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  • Karen Clay and Werner Troesken, The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present (University of Chicago Press, 2011), chap. 10, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/economics-climate-change-adaptations-past-and-present/did-frederick-brodie-discover-worlds-first-environmental-kuznets-curve-coal-smoke-and-rise-and-fall.

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