The seminal contributions of William Nordhaus to scholarship on the long-run macroeconomics of global climate change are clear. Much more challenging to identify are the impacts of Nordhaus and his research on public policy in this domain. We examine three conceptually distinct pathways for that influence: his personal participation in the policy world; his research’s direct contribution to the formulation and evaluation of public policy; and his research’s indirect role informing public policy. Many of the themes that emerge in this assessment of the contributions of one of the most important economists to have worked in the domain of climate change analysis apply more broadly to the roles played by other leading economists in this and other policy domains.

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在权力走廊中翻滚骰子：威廉·诺德豪斯（William Nordhaus）对气候变化政策的影响

威廉·诺德豪斯（William Nordhaus）对全球气候变化的长期宏观经济学研究的重要贡献是显而易见的。要确定更具挑战性的是Nordhaus及其对这一领域公共政策的研究所产生的影响。我们考察了影响这一影响的三种概念上不同的途径：他个人对政策界的参与；他的研究对公共政策的制定和评估的直接贡献；以及他的研究对公共政策的间接影响。在评估一位最重要的经济学家在气候变化分析领域所做的贡献时，出现了许多主题，这些主题更广泛地适用于其他主要经济学家在该领域和其他政策领域所扮演的角色。