Tragedy of the Commons R.I.P.? Not quite.
Congratulating Elinor Ostrom for winning the Nobel Prize is terrific, but please don't get carried away like Jay Walljasper, who writes Tragedy of the Commons, [...]
I agree with George Will!
Not about everything, of course, but we do both agree that mandatory recycling laws are mostly pointless (so much for my chances of ever being [...]
A bit more on Superfreakonomics
We've all spent more than enough time on this, but since my previous posts are getting some play (e.g., from Greg Mankiw) I'm going to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Greg Mankiw on carbon
Read it here. Also interesting is Steven Landsburg's response here.
The WSJ is still not admitting that we have a climate problem.
From a June 26 editorial: The reality is that cost estimates for climate legislation are as unreliable as the models predicting climate change.