Economy
Have y’all seen the Partha Dasgutha video from the @nytimes yet?
Here is the link and story: Partha Dasgupta is a Cambridge University economist who in 2021 prepared a more than...
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Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis: “Benefit-Cost Analysis for Beginners” workshop
From the inbox: Location: Via ZoomPlease note: All workshops will be recorded. Registrants will have access to the recordings. Dates and...
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Bad Graph Interpretation of the Day: Well, if I had to guess, I would say bad math happened.
Saw this tweet this morning with 2.3M views: Just eyeballing it, from 1995-2000, boy suicide rates fell from about 11 to...
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Adaptation to climate change at Northwestern North Carolina ski resorts
From the local paper (Changing climates means changing ski season): Snowfall in the High Country is around 25 percent less...
Read moreIf the WIllow Project is approved and fewer people know about it, are the environmental costs reduced?
One of the big problems of nonmarket valuation of projects that impact the environment is that the benefits and costs...
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Some bad economics at the Department of Energy
From E&E News (DOE: Major LNG project ‘would not increase’ CO2) from June 2022: A proposed liquefied natural gas project...
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Running the LA marathon is exhausting…
...I know because I watched my second oldest daughter run it on Sunday and she looked really tired at the...
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Last week I began a research project for @FoothillsOfNC
On the Monday of spring break I drove to Morganton, NC and visited Oak Hill Community Park and Forest: Located...
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Today’s example of how the critics of environmental regulations ignore the benefits: Clean Neighbor Rule
From the NYTimes (E.P.A. Tells Dozens of States to Clean Up Their Smokestacks): The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a...
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Our article in the Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy’s “sizing up survey samples” symposium (?) is published online
This paper resulted from the BP/Deepwater Horizon damage assessment conducted for the state of Florida (Huffaker, Clouwer and Larkin 2012)....
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