Week 2: 9-05-06

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1. Please read the background and methodology papers of the Copenhagen Consensus, available here.

2. Please have a look at Bjorn Lomborg’s overview of the project here.

3. Please read The Economist’s overview articles on the Copenhagen Consensus:

• Economics Focus of March 6th.

Articles about the Copenhagen Consensus published in The Economist include:

• A remedy for financial turbulence? (April 15th 2004)
• The price of peace (April 22nd 2004)
• Climate Change (April 29th 2004)
• Feeding the hungry (May 6th 2004)
• Water and sanitation (May 13th 2004)
• Curbing disease (April 15th 2004)
• The learning deficit (April 22nd 2004)
• Fighting corruption (April 29th 2004)
• Migration and development (May 6th 2004)
• Trade and development (May 13th 2004)

4. Please also read these critiques:

Sachs, J. 2004. Seeking a global solution, Nature, 430:725-726.

Hans Martin Seip and Pål Prestrud, 2005. Commentary: Climate measures are not bad investments, CICERO.

If you come across other relevant materials that you would like to share with the class, please send to the list-serv.