Global Warming, Global Poverty, and Globalization
DEV 615
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This course covers topics at the intersection of the economics of climate change, global development, and international trade. We start with an overview of the empirical methods and models economists use to quantify the unequal costs of global warming throughout the world. Given the concentration of vulnerability in low-income regions, we next introduce concepts from the macroeconomics of development in order to examine the ways in which warming presents a particular challenge for economic growth and global poverty alleviation. In the latter portion of the course, we introduce topics from the theory of international trade and tools from spatial economics that will allow us to explore evidence on the ways in which global market integration can affect both adaptation to the effects of warming and efforts to reduce global emissions.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
