Recommended Books

The following books on climate economics are recommended by the climate economics taskforce:

Beyond the Global Divide: From Basic Needs to the Knowledge Revolution by Graciela Chichilnisky (Yale University Press, 2009)

Can We Afford the Future: The Economics of a Warming World by Frank Ackerman (Zed Books, 2009)

Saving Kyoto, by Graciela Chichilnisky and Kristen Sheeran (New Holland, 2009)

The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World: The Greenhouse Development Rights Framework by Paul Baer, Thomas Athanasiou, and Sivan Kartha (Heinrich Boll Stiftung, 2008)

Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Richard B. Howarth eds. (Elsevier, 2005)

Economic Models of Climate Change: A Critique by Stephen J. DeCanio (Palgrave, 2003)

Recommended Reports/Studies

Cap-and-Dividend: A State-by-State Analysis, by James K. Boyce and Matthew E. Riddle (PERI and E3 Network, 2009)

Greenhouse Gases and the American Lifestyle: Understanding Interstate Differences in Emissions, by Elizabeth A. Stanton, Frank Ackerman, and Kristen A. Sheeran (SEI-US and E3 Network, 2009)

Green Prosperity: How Clean-Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards in the United States, by Robert Pollin, Jeannette Wicks-Lim & Heidi Garrett-Peltier (PERI, 2009)

Climate Change: What We’ll Pay if Global Warming Continues Unchecked, by Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A. Stanton (SEI-US, 2008)

Green Recovery: A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a Low-Carbon Economy, by Robert Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, James Heintz, and Helen Scharber (PERI 2008)