Martin Weitzman: A Gift That Keeps on Giving

Robert N. Stavins and Gernot Wagner

Chapter 2 in Economics of Environment, Climate Change, and Wine:Selected Papers of Robert N Stavins, Volume 3 (2011–2023), 2025, pp 19-29 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This special issue is a reminder that the world lost a truly remarkable scholar when Martin Weitzman sadly passed away in 2019. Across five decades, he explored policy options for the most challenging issues — from unemployment and inflation in the 1970s to climate change in the twenty-first century. In this chapter, we provide a brief biography and personal remembrance of Weitzman and describe how his contributions advanced the thinking of environmental economists, and the thoughts and actions of policy makers on many fundamental issues. We conclude with a brief description of the articles that follow in this issue…

Keywords: Climate Change Economics; Climate Change Policy; Wine Economics; Environmental Economics; Energy Economics; Natural Resource Economics; Energy-Efficiency Gap; Climate Negotiators; Carbon Pricing; Carbon Pricing Policy; Greenhouse; SO2 Allowance Trading System; Clean Air Act; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Durban Climate Talks; The Paris Agreement; Terroir (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 Q54 Q56 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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