Nick Stern's Ely Lecture on this topic at the New Orleans meetings was simply superb. It was comprehensive, lucid, and convincing--a tour de force. Too bad there was no time for questions at the end, so Avinash Dixit (the chair) had to end the session at the end of Nick's lecture.
Anyone know if there's a video of this online?
Posted by: aaron schiff | January 05, 2008 at 03:36 AM
Or the text?
Posted by: Nicholas Gruen | January 05, 2008 at 08:19 AM
There was an entire session the next day ("Stern and Its Critics"; it was in a small room at the Sheraton, so there was overflow into the hallway).
It featured the major JEL respondents (Nordhaus, and especially Weitzman). The report from the room (I couldn't get in) is that Stern had no response to Weitzman's argument: if you don't accept my reasoning, do you believe that Arrow-Debreu is invalid, and that the associated Swedish Bank Lottery Prizes should be returned?
Posted by: Ken Houghton | January 08, 2008 at 12:06 PM
The above, btw, in no way counters Dr. Rodrik's description of the talk: it was all that he said it was.
The only thing Stern's lecture didn't emphasize--and obvious I wish he had--is the damage that he already assumes will be done; that is, even if we did everything now, coral reefs as we know them today will still be history.
Posted by: Ken Houghton | January 08, 2008 at 12:09 PM
I agree that Stern's Ely lecture was excellent. I was unable to attend the other session as I was interviewing job candidates, except for a break to chair a session on "The Future of Comparative Economics."
Posted by: Barkley Rosser | January 08, 2008 at 04:37 PM
I just found the new 2008 AEA Conference Papers Listings webpage that I guess Stern's lecture may link from … I hope it is, in due course, made available here:
http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2008/
Posted by: inel | January 08, 2008 at 06:15 PM
And I hasten to note that Barkley did a fine job moderating the above-mentioned session, and that the panelists were uniformly interesting, if not always upbeat.
Posted by: Ken Houghton | January 08, 2008 at 08:25 PM
Thanks, Ken, :-).
Posted by: Barkley Rosser | January 09, 2008 at 12:48 PM
Nick's lecture can be found on:
http://www.occ.gov.uk/activities/stern_additional.htm
The lecture will appear in the May 2008 issue of the American Economic Review.
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