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Commentary: The Stern Review's Economics of Climate Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2020

Partha Dasgupta
Partha Dasgupta*
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University of Cambridge
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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 199 , 01 January 2007 , pp. 4 - 7
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Copyright © 2007 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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These comments were prepared for a seminar on the Stern Review's Economics of Climate Change, organised by the Foundation for Science and Technology at the Royal Society, London, on November 8, 2006. The Review is a long and impressive document. The authors have put together much that is now known about the effects of carbon emissions on human well-being and they remind readers of those matters that are very unknown. It is possible though that readers will not notice that the authors have treated one important aspect of the Review's economic analysis cavalierly. The comments that follow are directed at that aspect.

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