William Nordhaus Quotes

United States, Economist
May 31, 1941

William Dawbney Nordhaus is an American economist and Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modelling and climate change. He is one of the laureates of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Nordhaus received the prize "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis".

Attempts to estimate the impacts of climate change continue to be highly speculative.

William Nordhaus
- Change
- Impact
- Climate
An economist is a scoundrel who tells you the way things are rather than the way you want them to be.

William Nordhaus

Sensible policies on global warming should weight the costs of slowing climate change against the benefits of slower climate change. Ironically, recent policy initiatives, such as the Kyoto Protocol of 1997, have been introduced without any attempt to link the emissions controls with the benefits of the lower emissions.

William Nordhaus
- Policy
- Benefits
- Climate
The strategy behind the Kyoto Protocol has no grounding in economics or environmental policy.

William Nordhaus