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Nicholas Stern, The Global Beal: Climate Change and the Creation
of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity. London: The Bodley
Head; New York: Public Affairs, 2009. 248 pages, includes
references and index.   Lord Nicholas Stern has enjoyed an
illustrious career as an economics professor, as Chief Economist
of the World Bank and as an adviser to Gordon Brown, now British
Prime Minister. He headed the British government team that in
2006 produced the 700-page "Stern Review" on the economics of
climate change, and a very "stern" review it is. The report
concludes that the costs of inaction are dire. Somewhat in the
imperial tradition of William Gladstone, the moralizing 19th-
century British Prime Minister, Stern has now supplemented the
review with a book telling the world what is to be done.  "I am
not a campaigner," writes Nicholas Stern, but his passionate
arguments and seemingly angry response to his critics speak
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