Preface/Acknowledgments Climate Change: Adaptations in Historical Perspective Gary D. Libecap and Richard H. Steckel 1. Additive Damages, Fat-Tailed Climate Dynamics, and Uncertain Discounting Martin L. Weitzman 2. Modeling the Impact of Warming in Climate Change Economics Robert S. Pindyck 3. Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff, and Richard H.

Steckel 4. The Effects of Weather Shocks on Crop Prices in Unfettered Markets: The United States Prior to the Farm Programs, 1895-1932 Jonathan Fox, Price V. Fishback, and Paul W. Rhode 5. Information and the Impact of Climate and Weather on Mortality Rates During the Great Depression Price V. Fishback, Werner Troesken, Trevor Kollmann, Michael Haines, Paul W. Rhode, and Melissa Thomasson 6. Responding to Climatic Challenges: Lessons from U.

S. Agricultural Development Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode 7. The Impact of the 1936 Corn-Belt Drought on American Farmers' Adoption of Hybrid Corn Richard Sutch 8. The Evolution of Heat Tolerance of Corn: Implications for Climate Change Michael J. Roberts and Wolfram Schlenker 9. Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure: Historical Experience in the Western United States Zeynep K.

Hansen, Gary D. Libecap, and Scott E. Lowe 10. Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog Karen Clay and Werner Troesken 11. Impacts of Climate Change on Residential Electricity Consumption: Evidence from Billing Data Anin Aroonruengsawat and Maximilian Auffhammer.