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Nobel laureate economist William Nordhaus dies

Original: William Nordhaus has died

William Nordhaus, the Yale economist who won the Nobel Prize in 2018 for integrating climate change into economic analysis, has died, according to a Yale University announcement. Nordhaus developed the DICE model linking economic growth and carbon emissions, shaping decades of climate policy debates including the social cost of carbon. Tributes are highlighting his pioneering work on carbon pricing and his long career at Yale.

Why now: The death of a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose work underpins climate policy is major news and prompting tributes.

William NordhausYale UniversityNobel Prize

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