Climate Change – The Costs of Inaction
By Frank Ackerman and Liz Stanton report released with Friends of the Earth UK, October 2006.
Tag: 2006
The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis
By Frank Ackerman and Ian J. Finlayson. October 2006 Why do economic models of climate change so often find that the “optimal” policy is to do very little about this serious global threat? Frank Ackerman and Ian Finlayson examine the widely used DICE model, focusing on its choice of a discount rate, its somewhat dated […]
The Economics of Inaction on Climate Change: A Sensitivity Analysis
Climate Policy, volume 6 no. 5 (2006), pp.509-526. by Frank Ackerman and Ian Finlayson (Despite the nominal publication date, this first appeared in print in mid-2007.) Visit Climate Policy Why do economic models of climate change so often find that the “optimal” policy is to do very little about this serious global threat? Frank Ackerman […]
Economics for Humans
By Julie A. Nelson Cloth, $16.00 The University of Chicago Press, 2006 “Can be read for pleasure and enlightenment by economists and non-economists alike.”— The Times Literary Supplement Order from University of Chicago Press Summary: Is it asking too much to demand that businesses be socially and environmentally responsible? When child care and elder care are […]
European Chemical Policy and the United States: The Impacts of REACH
By Frank Ackerman, Liz Stanton, and Rachel Massey. September, 2006
Can Climate Change Save Lives? A comment on “Economy-wide estimates of the implications of climate change: Human health
By Frank Ackerman and Liz Stanton. September 2006
Ethics and International Debt: A View from Feminist Economics
By Julie A. Nelson. August, 2006
Implications of REACH for the Developing Countries
By Frank Ackerman (principal author), Liz Stanton, Rachel Massey, Brian Roach, and others report from the International Chemical Secretariat (Chemsec) to the European Parliament. March, 2006.
The Unbearable Lightness of Regulatory Costs
By Frank Ackerman February, 2006