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William D. Nordhaus

William D. Nordhaus

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Economics and Finance
USA
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
98
Citations
66078
World Ranking
117
National Ranking
91

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Nobel Prize for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis
  • 2018 - Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis
  • 2017 - BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
  • 2004 - Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association
  • 2001 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

William D. Nordhaus is affiliated with Yale University in the United States and specializes in the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a particular focus on climate change policy, environmental economics, and economic growth. Their work encompasses several subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering.

Major topics covered in their research include Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Economic Growth and Productivity, Economic Theories and Models, Economic Theory and Policy, and the intersection of Energy, Environment, and Economic Growth.

Notable recent publications by William D. Nordhaus include:

  • "Policies, projections, and the social cost of carbon: Results from the DICE-2023 model" (2024), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Are We Approaching an Economic Singularity? Information Technology and the Future of Economic Growth" (2020), published in American Economic Journal Macroeconomics
  • "Dynamic climate clubs: On the effectiveness of incentives in global climate agreements" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Policies, Projections, and the Social Cost of Carbon: Results from the Dice-2023 Model" (2023), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Measuring the US employment situation using online panels: The Yale Labor Survey" (2023), published in Journal of Economic and Social Measurement

The scientist has frequently collaborated with coauthors such as Lint Barrage, Douglas Rivers, Christopher L. Foote, Tyler Hounshell, and Pamela Torola.

William D. Nordhaus has contributed books published by Princeton University Press, including two editions of The Spirit of Green published in 2021. These works intersect environmental economics and policy.

Regular venues for their research include Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SSRN Electronic Journal, American Economic Journal Macroeconomics, Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, and ICPSR Data Holdings.

Over their career, this researcher has been recognized with several awards including the Nobel Prize in 2018, cited for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis. Other distinctions include the Nobel Memorial Prize laureates in Economics (2018), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2017), Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association (2004), membership in the National Academy of Sciences (2001), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1984), and Fellow of the Econometric Society (1984).

Best Publications

  • The political business cycle

    William D. Nordhaus

  • A Question of Balance: Weighing the Options on Global Warming Policies

    William D. Nordhaus

  • The Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture: A Ricardian Analysis: Reply

    Robert Mendelsohn;William D. Nordhaus

  • Managing the Global Commons: The Economics of Climate Change

    William D. Nordhaus

  • A Review of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change

    William D. Nordhaus

  • To slow or not to slow : The economics of the greenhouse effect

    William D. Nordhaus

  • Warming the World: Economic Models of Global Warming

    William D. Nordhaus;Joseph Boyer

  • What is the Value of Scientific Knowledge? An Application to Global Warming Using the PRICE Model

    William D. Nordhaus;David Popp

  • Abrupt climate change

    RB Alley;Jochem Marotzke;WD Nordhaus;JT Overpeck

  • Using luminosity data as a proxy for economic statistics

    Xi Chen;William D. Nordhaus

  • A Regional Dynamic General-Equilibrium Model of Alternative Climate-Change Strategies

    William D. Nordhaus;Zili Yang

  • Revisiting the social cost of carbon

    William D. Nordhaus

  • An optimal transition path for controlling greenhouse gases.

    William D. Nordhaus

  • A Question of Balance

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  • The "Stern Review" on the Economics of Climate Change

    William D Nordhaus

  • Invention, Growth, and Welfare: A Theoretical Treatment of Technological Change

    William D. Nordhaus

  • Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-riding in International Climate Policy †

    William Nordhaus

  • The Medium Run

    Olivier J. Blanchard;William D. Nordhaus;Edmund S. Phelps

  • Is growth obsolete

    William D Nordhaus;James Tobin

  • Geography and macroeconomics: New data and new findings

    William D. Nordhaus

  • The Allocation of Energy Resources

    William D. Nordhaus

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park
Kenneth J. Arrow
Kenneth J. Arrow Stanford University
Christian Gollier
Christian Gollier Toulouse School of Economics
Martin L. Weitzman
Martin L. Weitzman Harvard University
James Tobin
James Tobin Yale University
Thomas Sterner
Thomas Sterner University of Gothenburg
Robert Mendelsohn
Robert Mendelsohn Yale University

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