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yeeeees please. First it would create an incentive for me to finish my writing (always funnier when colleagues think about related issues at the same time). Second, our narrative stops in 95-99 when the formula stabilizes, and I would be super interested in your take on what came next - we don't...

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Will Wheeler's avatar Will Wheeler @willwheels1.bsky.social
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1) this is great stuff 2) Things get pretty interesting after 1998 when Weitzman publishes in JEEM (he also cites a couple of contemporaneous working papers, so the idea was germinating). Weitzman leads to Newell and Pizer which leads pretty directly to OMB's long-term discount rate schedule.

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... cover the Stern/Nordhaus controversy (no archival data yet, too recent even for history interviews imo), nor the subsequent revisions of the guidelines, and I'm curious about the 'backlash' suggested in the latest round of comments on OMB

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