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William D. Nordhaus

William D. Nordhaus is Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University. This article is based on a keynote address the author presented to the preparatory scientific conference for the Conference of the Parties, Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, and Decisions, in Copenhagen, Denmark in March 2009.


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The architecture of climate economics: Designing a global agreement on global warming

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