Martin Weitzman
American economist (1942-2019) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 77
Martin Lawrence Weitzman was an American economist and a professor of economics at Harvard University.
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Weitzman joined the Yale University faculty, in 1967, before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then the economics department at Harvard University in 1989, where he taught until his death in 2019. Weitzman was a leading economist whose research was focused largely on environmental economics, specifically climate change and the economics of catastrophes. He is, among others, a co-author, with Gernot Wagner, of Climate Shock, a Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015.
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