Michael Munger explains at AIER (American Institute for Economic Research) in his article Green Energy is the Modern “Broken Window”. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images.
John Goodell studied literature at Berkeley, then got an M.F.A. at Columbia. He has edited Zyzzyva, a literary magazine in San Francisco, and been a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Pretty impressive.
None of that qualifies him as a climate scientist or economist. So it’s surprising that web searches yield hundreds of solemn, even pious, invocations of Goodell’s economic wisdom:
“In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency generate far more jobs than oil and coal.”
I have not been able to find a source; the quote itself has become self-recommending, using authority by reference: “studies show…” My good friend Russ Roberts often inveighs against the “studies show” formulation, but I think we…
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