5 papers
The neglected contributions of Thomas C. Schelling to the economics of climate change
Richard S. J. Tol
The rich have emitted the bulk of greenhouse gases. The poor suffer the bulk of the impacts. Climate change is a transfer from poor to rich. Climate policy is a transfer from rich…
The Process and Dynamics of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, 1969-2025
Peter J. Dolton, Richard S. J. Tol
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics has been awarded annually since 1969. Who wins the prize is a topic of much interest and tracks the whole course of the academic discipline ov…
Climate determinism reborn
Richard S. J. Tol
Environmental determinism in the past followed from the belief that the gods bestowed political power and the best possible weather on the sponsors of early scholars. Although late…
Nobel begets Nobel
Richard S. J. Tol
I construct the professor-student network for laureates of and candidates for the Nobel Prize in Economics. I study the effect of proximity to previous Nobelists on winning the Nob…
The economic impact of weather and climate
Richard S. J. Tol
I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production f…