More Superfreakonomics: emails from Steven Levitt
[Update Oct 19: My (concluding?) thoughts here.] This may not be terribly interesting, but here is an email correspondence I had with Steven Levitt this [...]
Climate change in Superfreakonomics
Update Oct 18 11:07am PST: My email exchange with Steven Levitt is here. Update Oct 19: My (concluding?) thoughts here. Joe Romm at climateprogress.org posts [...]
An open letter to Austan Goolsbee (Oct 8 2009)
Dear Austan: You might think that it was quite a shock for me--"the world's first and only stand-up economist"--to find a Wall Street Journal blog [...]
Carbon cap: Be careful what you wish for
Much of the discussion in the environmental community about the climate strategy known as “cap-and-trade” centers on the fact that this strategy sets a hard [...]
The anthropology of peak oil
Ari Rubenstein has a hilarious (and thought-provoking) take on participants in the Peak Oil debate, with a "spectrum... from total denial..." Abiotic Oilers: Related to [...]
Economics sit-com
In early 2009 a fellow named Sultan organized a contest for a TV show about economists. (Here were the rules, here were the entries, and [...]
Interesting articles
West Coast fishermen embark on new wave of fishing, including discussion of ITQs. Chicha! (It's a traditional Latin American beer---I had it in Ecuador---where the [...]
A must-read for hippies
Hippies (and everyone else) should read Elizabeth Kolbert's "Green like me" in the New Yorker. The author of a great book on climate change called [...]
Fuchs on health care, the public option, and adverse selection
A great overview of the issues, as noted by Richard Thaler.
Remembering the Google IPO
A neat post about the 5th anniversary of Google's IPO (Initial Public Offering), which used an auction mechanism to sell shares. The original price of [...]