geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when …

This paper postulates the conceptually useful allegory of a futuristic "World Climate Assembly" (WCA) that votes for a … emitter's single-peaked most-preferred world price of carbon emissions to the world "Social Cost of Carbon" (SCC). The second … and third propositions relate the WCA-voted world price of carbon to the world SCC. I argue that the WCA-voted price and …

consumption, and the total dollar costs of completely insuring against temperature variation are 2.46% of world GDP. If we allow … evaluate the role of temperature in determining asset prices, and to compute utility-based welfare costs as well as dollar … costs of insuring against temperature fluctuations. We find that the temperature related utility-costs are about 0.78% of …

trillion dollars in direct military costs. I review the history of cost forecasts for these ongoing engagements, highlighting … the implications of the war costs themselves. Besides the unanticipated length and breadth of the military conflicts … themselves, a related and equally important component of costs is the life cycle of costs associated with caring for veterans …

This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and …, and the CBO's estimates put the projected total direct costs at around $500bn. These figures, however, greatly … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO …