Why the cost of mitigating climate change can't be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists' best attempts
- Written by Matthew E. Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Back in November 2019, before the pandemic began, would you have guessed how important videoconferencing like Zoom would be in people’s lives just a few months later?
That’s the kind of challenge economists face when they try to put a single number on the...