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Agriculture and Climate Change

Saturday, November 15, 2008

I’m trying to put together a research proposal on the economic effects of climate change on agriculture. Here are some of the papers I’ve been looking at: Schlenker and Roberts, and Deschenes and Greenstone (the second paper was published in the AER in 2007, but the link I’ve provided is to a [...]

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The Power of the Market

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

An Op-Ed in the New York Times describes how the profit motive can be used to save endangered tigers.  This idea is well-known among economists, but badly in need of publicity. 
If activists and policy-makers can learn to work with markets rather than against them, we’ll have a bright future indeed.

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Sounds Familiar

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

A very good editorial in today’s Washington Post argues that it’s better for government to tax carbon than directly fund research into alternative fuels:
Investing in new technologies, about which Mr. Bush boasted, is worthy. But such investment is more likely to pay off if government creates incentives and then lets the market choose the most promising technologies; Mr. Bush [...]

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