William D. Nordhaus Journalist Profile

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Policies, projections, and the social cost of carbon: Results from the DICE-2023 model | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mar 19, 2024 | pnas.org | William D. Nordhaus |Amanda Giang |Morgan Edwards |Sarah Fletcher

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Piketty Vs. Taylor Swift

Feb 22, 2024 | hoover.org | David Henderson |William D. Nordhaus

Contrary to what I used to believe before I researched this article, 19th-century French novelist Honoré de Balzac did not say, “Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.” Yet he is often thought to have said it and certainly a fair number of people, especially on the left, seem to believe it. Indeed, although my father, a public school teacher, never said it explicitly, he seemed to attribute even small fortunes to some kind of crime.
How Malthus Got It Wrong

Jan 11, 2024 | hoover.org | David Henderson |Thomas Malthus |William D. Nordhaus

Something that seems obvious if you think about it for a minute is that a growing population pushing on a finite planet means that resources will become pricier and people will become, on average, poorer. In 2019, Bill Maher, for example, who most people, including me, think is a smart person, stated, “In 1900, there were less [sic] than two billion people on Earth; now it’s approaching eight. We can’t just keep on like this.
A Wealth Tax Reality Check

Jun 5, 2023 | econlib.org | Richard B. McKenzie |Adam Smith |Karl Marx |William D. Nordhaus

At every opportunity, President Joe Biden has pressed a central tenet of his social agenda: “Extremely wealthy Americans don’t pay their fair share of federal income taxes” (emphasis added). By Internal Revenue Service definitions of income, top income earners generally pay a far greater federal income-tax share than do lower income groups.
Policies, Projections, and the Social Cost of Carbon: Results from the DICE-2023 Model

Apr 6, 2023 | nber.org | William D. Nordhaus

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