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Wednesday, April 06, 2005

UD HAS DECIDED...

...to take the unusual step of posting new information relevant to the breaking Martin Weitzman story immediately, as it appears. Here is a brief description of Weitzman's research interests from the Harvard University Economics Department faculty page which UD believes begins to unravel his motivations [note italicized elements in particular]:

' PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:

Environmental economics and economic theory.

Research Topics: Environmental economics, economics of biodiversity, limits to growth, green accounting, discounting and the economics of global warming.
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