Global Warming, Global Poverty, and Globalization

Harvard FAS

This course covers topics at the intersection of the economics of climate change, global development, and international trade. We start with an overview of the empirical methods and models economists use to quantify the unequal costs of global warming throughout the world. Given the concentration of vulnerability in low-income regions, we next introduce concepts from the macroeconomics of development in order to examine the ways in which warming presents a particular challenge for economic…