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‘We have a choice’: Joseph Stiglitz sees opportunity ahead
In 2015, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz returned to Horace Mann High School in Gary, Indiana, for his 55th high school reunion.
As Stiglitz gathered with his former classmates, he said, he saw first the impacts of economic inequality and “some of the consequences of not investing adequately in our young people.”
"Dominic Cruz Bustillos sat down with Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy within the Department of Political Science at Columbia University, editor of “Post-Soviet Affairs” and co-director of the International Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
As the impacts of climate change add up, economists are trying to figure out what the true cost of a tonne of carbon really is. . .
. . . The two have argued that the way the social cost of carbon was calculated overestimates of the costs of climate action and underestimates its benefits, and so puts the figure too low. At the moment, in the US the SCC is valued at $51 (£37) a tonne, but Stern and Stiglitz believe that it should not be much below $100 (£74) per tonne by 2030 . . .