Coming up at the University of Canterbury:
Professor Adrian Sawyer, Acting Pro-Vice-Chancellor of
the College of Business and Economics and Dean of Commerce, warmly invites you
to attend the 7th Annual Condliffe Memorial Lecture, ‘Why is
the economics of climate change so difficult and controversial? The
lecture will be delivered by Martin Weitzman, Professor in Economics at Harvard
University. Event details and an outline of the seminar are provided
below.
Date:
Thursday 17th November 4.30pm – 5.30pm. Refreshments to
follow
Venue: Law 108,
Ground floor, Law Building, University of Canterbury
RSVP:
by 10th November to karen.ashby@canterbury.ac.nz
Abstract:
In this lecture Professor Weitzman will focus on the special features of the
economics of climate change that make this area so very difficult to analyse by
conventional economic tools. He will discuss such topics as deep
structural uncertainty, whose preferences are included, the possibility of
catastrophic outcomes, discounting the distant future, and international public
goods. Professor Weitzman will speculate on how the dilemmas of climate
change might play themselves out.
Biography:Martin L. Weitzman is Professor of
Economics at Harvard University. Previously he was on the faculties of MIT and
Yale. He has been elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society and the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely in many leading
economic journals and written two books. Weitzman's interests in economics are
broad and he has served as consultant for several well-known organisations. His
current research is focused on environmental economics, including climate
change, the economics of catastrophes, cost-benefit analysis, long-run
discounting, green accounting, and comparison of alternative instruments for
controlling pollution. We look forward to seeing you on the 17th
of November.
I'll be there and I hope to see many of you there too.
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