Frank Ackerman is a research fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute and a senior scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute-US Centre, both at Tufts University. He is a founding member of Economists for Equity and Environment (E3) and a member scholar of the Centre for Progressive Reform.

This book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the major economic debates around the major new long-term challenge of our times - global warming. Frank Ackerman has done us all a great service with this very accessible critical survey of the varied and complicated issues involved.

• Acknowledgments1. The Status Quo is Not an Option2. Your Grandchildren's Lives are Important3. We Need to Buy Insurance for the Planet4. Climate Damages are too Valuable to Have Prices5. Some Costs are Better than Others6. Hot, it's Not: Climate Economics According to Lomberg7. Much Less Wrong: The Stern Review vs its Critics8. Climate, Equity and Development9. What is to be Done?NotesReferencesIndex

Frank Ackerman is a research fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute and a senior scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute-US Centre, both at Tufts University. He is a founding member of Economists for Equity and Environment (E3) and a member scholar of the Centre for Progressive Reform.

This book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the major economic debates around the major new long-term challenge of our times - global warming. Frank Ackerman has done us all a great service with this very accessible critical survey of the varied and complicated issues involved.

• Acknowledgments1. The Status Quo is Not an Option2. Your Grandchildren's Lives are Important3. We Need to Buy Insurance for the Planet4. Climate Damages are too Valuable to Have Prices5. Some Costs are Better than Others6. Hot, it's Not: Climate Economics According to Lomberg7. Much Less Wrong: The Stern Review vs its Critics8. Climate, Equity and Development9. What is to be Done?NotesReferencesIndex

Frank Ackerman is a research fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute and a senior scientist at Stockholm Environment Institute-US Centre, both at Tufts University. He is a founding member of Economists for Equity and Environment (E3) and a member scholar of the Centre for Progressive Reform.

This book is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the major economic debates around the major new long-term challenge of our times - global warming. Frank Ackerman has done us all a great service with this very accessible critical survey of the varied and complicated issues involved.

• Acknowledgments1. The Status Quo is Not an Option2. Your Grandchildren's Lives are Important3. We Need to Buy Insurance for the Planet4. Climate Damages are too Valuable to Have Prices5. Some Costs are Better than Others6. Hot, it's Not: Climate Economics According to Lomberg7. Much Less Wrong: The Stern Review vs its Critics8. Climate, Equity and Development9. What is to be Done?NotesReferencesIndex