{"id":6593,"date":"2016-02-19T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T07:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2016-02-19T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T07:09:12","slug":"the-contribution-of-economics-to-the-gloomy-debate-about-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2016\/02\/19\/the-contribution-of-economics-to-the-gloomy-debate-about-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The contribution of economics to the gloomy debate about climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another day; another seminar \u2013 it's just the hectic life of a retiring academic.<\/p>\n

This time, it was a trip to Bath to listen to\u00a0Michael Finus, who has a Chair in Environmental Economics, give an I-SEE seminar<\/a>\u00a0on the contribution of economics to the debate about climate change. \u00a0The pre-blurb for the event, said that Finus\u00a0would ...<\/p>\n

\"review possible contributions of economics to the climate change debate [,] aim to point out the deficiency of some approaches in economics which have been very influential in the policy debate [and] then discuss a couple of issues to which economics can contribute something meaningful to the discussion about addressing the climate change problem.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I went along all enthused as I hoped that, in addition to talking about the\u00a0the contribution of economics to the debate about climate change, he might also touch on\u00a0the contribution of climate change to the debate about\u00a0economics. \u00a0But he didn't. \u00a0There were some fine graphs and tables, however. \u00a0His final slide was this cartoon from the Economist<\/a> in 2009:<\/p>\n

\"D4709WW0\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I'll say some more later on about the actual discussion, but the cartoon shows that, in Finus's capable hands, economics lived up to its reputation as the gloomy science.<\/p>\n

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