World Dynamics: Measurement Without Data

By William Nordhaus. 1973

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Perils of Long-Range Energy Forecasting (2000, background): “Despite the fact that some writings identified major flaws of The Limits to Growth right after the book’s publication [4, 5], too many people took seriously this grotesque portrayal of the world that pretended to capture the intricate interactions of population, economy, natural resources industrial”
The Use and Misuse of Models for Climate Policy (2015, unknown): “12In Pindyck (2016, 2017), I discuss the use of expert opinion to estimate the SCC in detail and present the results of a survey of economists and climate scientists and the average SCC estimates that those results imply.”
Optimal climate policy is a utopia: from quantitative to qualitative cost-benefit analysis (2004, background): “on both the original ‘‘Limits to growth’’ study and its follow-up (Nordhaus, 1973, 1992). J.C.J.M. van den Bergh / Ecological Economics 48 (2004) 385–393 387”
Managing without growth (2008, unknown): “(Nordhaus 1973)1”
Changing concepts of ‘land’ in economic theory: From single to multi-disciplinary approaches (2006, unknown): “A body of literature since the 1970s addresses different variations of the same basic question of optimal resource use over time (Solow, 1974; Nordhaus, 1973; Dasgupta and Heal, 1974).”
The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change (2020, unknown): “One can surmise that he relished this role, given not only his attacks on Forrester and the Limits to Growth (Meadows, Randers, et al., 1972; Nordhaus, 1973; Nordhaus et al., 1992), but also his attack on his fellow Neoclassical economist Nicholas Stern for using a low discount rate in The Stern…”
Sustainability economics: Where do we stand? (2008, background): “6 – Effects of predicted population growth on worldwide use of resource if consumption figures worldwide were equal to those of developed countries (1990 = 100%). of Rome (Meadows et al., 1972 ) and derided by its critics (Nordhaus, 1973b; Solow, 1973, 1974a, b).”
The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Seeking Empirical Regularity and Theoretical Structure (2010, background): “Economists engaged this debate with three counterarguments (e.g., Kneese and Ridker 1972; Nordhaus 1973; Solow 1973).”