The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2018
Awarded on: 2018-10-01
"for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis"
Affiliations:
- Yale University – New Haven, CT, USA
William D. Nordhaus
Born: 1941-05-31 in Albuquerque, NM, USA
Gender: male
Field: American economist and Nobel laureate (1941–2026)
Biography
William Dawbney Nordhaus was an American economist. He was a Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale University, best known for his work in economic modeling and climate change, and a co-recipient of the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Nordhaus received the prize "for integrating climate change into long-run macroeconomic analysis".