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SUMMARY:13th Bernoulli Lecture by Andrew Oswald
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will cautiously disagree with four ideas that west
 ern society tends to take for granted: (I) Economic growth remains a desir
 able objective. (II) Increasing temperatures are leading to the rising num
 bers of natural disasters that we observe. (III) Most human beings care ab
 out climate change. (IV) The best way forward on climate-change would be t
 o adopt economists' solutions on carbon pricing\, etc.\\r\\nThe lecture wi
 ll describe evidence inconsistent with these four ideas. It will then try 
 to suggest where we go from here. Time will be left at the end of the lect
 ure for open discussion.\\r\\nAndrew Oswald is a professor of economics an
 d behavioural science at the University of Warwick in England. He serves o
 n the board of reviewing editors of the journal Science\, is chair of the 
 network advisory panel of the IZA Institute in Bonn in Germany\, and holds
  an honorary senior appointment at the wellbeing research centre in Oxford
 . His work has spanned economics\, psychology\, epidemiology\, public heal
 th\, primatology\, and statistics. He holds an honorary doctorate from the
  University of Basel.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>This lecture will cautiously disagree with four ideas that we
 stern society tends to take for granted: (I) Economic growth remains a des
 irable objective. (II) Increasing temperatures are leading to the rising n
 umbers of natural disasters that we observe. (III) Most human beings care 
 about climate change. (IV) The best way forward on climate-change would be
  to adopt economists' solutions on carbon pricing\, etc.</p>\n<p>The lectu
 re will describe evidence inconsistent with these four ideas. It will then
  try to suggest where we go from here. Time will be left at the end of the
  lecture for open discussion.</p>\n<p>Andrew Oswald is a professor of econ
 omics and behavioural science at the University of Warwick in England. He 
 serves on the board of reviewing editors of the journal Science\, is chair
  of the network advisory panel of the IZA Institute in Bonn in Germany\, a
 nd holds an honorary senior appointment at the wellbeing research centre i
 n Oxford. His work has spanned economics\, psychology\, epidemiology\, pub
 lic health\, primatology\, and statistics. He holds an honorary doctorate 
 from the University of Basel.</p>
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