Riccardo Rebonato (France EDHEC Business School)

How to Think about Climate Change

Insights from Economics for the Perplexed But Open-Minded Citizen

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Produktbeschreibung

Intelligent laypersons are bewildered when faced with the complexity of climate change. Economics can give them a powerful tool to think clearly about the problem and to make up their own mind. The new-generation economics models are painting a radically different and exciting picture of the best course of climate action.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 648g
• ISBN-13: 9781009405003
• ISBN-10: 1009405004
• Artikelnr.: 68652258

Autorenporträt

Riccardo Rebonato is Professor of Finance at EDHEC and Scientific Director at the EDHEC Risk Climate Institute. He worked as a researcher at the nuclear research reactor at the Institut Laue Langevin, at Brookhaven National Laboratory and at Oxford University and has authored 11 books and 50 articles on finance, risk management and political economics. He is a current Board member of Nine Dots Prize with Cambridge University Press and a former Board member of ISDA and GARP.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The facts on the ground
3. Deep changes
4. How economists think about climate change
5. How economists look at choice
6. How utility theory works
7. From choice to utility
8. What are integrated assessment models?
9. How much should we care about future generations? 10. Growth
11. Population
12. So, what should we do? 13. Taking the dirty stuff out
14 The role of nuclear energy
15. Constraints
16. The plumbing
17. Unfinished business.