"Schmidt, somewhat fatalistically, said that “we’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway,” and argued that rather than focus on reducing emissions, “I’d rather bet on A.I. solving the problem.”" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/climate/ai-big-tech-emissions.html

I'd replace "fatalistically" with "disingenuously": the basic economic theory to stabilise climate has been around a century: #Pigou, #Coase... We don't implement it because we prefer to cash in the future now. AI can't fix our preferences. #climatechange #economics #econsky

Wonderful anecdote from Jacob #Viner about #Pigou at the 1928 Harris Foundation round tables:

“I am not in the habit of reading the books I myself have written.”

If you'd like to learn about famous #economists, we've got #podcasts on all of these:

#Smith
#Marx
#Ricardo
#Keynes
#Hayek
#Friedman
#Pigou
#Ostrom
#Robinson
#Malthus
#Khaldun
#Kahneman
#Fawcett
#Schumacher
#Schumpeter
#Sen
#DeSolo
#Yunus
#Duflo
#Phillips
#Gini
#NashJr
#Lewis
#Buchanan
#Kuznets
#Marshall
#Veblen

With more to come... #econtwitter

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