1982.
37. “Macroconfusion: The Dilemmas of Economic Policy,” in J.
Tobin, ed., Essays in Honor of Arthur Okun, Brookings, 1983.
38. “How
Fast Should We Graze the Global Commons?,” American Economic Review, Volume 72, 2,
May 1982, click here.
39. “A
Review of Estimates of Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions,” with Jesse Ausubel, in
National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences, Changing Climate, National Academy Press, 1983.
40.
“Future Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Fossil Fuels,” with Gary Yohe, in
National Research Council-National Academy of Sciences, Changing Climate, National Academy Press, 1983.
41.
“Reflections on Monetarism, Stagnation and Other North American Exports”, International Social Science Journal,
Vol. XXXV, No. 3, The World Economy: Theory and
Reality, 1983.
42.
“Induced Technical Change: A Programming Approach”, with Ludo
Van der Heyden, in Sam H. Schurr, Sidney Sonenblum and
David O. Wood, eds., Energy, Productivity
and Economic Growth, Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain, 1983.
43.
“Reaganomics and Economic Growth: A Summing Up,” in Charles R. Hulten and Isabel V. Sawhill, The Legacy of Reaganomics: Prospects for
Long-Term Growth, Urban Institute Press, Washington, 1984.
44.
“Identifying Winners and Losers,” in National Research Council, The Race for
the New Frontier: International Competition in Advanced Technology– Decisions
for America, National Academy Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984.
45.
“Comments on `The Causes of Inflation,'“ in Price
Stability and Public Policy, A Symposium Sponsored by the Federal Reserve
Bank of Kansas City, August 1984.
46.
“Discussion of the Current State of Macroeconomic Theory,” American Economic Review, May 1984.
47. “The
Value of Information,” in Richard Krasnow, ed., Policy Aspects of Climate Forecasting,
Resources for the Future, Washington, 1986, pp. 129-133.
48. “CO2
Forecasting and Control: A Mathematical Programming Approach,” with T. A. Daly,
N. Goto, and R. F. Kosobud,
in John Weyant, ed., The Energy
Industries in Transition, Part I, International Association of Energy
Economists, Washington, D.C., 1984, pp. 547-561.
49.
“Resources, Technology, and Development: Will the Table Be Bare When Poor
Countries Get There?” The Indian Economic
Review, July-December 1986, pp. 81-94.
50.
“Comment: `A Geometrical Analysis of the Incentives for Growth and Credit
Rationing,'“ European Economic Review, vol. 30, 1986.
51.
“Introduction,” in William D. Nordhaus and Andrew John, eds., The Share
Economy: A Symposium, editor, with Andrew John, published by The Journal of Comparative Economics,
vol. 10, 1986.
52. “Can
the Share Economy Cure Our Macroeconomic Woes? Probably Not,”
in William D. Nordhaus and Andrew John, eds., The Share Economy: A Symposium,
editor, with Andrew John, published by The
Journal of Comparative Economics, vol. 10, 1986.
53. “The
Council of Economic Advisers: Conscience or Advocate?” Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, vol. 25,
North Holland, 1986, pp. 265-277.
54.
“Forecasting Efficiency: Concepts and Applications,” Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 69, No. 4, 1987, pp.
667-674.
55.
“Comment on `Regulatory Reform and OSHA Policy,'“ with
Robert Litan, Journal
of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1986.
56. “Can
the Share Economy Conquer Stagflation?” Quarterly
Journal of Economics, February 1988, pp. 201-217, click here.
57.
“Alternative Approaches to Political Business Cycle,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1989:2.
58.
“Patents: Recent Trends and Puzzles: Comment,” in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics, 1989.
59. “Ten
Years of Mrs. T.: Comment,” NBER
Macroeconomics Annual 1989, MIT Press.
60.
“Soviet Economic Reform: The Longest Road,”
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1990:1.
61.
“Economic Growth, Investment, and Technological Change,” in Peter Diamond, Essays in Honor of Robert Solow, MIT
Press, 1990.
62. “Risk
Analysis: Applications to University Finances,” in Richard Anderson, ed, The Financing of Higher Education, Joffrey,
1990.
63.
“Slowing the Greenhouse Express: The Economics of Greenhouse Warming,” in Henry
Aaron, ed, Setting National Priorities, Brookings,
Washington, D. C., 1990.
64.
“Comments on the Coming Surplus in the Social Security Trust Fund,” in Carolyn
Weaver, ed., Social Security, American
Enterprise Institute, 1990.
65. “Count
Before You Leap: Economics of Climate Change,” The Economist, July 1990.
66. “A
General Equilibrium Model of Policies to Slow Global Warming,” in David Wood,
ed., Economic Models of Energy and
Environment, Proceedings of a Workshop, Washington, D. C., October 1990.
67. “A
Sketch of the Economics of the Greenhouse Effect,” American Economic Review, May 1991.
68. “To
Slow or Not to Slow: The Economics of the Greenhouse Effect,” The Economic Journal, July 1991, vol.
101, pp. 920-937.
69. “The
Cost of Slowing Climate Change: A Survey,” The
Energy Journal, vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 1991 pp.
37-65.
70.
“Economic Approaches to Greenhouse Warming,” in Rudiger
Dornbusch and James M. Poterba, Global Warming: Economic Policy Response,
MIT Press, 1991, pp. 33-66.
71.
“Economic Policy in the Face of Global Warming,” in J. W. Tester, D. O. Wood,
and N. A. Ferrari, Energy and the
Environment in the 21st Century, MIT Press, 1991.
72. “The
Soviet Economic Crisis: Steps to Avert Collapse,” (joint with the Chairmen of
the Study Groups), IIASA, Executive Report number 19, February, 1991 and in
Merton J. Peck and Thomas J. Richardson, What
Is To Be Done? Proposals for the Soviet Transition to the
Market, Yale University Press, 1991.
73.
“Stabilizing the Soviet Economy,” in Merton J. Peck and Thomas J. Richardson, What Is To Be Done? Proposals
for the Soviet Transition to the Market, Yale
University Press, 1991.
74. “Do
Borders Matter? Soviet Economic Reform After the Coup”
joint with Merton J. Peck and Thomas J. Richardson, in Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1991:2.
75. “The
United States,” in John Llewellyn and Stephen J. Potter, editors, Economic Policies for the 1990s,
Blackwell, Oxford, 1991.
76.
“Government Policy to Promote Economic Growth,” in William C. Brainard, William
D. Nordhaus, and Harold W. Watts, editors, Money,
Macroeconomics, and Economic Policy: Essays in Honor of James Tobin, MIT
Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1991.
77.
“Environmentally Sound Energy: ESETT '91 Symposium,” with U. Colombo and J. Goldemberg, Development,
1992:1, pp. 87-89.
78. “The
Ecology of Markets,” Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, vol. 89, February 1992, pp. 843-850, click here.
79. “An
Optimal Transition Path for Controlling Greenhouse Gases,” Science, vol. 258, November 20, 1992, pp. 1315-1319.
80.
“Climate and Economic Development: Climates Past and Climate Change Future,” Proceedings of the World Bank Annual
Conference on Development Economics: 1993, 1994, pp. 355-376.
81.
“Lethal Model II: The Limits to Growth Revisited,” Brooking Papers on Economic Activity, 1992:2.
82. “The
Economics of Greenhouse Warming: What are the Issues?” in Costs, Impacts, and Benefits of CO2 Mitigation, Y. Kaya, N. Nakicenovic, W. Nordhaus, and F. Toth, eds., IIASA, CP-93-1993.
83.
“Rolling the 'DICE': An Optimal Transition Path for Controlling Greenhouse
Gases,” Resource and Energy Economics,
vol. 15, 1993, pp. 27-50.
84.
“Economic Growth on a Planet Under Siege. “ in Horst Siebert, ed., Economic
Growth in the World Economy, J. C. B. Mohr, Tuebingen,
Germany, 1993, pp. 223-242.
85. “The
Impact of Climate on Agriculture: A Ricardian Approach,” with R. Mendelsohn and Dai Gee Shaw, in Costs, Impacts, and
Benefits of CO2 Mitigation,Y. Kaya,
N. Nakicenovic, W. Nordhaus, and F. Toth, eds.,
IIASA, CP-93-002, June 1993, CP-93.
86.
“Optimal Greenhouse-Gas Reductions and Tax Policy in the ‘DICE’ Model,” American Economic Review, May 1993, vol.
83, pp. 313-317.
87. “How
Much Should We Invest in Preserving Our Current Climate?” in Herbert Giersch, ed., Economic
Progress and Environmental Concerns, Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, 1993, pp. 255-299.
88.
“Reflections on the Economics of Climate Change,” Journal of Economic
Perspectives, vol. 7, issue 4, Autumn 1993, pp. 11
- 25.
89.
“Expert Opinion on Climatic Change,” American
Scientist, January-February 1994, vol. 82, pp. 45-51.
89a. “The
Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Approach,” with Robert Mendelsohn and Dai Gee Shaw, American Economic Review, September 1994, vol. 84, No. 4, pp.
753-771.
90.
“Policy Games: Coordination and Independence in Monetary and Fiscal Policies,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity,
1994:2, pp. 139-216.
91. “The
Ghosts of Climates Past and the Specters of Climate Change Future,” Energy Policy, Vol. 23, No. 4/5, 1995,
pp. 269-282.
92.
“Measuring National Saving,” Challenge,
May 1995.
