| Description |
x, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report |
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Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
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| Contents |
Climate change: adaptations in historical perspective / Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel -- Additive damages, fat-tailed climate dynamics, and uncertain discounting / Martin L. Weitzman -- Modeling the impact of warming in climate change economics / Robert S. Pindyck -- Droughts, floods and financial distress in the United States / John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H. Steckel -- The effects of weather shocks on crop prices in unfettered markets: the United States prior to the farm programs, 1895-1932 / Jonathan Fox, Price V. Fishback, and Paul W. Rhode -- Information and the impact of climate and weather on mortality rates during the Great Depression / Price V. Fishback, Werner Troesken, Trevor Kollmann, Michael Haines, Paul W. Rhode and Melissa Thomasson -- Responding to climatic challenges: lessons from U.S. agricultural development / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode -- The impact of the 1936 corn-belt drought on american farmers' adoption of hybrid corn / Richard Sutch -- The evolution of heat tolerance of corn: implications for climate change / Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker -- Climate variability and water infrastructure: historical experience in the western United States / Zeynep K. Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe -- Did Frederick Brodie discover the world's first environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal smoke and the rise and fall of the London fog / Karen Clay and Werner Troesken -- Impacts of climate change on residential electricity consumption: evidence from billing data / Anin Aroonruengsawat and Maximilian Auffhammer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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Climatic changes -- Economic aspects -- United States -- Congresses.
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Ecology -- Economic aspects -- Congresses.
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| SUBJECT |
United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 -- Environmental conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005384 -- Economic aspects http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005484 -- Congresses.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Libecap, Gary D.
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Steckel, Richard H. (Richard Hall), 1944-
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| LC no. |
2010037305 |
| ISBN |
9780226479880 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226479889 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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