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Greetings, I have a small edit request for this page. Mr. Rubin recently published a new book and launched a website. I am hoping someone will consider adding the website, robertrubin.com, to the infobox and External links section.
For the book, I suggest adding the following sentence to the Other work section, immediately after the mention of his first book, in the same paragraph:
Rubin's second book, The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World, was published in May 2023. In it, he writes about his approach to "probabilistic thinking", or understanding that every decision carries risk.[1] References
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Please let me know if there any questions. As always, I won't make any changes myself due to my conflict of interest. WWB Too (Talk · COI) 20:52, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
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Hello again, I've got a request to slightly expand on the Policy views section and change the order a bit to keep similar topics together.
To start, I'd like to suggest a new subheading within Policy views called Climate change, covering Rubin's views on the topic. There is already a fair bit of content in the section about this, more than any other policy area. Along with this change, I suggest moving the sentence about Brexit up prior to this subheading. I think that makes the separation between the topics clear.
I also have some suggestions for this new Climate change section: I recommend trimming some content related to the risk committee and scaling back the name-dropping, while refocusing it on Mr. Rubin's views, in keeping with the purpose of the overall section. Lastly, I'd suggest adding a few sentences about the Risky Business Project, another of Mr. Rubin's efforts related to climate change. As Spencer has suggested in the past, I've put these more complex changes into a table below to help make these changes more easily understood.
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In January 2014, Secretary Rubin joined former Senator Olympia Snowe, former Education Secretary Donna Shalala, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Housing and Urban Affairs Secretary Henry Cisneros, Gregory Page the Chair of Cargill, and Al Sommer, the Dean Emeritus of the Bloomberg School of Public Health as members of the U.S. Climate Risk Committee. They oversaw the development of an analysis of the economic risks of climate change in the United States that was published on June 24, 2014. | Among Rubin's policy interests is climate change.[1] In 2014, Rubin served as a member of the U.S. Climate Risk Committee, which oversaw the development of an analysis of the economic risks of climate change in the United States.[2] | I think this adds a nice lead-in to the section and makes it far more concise without losing the key information related to Mr. Rubin. |
In an address at the Climate Leadership Conference on March 4, 2015, Mr. Rubin spoke about the economic effects of climate change and the costs of inaction. Calling climate change "the existential threat of our age," he called for the adoption of three proposals – revising estimates of the Gross Domestic Product to reflect climate change externalities, disclosure to investors by companies of the costs of carbon they emit that they might be required to absorb, and including in the U.S. government's fiscal projections the future costs of dealing with climate change – to help catalyze a more active response to climate change risks. He first outlined the proposals in a Washington Post op-ed column titled "How Ignoring Climate Change Could Sink the U.S. Economy." | In an address at the Climate Leadership Conference on March 4, 2015, Rubin spoke about the economic effects of climate change and the costs of inaction.[3] Calling climate change "the existential threat of our age," he called for the adoption of three proposals—revising estimates of the gross domestic product to reflect climate change externalities, disclosure to investors by companies of the costs of carbon they emit that they might be required to absorb, and including in the U.S. government's fiscal projections the future costs of dealing with climate change—to help catalyze a more active response to climate change risks. He first outlined these proposals in a Washington Post op-ed column titled "How Ignoring Climate Change Could Sink the U.S. Economy."[4] | This is virtually identical to the current live content, only cleaning up some spelling and formatting issues, and adding two wikilinks. Though difficult to show in this format, I would also suggest that the content in this row and the prior row all be part of the same paragraph. |
(no existing text) | In 2016, former Treasury secretaries Rubin, Henry Paulson, and George Shultz, members of the climate research group the Risky Business Project, penned a letter to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, urging regulators to manage financial disclosures regarding climate change.[5] | I think this helps further expand upon Mr. Rubin's efforts related to climate change, and is especially noteworthy for the collaboration among Treasury secretaries of different political parties. |
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For convenience, I've put the markup below for the proposed Climate change section (not including the subhead) in this box:
