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William R. Cline is a senior fellow jointly at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. During 1996-2001 while on leave from the Institute, Dr. Cline was deputy managing director and chief economist of the Institute of International Finance. He was senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (1973-81), deputy director for Development and Trade Research at the US Treasury (1971-73), Ford Foundation visiting professor in Brazil (1970-71), and assistant professor at Princeton University (1967-70). He is the author of 21 books, including The United States as a Debtor Nation (2005), Trade Policy and Global Poverty (2004), Trade and Income Distribution (1997), Predicting External Imbalances for the United States and Japan (1995), International Debt Reexamined (1995), The Economics of Global Warming (1992), and The Future of World Trade in Textiles and Apparel (2nd ed., 1990).
Bill Cline has been a pioneer in the study of the economic effects of global warming. His latest book on the effects on agriculture is of great importance and has provided another important landmark in the study of this crucial issue. -- Sir Nicholas Stern, I.G. Patel Chair, London School of Economics and Political Science For too long environmentalists and earth scientists in the rich world have had an unforntunate near-monopoly on serious concern about climate change and its mitigation.This book will help change that. -- James Gustave Speth, dean, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
