How economists have misjudged global warming.
A major rift has opened up between scientists and economists over the issue of global warming. To some extent, science and economics have always been very separate entities because economists have never been able to attain the predictive rigor of the hard sciences. However, the rift between the di...
| Publicado en: | World Watch Vol. 14; no. 5; pp. 12 - 26 |
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September/October 2001
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