Betty and Ukraine
From my latest comedy newsletter: *** Hello economics comedy fans: In times of grief both public and personal—the pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the end-of-life [...]
Thoughts on Unsettled by Steven Koonin
A good friend and mentor---someone who has devoted considerable time and money to the cause of climate action---encouraged me to read the book Steven Koonin [...]
2022 update on my global warming “traffic light” bet with Bryan Caplan and Alex Tabarrok
Back in 2014 I made a global warming bet with fellow economists Bryan Caplan and Alex Tabarrok about global temperatures over the following 15 years [...]
Review of Cullenward and Victor’s book Making Climate Policy Work
Is putting a price on carbon hard? Oh yes. And I speak from experience: I was the founder and co-chair of the I-732 revenue-neutral carbon tax [...]
2021 update on my global warming “traffic light” bet with Bryan Caplan and Alex Tabarrok
Back in 2014 I made a global warming bet with fellow economists Bryan Caplan and Alex Tabarrok about global temperatures over the following 15 years [...]
Grading Economics Textbooks on Climate Change – 2020 Update
Introduction This is the fifth such review I’ve been involved in and it is almost certainly the last review I’ll be doing, for the simple reason that the [...]
Readings about I-732 and carbon taxes
Better late that never, here are some key readings and such about the I-732 carbon tax ballot measure campaign in Washington State in 2016, plus [...]
My talk on state-level carbon taxes
Here’s the PPT slides from a one-hour talk I gave on state-level carbon taxes at the University of Michigan on Wednesday March 11 2020. (The rest of [...]
2020 update on my global warming “traffic light” bet with Bryan Caplan and Alex Tabarrok
Back in 2014 I made a global warming bet with fellow economists Bryan Caplan and Alex Tabarrok about global temperatures over the following 15 years [...]