Contra Krugman, episode 160.

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Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.

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Hi, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman. We are talking today

about the Nobel Prize winners who were announced

earlier this week. They are William Nordhaus and Paul Romer. Primarily, though, we're talking

about Nordhaus because it so happens that Nordhaus is particularly well known these days for some

work he's done in an area in which Bob has also done a lot of work,

and that has to do with the economics of climate change. He's also written on the carbon tax,

but we can certainly, we want to make particular mention of what he has to say about targets,

let's say, for global warming and what would be acceptable and whatnot,

because there's some interesting contradictions here between what Nordhaus is saying.

And, well, anyway, look, I don't want to suck the whole episode into my opening remarks.

So, Bob, let's first note that at contracruigman.com slash 160, we're going to have a couple of pieces by Bob.

One of them's a peer-reviewed paper, and the other one is a short piece, Bob, that you wrote just the other day for the Institute for Energy Research, so that you can follow up on what we're saying.

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