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Robert Stavins, an economist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, estimates that this cap-and-trade system, vs. a system of rigid caps on each firm's emissions, saves U.S. companies about $1 billion a year in compliance expenses. "It's the most cost-effective way to reduce emissions," he says, "and companies have an incentive to cut pollution so they can sell credits." The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that sulfur dioxide emissions have been halved since 1990 and that Americans save $50 billion a year in health and environmental costs associated with acid rain...
...claimed the lives of 23 people, starting with the 1975 assassination of CIA Athens station chief Richard Welch. The 19, including one woman, face a total of 2,000 counts of murder, bombing and bank robbery, among other charges. The alleged mastermind of the campaign, urbane French-born economist Alexandros Yiotopoulos, whose penchant for tweed jackets belies the image of a terrorist leader, rebuffed the allegations, calling them part of a "cheap Anglo-American plot." The suspected terrorists are being tried in the same bunker-like chamber where Greece's dreaded junta was tried nearly 30 years ago; the junta...
...number on it," says the senior intelligence official. "The last person who tried was [former chief economic aide to the President] Larry Lindsey, and he lost his job." Lindsey had estimated the total cost of war would be $100 billion to $200 billion. In one much quoted analysis, economist William Nordhaus of Yale University has said that the cost of war and reconstruction over a decade could range from a low of $100 billion to a high of $1.9 trillion. At current prices, that would make an Iraq war second only to World War II in its financial impact...
Andrei Shleifer ’82, a prize-winning economist but also a co-defendant in a $102 million federal suit against the University, will remain at Harvard despite an offer from New York University’s Stern School of Business...
Shleifer, 41, is a winner of the John Bates Clark Medal, which honors the nation’s top economist under age 40 and is seen within the field as nearly as prestigious as the Nobel Prize...