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Nobel-winning climate economist William Nordhaus dies

Original: William Nordhaus has died

William Nordhaus, the Yale economist who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economics for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis, has died. Nordhaus developed the DICE model linking economic growth and carbon emissions, shaping decades of climate policy debate, including debates over carbon pricing and the social cost of carbon. He spent his career at Yale, where tributes describe him as a devoted teacher and scholar.

Why now: News of the death of a Nobel laureate whose work defined climate economics is prompting widespread reaction and reappraisal of his legacy.

William NordhausYale UniversityNobel Prize

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