威廉·诺德豪斯

生平

1963年到1973年，诺德豪斯在耶鲁大学取得了学士和硕士学位，在那儿他是骷髅会成员。他还获得政治学协会证书（1962）、麻省理工学院（1967）博士学位。1967年起任教于耶鲁，1986-1988年任学院院长，1992年至1993年任金融管理系副主任。他还是美国国家科学院院士，1972年起为布鲁金斯经济活动小组成员。1977年至1979年任经济顾问委员会成员。1999年起是瑞典皇家工程科学院外籍院士。

William Dawbney Nordhaus (May 31, 1941 – October 30, 2026) was an American economist. He was a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Nordhaus received the prize "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis".

Life and career

Nordhaus was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on May 31, 1941, the son of Virginia (Riggs) and Robert J. Nordhaus, who co-founded the Sandia Peak Tramway. Robert J. Nordhaus was from a German Jewish family – his father Max Nordhaus (1865–1936) had immigrated from Paderborn in 1883, and became a manager of The Charles Ilfeld Company branch in Albuquerque.

He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover and subsequently received his BA and MA from Yale in 1963 and 1972, respectively, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He also held a Certificate from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1962) and a PhD from MIT (1967). He was a visiting fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1970–1971. He was a member of the faculty at Yale from 1967 on, in both the Economics department and the School of the Environment.……

Contributions to economics and the study of climate change

Nordhaus was the author or editor of over 20 books. One of his early works is the wildly popular introductory textbook, Economics, co-authored with Paul Samuelson. Originally a project of Samuelson's alone, Nordhaus worked on the textbook from the 12th edition until the 19th (the most recent edition), starting in 1985. The book was first published in 1948 and has appeared in nineteen different editions and seventeen different languages since then. It was a best-selling economics textbook for decades and is still extremely popular today. Economics has been called a "canonical textbook", and the development of mainstream economic thought has been traced by comparing the nineteen editions over the 1948–2010 period.

He also wrote several books on global warming and climate change, one of his primary areas of research.……

Honors

Scientific and engineering academies

Among many honors, Nordhaus was a Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and an Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences from 1999 on. He was awarded the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize Archived July 12, 2021, at the Wayback Machine by the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2020.

American Economic Association

In 2004, Nordhaus was designated a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (AEA), along with George P. Shultz and William A. Brock.……

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics

Nordhaus was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2018, which he shared with Paul Romer. In detailing its reasons for giving the prize to Nordhaus, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences specifically recognized his efforts to develop "an integrated assessment model, i.e.……

Evaluations

The Nobel Foundation described Nordhaus's work as follows: "William Nordhaus's findings deal with interactions between society, the economy and climate change. In the mid-1990s, he created a quantitative model that describes the global interplay between the economy and the climate. Nordhaus's model is used to examine the consequences of climate policy interventions, for example carbon taxes." Additionally, the Nobel Prize announcement commented that Nordhaus had "significantly broadened the scope of economic analysis by constructing models that explain how the market economy interacts with nature." In an evaluation of the work, Lint Barrage summarizes its impact, stating that the "body of work also represents science at its best: integrative across disciplines, visionary in scope yet incremental in progress, transparent, and producing knowledge for the benefit of humankind."