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Rent Seeking, Corruption and Madness

July 7, 2011 by Michael Tobis
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I think that anyone defending climate science occasionally runs into an economist type who accuses those of us who would like to limit CO2 emissions of "rent seeking". There is more than a whiff of contempt usually associated, which is peculiar, because the contempt tends to come from someone who (like most people) would not hesitate to... [read more]

Crude oil prices in 2008: Was the spike a bubble?

March 31, 2010 by Michael Giberson
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In the physical world, spikes and bubbles are quite different things that don’t generally get mistaken for one another.  Curiously, in economic metaphor, the same phenomena can be called a spike and a bubble.  Argument among economists continues on the issue of whether the oil price spike in 2008 was or wasn’t a bubble. A few... [read more]

Scientists and economists call on Senate

March 11, 2010 by Lou Grinzo
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Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists and Economists Call on Senate to Address Climate Change Now: Nobel Prize-winning economists and scientists will deliver a letter to the U.S. Senate today, urging lawmakers to require immediate cuts in global warming emissions. The letter was signed by more than 2,000 prominent U.S. economists and climate... [read more]

Climate policy and jobs: What economists know

February 18, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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This repost comes from economists at E3 Network: Eban Goodstein, Kristen Sheeran, Director, Peter Dorman, Jonathan Isham, and John Laitner. I. Addressing Climate Change Can Lead to Net Job Growth in the United States Many economists believe that due to the global downturn, the US will experience high rates of unemployment (>6%) for... [read more]

Faith-based economics

February 3, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Did the stimulus package jump-start the economy? Will climate regulation create jobs? Are clean energy subsidies an efficient way to curb pollution? Is health-care spending worth it? And how worried, really, should we be about budget deficits? Those are questions for economists. With those issues in the news, economists are in demand.... [read more]

Marginal Revolution: The "health care betrayal" and Waxman-Markey

January 22, 2010 by John Whitehead
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If there's one lesson from the health care debacle, it is that Waxman-Markey was and is a dead end.  Many of us objected to the bill on the grounds that it supports a lot of phony offsets for twenty years, imposes lots of costs and regulation in the meantime, and then never really does much to help climate change, given the... [read more]

Dept. of Energy: Wind Farms Have No Impact on Property Values

December 3, 2009 by Tim Hurst
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A new study by the Department of Energy found that wind farms have no impact on property values. Central leg in the NIMBY platform takes a hit as Department of Energy study shows property values unaffected by presence of commercial wind farms. Economists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) have... [read more]

"Survey of 144 top economists finds strong consensus for climate action"

November 5, 2009 by John Whitehead
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From the inbox comes evidence that "elite economic experts" (smacks of elitism) consider global warming a problem and think incentives might matter:Most expert economists agree: reducing our greenhouse gas emissions can help avoid a major economic malfunction. Those are the findings of a survey conducted by the Institute for Policy... [read more]

It's the ecosystem, stupid

September 23, 2009 by Big Gav
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Ross Gittens has an article in the Age on the relationship between the economy and the environment (taking a few swipes at PM Rudd's pretend climate policy along the way), and noting glumly recent reports on our large projected population increase - It's the ecosystem, stupid.Everyone (rightly) condemns economists for their failure to... [read more]

Economists versus Environmentalists

April 27, 2009 by Tim Haab
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David Zetland, Aguanomist, yesterday posted a great exchange between himself and environmentalist/water advocate Dorothy Green that provides a perfect illustration of the frequent disjoint between economics and environmentalism, and the struggle economists face in convincing others that correct market outcomes indeed can... [read more]