Professor Martin Weitzman Delivers Max Weber Lecture at EUI

Harvard Economics Professor Martin Weitzman recently gave the the Max Weber Lecture at the European University Institute in Florence, on October 21, 2015.

The title of Professor Weitzman's invited lecture was, “Why is the Economics of Climate Change so Difficult and Controversial?”  And his abstract and presentation may be found online here.

The Max Weber Lectures are given monthly by distinguished scholars at the EUI.

Martin L. Weitzman is Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Previously he was on the faculties of MIT and Yale. He has been elected as a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely in many leading economic journals and written three books. Weitzman's interests in economics are broad and he has served as consultant for several well-known organizations. His current research is focused on environmental economics, including climate change, the economics of catastrophes, cost-benefit analysis, long-run discounting, green accounting, and comparison of alternative instruments for controlling pollution.