The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of...

A number of recent discussions about ethical issues in climate change, as engaged in by economists, have focused on the value of the parameter representing the rate of time preference within models of optimal growth. This essay examines many economists' antipathy to serious discussion of ethical...

There are long-standing debates in the financial economics literature regarding long-run risks, return seasonality, the impact of weather and the impact of climate. By disentangling the data into different frequencies this paper contributes several results to these topics. I find significant...

Voluntary disclosure should naturally arise in theory but may not in practice due to real-world frictions. This is important as self-selection bias could lead to erroneous results in statistical analyses of the disclosed data. This paper investigates climate-related disclosure in a...