Everything about William Nordhaus totally explained
William Dawbney "Bill" Nordhaus (born
May 31,
1941 in
Albuquerque,
New Mexico) is the
Sterling Professor of
Economics at
Yale University.
Nordhaus received his B.A. from Yale in 1963, and his Ph.D. from
MIT in 1967. He has been a member of the faculty at Yale since 1967, and has also served as its
Provost from 1986-88 and its Vice President for Finance and Administration from 1992-93.
Among myriad honors, he's a member of the
National Academy of Sciences, and has been on the
Brookings Panel on Economic Activity since 1972. Along with
Charles L. Schultze and
Lyle Gramley, from 1977-79, Nordhaus was a member of the
Council of Economic Advisers during the
Carter administration.
Nordhaus is the author of many books. He is the co-author of the textbook
Economics, the original editions of which was written by
Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. The book is currently in its 18th edition, and has been translated into at least 17 other languages. He has also written several books on
global warming and
climate change, one of his primary areas of research, including
Managing the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate Change and
Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming (with Joseph Boyer).
In 1972 Nordhaus, along with fellow Yale economics professor
James Tobin, published
Is Growth Obsolete?, an article that introduced the
Measure of Economic Welfare as the first model for economic
sustainability assessment.
Nordhaus lives in
New Haven,
Connecticut, with his wife Barbara.
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