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Climate Change Economics the right way and the fraudulent way

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This is a talk I gave to students at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam yesterday–where Richard Tol has a fractional appointment. It’s probably the most impassioned speech I have given on this topic to date. The more I delve into mainstream climate change economics, the more ludicrous attempts I find to reach a pre-ordained view that ...

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This is a talk I gave to students at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam yesterday–where Richard Tol has a fractional appointment. It’s probably the most impassioned speech I have given on this topic to date. The more I delve into mainstream climate change economics, the more ludicrous attempts I find to reach a pre-ordained view that climate change is no big deal. One of my patrons put this very well:



“Tol and Nordhaus, in my view, quite obviously reasoned backwards from a minimalist conclusion and sewed up their data to make it fit. The IPCC did the same thing to create their risk evaluations.”



Minsky can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/minsky/. The Minsky files used in this presentation are embedded in the Powerpoint file, which can be downloaded from https://www.patreon.com/posts/climate-change-33830124



Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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