Nobel Laureate to Speak on Greenhouse Dangers
WILLIAMSTOWN - Thomas C. Schelling, who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics, will deliver the talk "What is the Greenhouse Danger, and Can We Manage It?" on Thursday, April 10, at 8 p.m.The event will be held in the '62 Center on the Williams College campus. The public is invited and the event is free.
The talk is the keynote address of a conference on "Global Warming and Developing Countries: Addressing and Coping with the Challenge," which will take place on Friday, April 11. The conference is open to the public. A schedule of events can be found here.
Schelling has been involved in the global warming debate since chairing a commission for President Carter in 1980. He is presently a participant in the Copenhagen Consensus, which analyzes the world's great challenges and establishes a framework in which solutions to problems are prioritized according to efficiency based upon economic and scientific analysis.
Schelling, who is Distinguished University Professor at the Maryland School of Public Affairs, was previously at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy. He has held positions in the White House and Executive Office of the President, Yale University, the RAND Corporation and the Department of Economics and Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
He has published on military strategy and arms control, energy and environmental policy, climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, organized crime, foreign aid and international trade, conflict and bargaining theory, racial segregation and integration, the military draft, health policy, tobacco and drugs policy, and ethical issues in public policy and in business.
The lecture and conference is being hosted by the Center for Development Economics, Center for Environmental Studies, and the department of geosciences, with the generous support of the Mellon and Luce Foundations.