93. “Do
Real Output and Real Wage Measures Capture Reality? The History of Light
Suggests Not,” Robert J. Gordon and Timothy F. Bresnahan, The Economics of New
Goods, University of Chicago Press for National Bureau of Economic Research,
1997, pp. 29-66.
94.
“Climate Amenities and Global Warming,” in Climate Change: Integrating Science,
Economics, and Policy, N. Nakicenovic, W. Nordhaus, R. Richels,
and F. Toth, eds., IIASA, CP-96-1, 1996, pp. 3-45.
95. “A
Regional Dynamic General-Equilibrium Model of Alternative Climate-Change
Strategies,” with Zili Yang, American Economic Review, vol. 86, No. 4,
September 1996, pp. 741-765.
96. “Climate
Impacts on Aggregate Farm Values: Accounting for Adaptation” (with Robert Mendelsohn and DaiGee Shaw),
Agriculture and Forest Meteorology, vol. 80, 1996.
97.
“Reflections on the Concept of Sustainable Economic Growth,” in Economic Growth
and the Structure of Long-Term Development, Luigi L. Pasinetti
and Robert M. Solow, eds., Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 309-325.
98.
“Locational Competition and the Environment: Should Countries Harmonize Their
Environmental Policies?” in Locational Competition in the World Economy,
Symposium 1994, ed., Horst Siebert, J. C. B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck),
Tuebingen, 1995, pp. 261-287.
99. “The
Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: Reply,” with Robert Mendelsohn, American Economic Review, Vol. 86, No. 5, 1996,
pp. 1312-1315.
100. “What
is the Value of Scientific Knowledge? An Application to
Global Warming Using the PRICE Model,” with David Popp, The Energy Journal, vol. 18, No. 1, 1997, pp. 1-45.
101.
“Beyond the CPI: An Augmented Cost of Living Index (ACOLI),” Business Economics, Vol. 32, No. 3, July
1997, pp. 48-54. [ACOL020199.PDF]
102.
“Traditional Productivity Estimates Are Asleep at the (Technological) Switch,” Economic Journal, vol. 107, September,
1997, p. 1548-1559.
103.
“Quality Change in Price Indexes,”
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter, 1997/78.
104.
“Discounting in Economics and Climate Change,” Climatic Change, No. 37, 1997, pp. 315-328.
105.
“Introduction to the Issues,” in William Nordhaus, ed., An Assessment of the Economics of Climate Change, editor, with
contribution, Resources for the Future Press, Washington, 1998.
106.
“Assessing the Economics of Climate Change: An Introduction,” in William D.
Nordhaus, ed., Economic and Policy Issues
in Climate Change, Resources for the Future Press, Washington, 1998.
107.
“Discounting and Public Policies That Affect the Distant Future,” in Paul Portney and John Weyant, Discounting and Intergenerational Equity, Resources for the Future,
1999.
108. “The
Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: Reply,” with Robert Mendelsohn, American
Economic Review, December 1999.
109.
“Requiem for Kyoto: An Assessment of the Economics of the Kyoto Protocol,” with
Joseph G. Boyer, The Energy Journal, Special Issue, 1999,
pp. 93-130.
110. “The
Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: Reply to Roy Darwin,” with Robert Mendelsohn, American
Economic Review, vol. 89, No. 4, September 1999, pp. 1053-1055.
111. “Globale Oeffentliche Gueter,” in Wilheom Krull, Zukunftsstreit, Velbrueck Wissenschaft, 2000, Goettingen, Germany.
112. “New
Directions in National Economic Accounting,” American Economic Review, May 2001.
113. “From
Porcopolis to Carbopolis:
The Evolution from Pork Bellies to Emissions Trading,” in Richard Kosobud, ed., Emissions
Trading, John Wiley, New York, 2000, pp. 61-73.
114. “The
Health of Nations: The Contribution of Improved Health to Living Standards,” in
Kevin Murphy and Robert Topel, eds., The Economic Value of Medical Research,
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2002.
115. “The
Economics of the Kyoto-Bonn Accord,” Science,
November 9, 2001, vol. 294, no. 5545, pp. 1283-1284.
116. “The
Recent Recession, the Current Recovery, and Stock Prices,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2002:1, pp. 199-200, click here.
117.
“Recommendations to the Bureau of Economic Analysis on Improving the National
Economic Accounts,” Survey of Current Business, May 2002.
118.
“Productivity Growth and the New Economy,” Brookings Papers on Economic
Activity, 2002:2, click here.
119. “Modeling Induced Innovation in Climate-Change Policy,” in Induced
Innovation and Climate Change: Collected Essays, ed. Arnulf Gruebler, Nebojsa Nakicenovic, and William Nordhaus, Resources
for the Future Press, Washington, D.C., 2002. For a preprint, click
here .
120. “The
Economic Implications of a War in Iraq.” A short version was published in The
New York Review of Books while the full version was published by the
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