Gernot Wagner
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"2016 Outstanding Book of the Year "Most Likely to Save the Planet," Independent Publisher Book Awards" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in Economics 2015, chosen by Martin Wolf" "A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection" "One of the Globalist's Top Books of 2015" "Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015" Gernot Wagner is lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Martin L. Weitzman...
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You are one of seven billion people on Earth. Whatever you or I do personally-eat tofu in a Hummer or hamburgers in a Prius-the planet doesn't notice. In our confrontation with climate change, species preservation, and a planet going off the cliff, it is what several billion people do that makes a difference. The solution? It isn't science, politics, or activism. It's smarter economics.
The hope of mankind, and indeed of every living thing on the...