Why the cost of mitigating climate change can't be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists' best attempts
- Written by Matthew E. Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Renewable energy prices have fallen faster than predicted.ImageBROKER/LillyBack in November 2019, before the pandemic began, would you have guessed how important videoconferencing like Zoom would be in people’s lives just a few months later?
That’s the kind of challenge economists face when they try to put a single number on the...
