Becker Friedman Institute at UChicago – BFI
Apr 26, 2014
In this informal talk, William Nordhaus, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University and author of two widely used models of the economics of climate change, makes the case for using markets to mitigate the issue of global climate change by putting a price on pollution. If you experience technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to bfi.
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