Martin Weitzman
Martin Weitzman | |
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| Born | Meyer Levinger April 1, 1942 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | August 27, 2019 (aged 77) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Spouse | Jennifer Bäverstam Weitzman |
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| Alma mater | Swarthmore College (BA) Stanford University (MS) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD) |
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| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Environmental economics |
School or tradition | Environmental economics |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
Doctoral students | Nat Keohane, Andrew Metrick, Richard G. Newell, Gernot Wagner |
| Awards | Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015 for Climate Shock |
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alma_mater which should be merged into education.Martin Lawrence Weitzman (April 1, 1942 – August 27, 2019) was an American economist and a professor of economics at Harvard University. Weitzman joined the Yale University faculty, in 1967, before moving to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and then the economics department at Harvard University in 1989, where he taught until his death in 2019. Weitzman was a leading economist whose research was focused largely on environmental economics, specifically climate change and the economics of catastrophes. He is, among others, a co-author, with Gernot Wagner, of Climate Shock, a Top 15 Financial Times-McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015.