Bøger af Martin L. Weitzman

In Climate Shock, Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman explore in lively, clear terms the likely repercussions of a hotter planet, drawing on and expanding from work previously unavailable to general readers. They show that the longer we wait to act, the more likely it is that an extreme event will happen. Wagner and Weitzman help readers understand that we need to think about climate change in the same way that we think about insurance--as a risk management problem, only here on a global scale. Demonstrating that climate change can and should be dealt with--and what could happen if we don't do so--Climate Shock tackles the defining environmental and public policy issue of our time.

Martin L. Weitzman, one of America's leading economic theorists, has hit upon a central feature of our economic life as the cause of staflaction: the standard practice of paying workers a fixed wage, regardless of whether a company is doing well or poorly. Weitzman shows why an alternative labor payment system, in which a significant number of firms share profits revenues with their employees, provides immunity against stagflation by automatically soaking up unemployed labor and resisting inflation.

This compact and original exposition of optimal control theory and applications is designed for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in economics. It presents a new elementary yet rigorous proof of the maximum principle and a new way of applying the principle that will enable students to solve any one-dimensional problem routinely.