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Op-ed: Legislature must invest to keep Washington state competitive. By Eric Schinfeld and Sam Kaplan Officials contemplating raising fuel taxes, fees for roads, Metro Beate Gordon, Long-Unsung Heroine of Japanese Women’s Rights, Dies at 89 Poll: 56 percent back carbon tax to help slash deficit The Market and Mother Nature By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN James [...]
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A Place Comfortable With Boeing, Anarchists and ‘Frasier’: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle Carbon Taxes Make Ireland Even Greener. See also California Law Tests Company Responses to Carbon Costs. And Scientists Report Faster Warming in Antarctica. And What Could Disappear (interactive graphics of sea level rise). And A Big, and Risky, Energy [...]
Why connect a carbon tax to transportation infrastructure maintenance?
First, transportation accounts for about 50% of fossil fuel CO2 in Washington State; so it makes sense to direct 50% of carbon tax revenue to transportation. For a carbon tax of $30 per tonne CO2, that means about $1.15 billion per year, which sounds like a lot but in fact is just about perfect because… [...]
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Marriage on the Ballot: The measure in Maine probably has the best chance of winning. Three years ago, Maine voters rejected a marriage-equality bill that had been approved by the State Legislature. But, instead of giving up, supporters of the freedom to marry went right back to knocking on doors, raising money, honing their arguments [...]
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A Possibly Fatal Mistake (Kristof on health care) The Cancer Lobby (also by Kristof, about industry lobbying). See also With Affirmative Action, India’s Rich Gain School Slots Meant for Poor Hidden in a Nook, Mastery in Plain Sight: Restaurant Review: Ichimura at Brushstroke in TriBeCa (NYC) [Tomato] Ammunition for a Trade War Between U.S. and [...]
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Anger Rolls Across Pakistani City in Aftermath of Factory Fire (for Cartoon Macro) Input-Output modeling Taxes Show One Way to Save Fuel Spreading the Word (and Pictures) on ‘Real’ Sex With Medicaid, Long-Term Care of Elderly Looms as a Rising Cost For Farms in the West, Oil Wells Are Thirsty Rivals Project Aims to Harness [...]
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Carbon Taxes Cut Debt, Cool Planet By the Bloomberg Editors. See also Carbon Tax Silence, Overtaken by Events, By ROBERT H. FRANK. And Study Finds More of Earth Is Hotter and Says Global Warming Is at Work. And What Cornfields Show, Data Now Confirm: July Set Mark as U.S.’s Hottest Month. And EPA’s Global Emissions [...]
Me with Paul Krugman (2012 AEA Humor Session)
From the 2012 AEA Humor Session, with Avichai Snir, Paul Krugman, and (AEA President) Orley Ashenfelter.
Me with Mort Sahl and Robin Williams
From the show at the 142 Throckmorton Theater in Mill Valley (CA) on August 7 2012. Mort Sahl didn’t do any time, but Robin Williams headlined!
Cartoon econ books coming in Spanish!
Debate, a division of Random House Mondadori, has agreed to translate Cartoon Micro and Macro into Spanish! Estoy muy feliz!
