Just Economics

A Better Deal for People and Planet

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

AvAbhijit V. Banerjee,Esther Duflo,Michael Greenstone

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Why does a fisherman in Dakar work even longer hours when temperatures rise?What makes extreme heat in Seattle fifteen times more deadly than in Houston?Why can’t indigenous communities in Brazil get the help they desperately need?The lives of the world’s poorest are already harder, hotter and shorter, thanks to the actions of the world’s wealthiest. But just as the rich world’s emissions are finally falling, those from poorer countries are set to increase drastically. We seem to be caught in an impossible bind, but it’s not too late to find a way out.Just Economics proposes a refreshing new approach, arguing that progress is possible if the wealthiest countries compensate the poorest for the harms that their emissions cause and, in exchange, poorer countries commit to climate action. Drawing on meticulous original research and years of fieldwork around the world, Banerjee, Duflo and Greenstone quantify the damage inflicted on the poor, show how their grand bargain adds up and why it will work.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-01-19
Mått156 x 240 x 28 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagPenguin Books Ltd
ISBN9780241766491

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Abhijit Banerjee, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). In 2011, he was named one of Foreign Policy magazine’s top 100 global thinkers. Banerjee served on the U.N. Secretary-General’s High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Esther Duflo, winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-founder and co-director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL). Duflo is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2015), the Infosys Prize (2014), the Dan David Prize (2013), a John Bates Clark Medal (2010), and a MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship (2009). Michael Greenstone, distinguished professor at the University of Chicago, is co-director of the Climate Impact Lab.