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Martin Weitzman

Martin Weitzman
Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics

 Office: Littauer 313 
 Assistant: Catherine H. Nehring
 Email: mweitzman@harvard.edu
 Web: http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/Weitzman
Research Interests:

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Climate Change, Discounting, Economics of Catastrophes, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Comparison of Alternative Instruments for Controlling Pollution, Green Accounting, Economics of Biodiversity, Role of Uncertainty in Environmental Economics.

Environmental Courses:

Econ 1666: The Economics of Climate Change
Econ 2680: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Econ 2690hf: Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar
Econ 3680hf: Research in Environmental Economics
API-905Y: Seminar on Environmental Economics and Policy

Related Publications:

Reactions to the Nordhaus Critique. (2009)
Some Basic Economics of Climate Change. (2009)
On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change. (2008)
Some Dynamic Economic Consequences of the Climate Sensitivity Inference Dilemma. (2008) 
The Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change. (2007) 
Icelandic Fisheries Management: Fees vs. Quotas. (2007)
Harvesting versus Biodiversity: An Occam’s Razor Version. (2001) 

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