From the May 2010 AERE Newsletter (you gotta join AERE to get the Newsletter):
Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy By Ian W.H. Parry and Felicia Day, editors This book brings together leading experts from across the social sciences to provide short, nontechnical assessments of a broad range of timely policy issues. Essays assess the current state of affairs in climate policy, natural resource depletion, air and water pollution, environment, and development. Broader problems related to energy dependence, expansion and congestion of urban areas, and public health issues, such as disease transmission, are also explored.
What a great idea! Get 100 qualified individuals, or teams, to produce brief, 2-page analyses of urgent policy issues—a nontechnical encyclopedia of current issues in climate, energy, ecology, and related topics. My suggestion: read one each day, and think about it all day. In a hundred days you’ll be hugely enriched. Only RFF could do this.
-- Thomas C. Schelling University of Maryland, College Park Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics.
This unique book offers an impressive set of brief, understandable, and authoritative analyses of 100 issues in the important policy areas on which recent RFF research has focused. It belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who has ever encountered an unfamiliar issue in this broad domain and wondered, “What is the best thinking on this?” It is a terrific source of readings for courses dealing with public policy.
-- Richard Schmalensee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Download the book for free at: www.rff.org/issuesoftheday
