From @PaulKrugman’s review of Nordhaus’ Climate Casino @jamespeshaw @Greenpeacenz

17 Oct 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags:

Going for the 2°C (a Stern approach) could be twice as costly ($67.3tr) as doing nothing

13 Oct 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags:

Jason Brennan on why capitalism is a better utopia than socialism

12 Oct 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, unions Tags: ,

William Nordhaus: The Economics of Climate Change

09 Oct 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, Public Choice

These US estimates are still small @jamespeshaw @mfe_news; mostly from loss of life which is the easiest to fix by mitigation and adaptation

08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand

From S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369  Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp

Even runaway climate change of 6 to 8°C reduces GDP by by 2100! less than 10%

US has county level estimates but @jamespeshaw can’t estimate cost of global warming for NZ! @mfe_news says it is too hard!!

08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand

S. Hsiang el al., “Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States,” Science (2017). science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi … 1126/science.aal4369  Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-06-climate-economy-inequality.html#jCp

Energy efficiency doesn’t actually pay

23 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: ,

David Friedman at Libertopia 2010

21 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, David Friedman, economics of crime, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, law and economics, property rights Tags:

Down and out in America

15 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

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Socialism in a nutshell

12 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

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The Case for the Norway Option

08 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, international economics Tags:

Thomas Piketty finally made a positive contribution to public policy debates

06 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, income redistribution, poverty and inequality, Public Choice

From http://piketty.pse.ens.fr/files/Piketty2018.pdf

But @jamespeshaw does know how little the cost of #globalwarming is to #NewZealand

06 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand

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The left would have us believe everything is getting worse and worse

06 Sep 2018 Leave a comment

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An Introduction to Externalities

30 Aug 2018 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of information, economics of regulation

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