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- S1 : Greenhouse effect
- S2 : Anthropogenic cause
- S3 : Future scenarios of temperature increases
- S4 : Impacts on Earth’s systems
- S5 : Impacts on economic and social systems
- E1 : Mitigation as a social dilemma
- E2 : Carbon pricing
- E3 : Discounting in reference to climate change
- E4 : Inequality in reference to climate change
- E5 : Social Cost of Carbon and IAMs
- E6 : Persistency & irreversibility in reference to climate change
- E7 : Climate decision-making under uncertainty
- E8 : Climate policies
- E9 : Behavioural issues in reference to climate change
- E10 : Adaptation and geoengineering
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Microeconomics textbooks devote more than four times more space to climate change topics than Macroeconomics textbooks.
The number of pages devoted to climate change topics were 4.03 in Microeconomics vs. 0.85 in Macroeconomics. As a share of the total number of pages in a textbook, the percentages are 0.70% vs. 0.18 %. In terms of number of keywords, the average frequencies are 53 and 11, respectively (Climate, Carbon, GHG, Greenhouse, Global warming, Atmospher*, and temperature)
In Indian textbooks, climate change topics are practically absent. Out of 13 Indian books, only one mentions climate change topics. In other words, there is a clear pattern by country in how much economics textbooks cover climate change: India devotes on average 0.1 pages (N = 13), France 2.2 pages (N = 18), and the United States 4.31 pages (N = 26). The corresponding figures in terms of share of the book are 0.01 %, 0.72 %, and 0.71 %, respectively. French textbooks seem to be typically shorter than US textbooks, but with a similar share of pages devoted to climate change. In terms of frequency of keywords per textbook, the average counts are about 2, 20, and 64, respectively. Note that our classification by country does not properly reflect the state of introductory economics education in that country because typically books originally written for the US are also adopted in France and India.
