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Crying No Wolf: Why Economists Don't Worry about Climate Change, andShould

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Chapman, D., Khanna, N. Crying No Wolf: Why Economists Don't Worry about Climate Change, andShould. Climatic Change 47, 225–232 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005685115053

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