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Global Warming, Global Poverty, and Globalization
ECON 1663

Jointly Offered with: Harvard Kennedy School as DEV 615

Course Information

Description

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.

Recommended Preparation: an introductory economics and econometrics course

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

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Department Economics
Course Component Lecture
Subject Economics
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Social Sciences
Course Level For Undergraduate and Graduate Students