Climate change and common sense : essays in honour of Tom Schelling / edited by Robert Hahn and Alistair Ulph.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thinking through the climate change challenge / Robert W. Hahn and Alastair Ulph -- Norms, conventions, and institutions to cope with climate change / Tom Schelling -- Credible commitments, focal points, and tipping : the strategy of climate treaty design / Scott Barrett -- Tipping climate negotiations / Geoffrey Heal and Howard Kunreuther -- Bridging reality and the theory of international enviromental agreements / Charles D. Kolstad -- The cost of ambiguity and robustness in international pollution control / Anastasios Xepapadeas -- Time and the generations / Partha Dasgupta -- Discounting while treating generations equally / Geir B. Asheim -- Emerging markets and climate change : Mexican stand-off or low carbon race? / David J. Frame and Cameron J. Hepburn -- Moving US climate policy forward : are carbon taxes the only good alternative? / Ian Parry and Roberton C. Williams III -- Carbon taxes and the green paradox / Michael Hoel -- Derivative markets for pollution permits and incentives to innovate / Linda R. Cohen and Amihai Glazer -- Development and climate adaptation / Robert Mendelsohn -- Schelling's conjecture on climate and development : a test / David Anthoff and Richard S.J. Tol.