William Nordhaus

About the author

Born in Albuquerque in 1941, William Nordhaus is an American economist whose career at Yale University, where he held the distinguished rank of Sterling Professor of Economics, centered on a question few economists took seriously for decades: how climate change reshapes long-run economic growth. His pioneering work integrating climate dynamics into macroeconomic modeling earned him the 2018 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, shared with a co-recipient, with the Nobel committee citing precisely that contribution as the basis for the award.