Nobel prize-winning economics of climate change is misleading and dangerous – here's why
- Written by Steve Keen, Honorary Professor of Economics, UCL

While climate scientists warn that climate change could be catastrophic, economists such as 2018 Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus assert that it will be nowhere near as damaging. In a 2018 paper published after he was awarded the prize, Nordhaus claimed that 3°C of warming would reduce global GDP by just 2.1%,...