Climate Change and Agriculture: An Economic Analysis of Global Impacts, Adaptation and Distributional Effects
本书批判了认为社会无法适应气候变化的错误观点，通过22个国家的农业数据，运用李嘉图分析方法，论证农民会主动适应气候变化，并质疑成本效益估算的必要性。
Few myths in climate change research produced more errors than assuming that society cannot adapt. In the view of Richard Mendelsohn and Ariel Dinar, the essential thing about society is not that it needs to adapt to climate change but that it adapts without effort. Their book appears at a critical point in a methodological crisis on how to estimate the costs and benefits of adaptation and mitigation policies. Its most important message is that farmers have and will adapt to change. In effect, Mendelsohn and Dinar imply that both the theorist and the practical policy-maker could consider ignoring the pressures to produce cost and benefit estimates. The book is a grand tour through the agriculture of 22 countries, analysing their sensitivity to climate change. The authors' longstanding collaboration becomes apparent in the wealth of data, the comprehensive analysis and the well-structured discourse. At the core of their analytical method is the theory of David Ricardo. Loosely, Ricardian analysis of climate change impacts uses cross-sectional evidence to estimate the adaptation response to climate change that occurs over time – that is, that farmers create their future. Such a view implies a powerful case for belittling the importance of policy development.