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Among Rubin's policy interests is [[climate change]].<ref name="WSJ-Demos-180608"/> In 2014, Rubin served as a member of the U.S. Climate Risk Committee, which oversaw the development of an analysis of the economic risks of [[climate change in the United States]].<ref>((cite web |last1=Larsen |first1=Kate |last2=Delgado |first2=Michael |last3=Mohan |first3=Shashank |last4=Houser |first4=Trevor |title=American Climate Prospectus: Economic Risks in the United States |url=https://rhg.com/research/american-climate-prospectus-economic-risks-in-the-united-states/ |website=Rhodium Group |date=June 24, 2014 |access-date=February 6, 2023))</ref> In an address at the Climate Leadership Conference on March 4, 2015, Rubin spoke about the [[economic impacts of climate change|economic effects of climate change]] and the costs of inaction.<ref>((cite web |title=Robert Rubin: Speech at the Climate Leadership Conference |url=http://riskybusiness.org/blog/robert-rubin-climate-leadership-conference-speech |website=Risky Business |access-date=February 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150907091834/http://riskybusiness.org/blog/robert-rubin-climate-leadership-conference-speech |archive-date=September 7, 2015 |date=March 4, 2015 |url-status=dead))</ref> Calling climate change "the existential threat of our age," he called for the adoption of three proposals—revising estimates of the [[gross domestic product]] to reflect climate change externalities, disclosure to investors by companies of the costs of carbon they emit that they might be required to absorb, and including in the U.S. government's fiscal projections the future costs of dealing with climate change—to help catalyze a more active response to climate change risks. He first outlined these proposals in a ''Washington Post'' op-ed column titled "How Ignoring Climate Change Could Sink the U.S. Economy."<ref>((cite news |last1=Rubin |first1=Robert |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-rubin-how-ignoring-climate-change-could-sink-the-us-economy/2014/07/24/b7b4c00c-0df6-11e4-8341-b8072b1e7348_story.html |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=July 24, 2014 |access-date=October 10, 2015 |title=How Ignoring Climate Change Could Sink the U.S. Economy))</ref>
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Please let me know what you think. As always, I'm open to further discussion on these suggested changes and won't make them myself due to my conflict of interest. Any feedback is appreciated. WWB Too (Talk · COI) 16:06, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
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Hello again, I have a small request not pertaining to the article text, but it use of images. For an article of this length, there are not many. One that would be appropriate is File:Portrait of Robert Rubin.jpg. I think it would be a good addition to the Secretary of the Treasury section since it is from his time in that role. Only thing is, this will place it rather close to the existing 1999 photo, so I'd recommend moving that one down to the Balanced budget agreement section. Given my financial COI, I think it best that I not make any edits to the page. My hope is that another editor will review the request and, if they agree, implement these changes. Thanks, WWB Too (Talk · COI) 12:24, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
Edit request implemented Spintendo 20:33, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
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The current URL for robertrubin.com in the infobox is given as HTTP, not HTTPS, which I now realize is the preferred protocol. One way to do this (which I think would also be good Wikimedia hygiene) is replacing the existing URL with ((URL | ((Wikidata|property|Q370316|P856)) )). Alternatively, it might just be easier to change HTTP to HTTPS. Also, his website is not currently listed under External links, so I'd appreciate it if it could be added there as well. Given my financial COI, I'll refrain from making any direct edits, and I'm hopeful another editor will take up these suggestions. WWB Too (Talk · COI) 18:06, 9 August 2023 (UTC)
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Hello again to all who watch this page; I have some requests for some minor updates to the article.
First, Mr. Rubin's book The Yellow Pad was included on Bloomberg's "Best Books of 2023" list. I think that is noteworthy enough for inclusion in the Books section, such as a new final sentence like:
Second, I was hoping to update some "as of" dates to reflect Mr. Rubin's continuing activities, both in the introduction and in the Other work section. Specifically, updating the latest year Mr. Rubin has been active with the Hamilton Project, Council on Foreign Relations, and Centerview Partners to 2024. I must note, there is no third-party sourcing saying he is still doing these things in 2024, but my thinking is this: the "as of" date for the Hamilton Project is already supported in part by a citation to the organization's website, so I believe this could work for the other two and, by updating the access date for Hamilton Project, perhaps then we could update the "as of" year? Like so:
And then with those updates made, this would also allow an update to the last sentence of the introduction, changing "As of 2022" to "As of 2024".
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N.B. The WSJ source is already in the article, I just included the full citation here for visibility.
@Spencer: @Graywalls: @Go4thProsper: you have all fairly evaluated my edit requests here previously. Would one of you be able to take a look at this? WWB Too (Talk · COI) 16:04, 26 January 2024 (UTC)