- Turbines Too Loud for You? Here, Take $5,000. A great application of the Coase Theorem.
- America’s climate policy: Capped: “The Senate’s retreat from cap and trade might, one day, lead to a carbon tax. For now it leaves a dreadful mess… Optimists can see a bright side. Cap and trade was sold as the easiest way of limiting emissions: pragmatic, politically acceptable, offering hard caps on emissions, which greens want, and the possibility of free carbon credits, which companies want. But it is not the only way. And the main alternative, a carbon tax, is in many ways preferable… Now that cap and trade has proved unacceptable, expect a swing back towards carbon taxes in policy circles. During a wholesale revision of the tax code they might yet have their day. But expect, too, that the country’s emissions will come down only slowly; and that the world’s will continue to rise.
- Plagiarism Lines Blur for Students in Digital Age. For ENVIR 100.
- A Young Republican With a Sweeping Agenda. Paul Ryan.
- Boy or Girl? The Answer May Depend on Mom’s Eating Habits. Evolutionary game theory.
- Why Is Deflation Bad? By Paul Krugman.
- Tracing Oil Reserves to Their Tiny Origins. For ENVIR 100.
- Why 70 Economists Urge BC Carbon Tax
- The Case for $320,000 Kindergarten Teachers.
- Congress Rethinks Its Ban on Internet Gambling
- John Callahan, Cartoonist, Dies at 59: “John Callahan, a quadriplegic, alcoholic cartoonist whose work in newspapers and magazines made irreverent, impolitic sport of both people with disabilities and diseases and those who would pity and condescend to them, died Saturday in Portland, Ore. He was 59 and lived in Portland.”
- The Scales Fall: Is there any hope for our overfished oceans? By Elizabeth Kolbert, about the tragedy of the commons.
- More Workers Face Pay Cuts, Not Furloughs. For macro book.
- Beware of Scorched-Earth Strategies in Climate Debates. By Robert Stavins.
- Recycling Is Garbage
- State and EPA climate action become key as Senate gives up
- A Harvard professor uses economics to save lives, assign doctors and get kids into the right high school. About Alvin Roth.
- The Right and the Climate. A thought-provoking article by Ross Douthat.
- U.S. may face deflation, a problem Japan understands too well
- Joe Romm: The failed presidency of Barack Obama. After Democrats pull plug on climate bill. See also Overcome by Heat and Inertia.
- Stephen H. Schneider, Climatologist, Is Dead at 65
- Recession humor enjoys global boom. Includes a quote from yours truly.
- The Trilemma of International Finance. For macro book.
- Cute picture of me and Everett.
- Economics Made Fun in the Face of the Crisis. A conference in the Netherlands. I was invited but can’t make it.
- Bad science: Global-warming deniers are a liability to the conservative cause
- David Blackwell, Scholar of Probability, Dies at 91: “David Blackwell, a statistician and mathematician who wrote groundbreaking papers on probability and game theory and was the first black scholar to be admitted to the National Academy of Sciences, died July 8 in Berkeley, Calif. “
- Bangladesh, With Low Pay, Moves In on China
- If Mars Attacks… Do we have an alien-contact contingency plan?
- BC Carbon Tax Shift: Not as Good as it Used To Be?
- Israel Grows Uneasy Over Reliance on Migrant Labor
- A Soft Spot for Circuitry: Robot pets!
- Closing an Old Polluter May Not Ease Emissions
- China Fears Consumer Impact on Global Warming: “even as Beijing imposes the world’s most rigorous national energy campaign, the effort is being overwhelmed by the billionfold demands of Chinese consumers.”
- They Did Their Homework (800 Years of It): Rogoff and Reinhart
- Illinois Stops Paying Its Bills, but Can’t Stop Digging Hole
- Actually, Money Can Make You Happy. For GDP chapter of macro book.
- Rammellzee, Hip-Hop and Graffiti Pioneer, Dies at 49: “He legally changed his name to Rammellzee — which he described as not a name but a mathematical equation — when he was younger, Mr. Ahearn said. As to the name he was born with, Mr. Ahearn said that he knew it but would keep it to himself, as his friend would have wanted. Ms. Zagari Rammellzee likewise declined to reveal it: “It is not to be told. That is forbidden.””
- Britain Curbing Airport Growth to Aid Climate
- Black Landowners Fight to Reclaim Georgia Home. For ENVIR 100
- Once Elected, Palin Hired Friends and Lashed Foes: “[W]hen there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, [Palin] appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.”
- Economies in Latin America Race Ahead
- When Capitalism Meets Cannabis (in Colorado)
- To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn Their Trickery
- Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity: Final Report on an Economic Study of Greenhouse Gas Targets and Policies for Canada. Meeting climate targets is hard. See also Some more thoughts on a carbon tax: “When the good folk at Cambridge Econometrics fed this requirement [a 34% cut below 1990 by 2020] into their model, it began spitting out prices of many hundreds of pounds per ton, far beyond anything that could be seen as politically plausible by even the most starry-eyed environmentalist. Indeed, the prices were so high that they were pushing up against the limits of the model, and any numbers generated would have to be taken with a big dollop of salt.”
- Me in Handelsblatt again!
- Arid Australia Sips Seawater, but at a Cost
- David Obey: I Leave More Discontented Than I Started
- With a Bow Tie and a Glove, the No. 1 Giant Relishes His Seat: Bill Neukom, formerly of Microsoft, now owner of the SF Giants.
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