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Why the cost of mitigating climate change can't be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists' best attempts

  • Written by Matthew E. Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
imageRenewable energy prices have fallen faster than predicted.ImageBROKER/Lilly

Back in November 2019, before the pandemic began, would you have guessed how important videoconferencing like Zoom would be in people’s lives just a few months later?

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