We believe the ultimate moral defense of markets is that they divert people who otherwise would raise armies and start religions into peacefully productive pursuits.
We believe markets, to quote Nicholas Stern, are how we take care of peop…Milton Friedman
Neven Sesardic
Nick Land
Paul Collier
Paul Johnson
Paul Romer
Ray Kurzweil
Richard Feynman
Rose Wilder Lane
Stephen Wolfram
Stewart Brand
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Thomas Sowell
Vilfredo Pareto
Virginia Postrel
Willia…
William Nordhaus
economist · 2 mentions across 1 reading
In this course
Nordhaus appears here primarily as a reference point for market-based approaches to systemic problems, particularly climate change through economic modeling rather than regulatory intervention. His inclusion in this list of thinkers suggests the course is engaging with how economists frame technological and environmental challenges as amenable to market mechanisms and pricing signals. The citation is relatively light—appearing in a table of contents—but signals his relevance to debates about whether markets and economic incentives can address existential risks that typically seem to demand political or technical intervention.
Background
William Dawbney Nordhaus is 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".
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Adam Neumann 1David Ulevitch 1Marc Andreessen 1Martin Casado 1Milton Friedman 1Neven Sesardic 1Nick Land 1Paul Collier 1Paul Johnson 1Paul Romer 1Ray Kurzweil 1Richard Feynman 1Rose Wilder Lane 1Stephen Wolfram 1Stewart Brand 1Thomas Sowell 1Vijay Pande 1Vilfredo Pareto 1Virginia Postrel 1William Lewis 1David Ricardo 1Nicholas Stern 1