Florida Man Crashes Into Kayak Because He Was Distracted by Selfie Stick http://t.co/s8raNH88BO pic.twitter.com/rXKMtvdu4T
— Florida Man (@_FloridaMan) September 14, 2015
Darwin Awards – selfie-stick category
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics Tags: Darwin awards
The Economics of Red State vs. Blue State Carbon Politics
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, climate change, constitutional political economy, economics of climate change, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, transport economics, urban economics
1. My JPAM 2000 paper documents that suburbanites drive more and consume more electricity than urban residents.
2. My 2011 JUE paper documents that center city liberal resident NIMBY zoning regulation has deflected more development to the suburbs where people live a high carbon life (see paper #1 above) and then oppose carbon pricing.
3. My co-authored 2013 JPUBE paper documents that energy intensive manufacturing industries seek out cheap electricity price areas. Whether U.S carbon pricing and the resulting higher electricity prices would nudge them to move oversees remains an open question.
4. My co-authored 2012 EER paper documents that more educated people are more likely to have installed solar panels and to go off the grid and thus not pay higher electricity prices.
5. My 2013 EI paper documents that Congress Representatives oppose carbon mitigation regulation when they are conservative, their district is poorer and their district is high carbon. Nancy Pelosi and Tom Steyer are in liberal, rich, low carbon San Francisco. There, it is easy to comply with carbon regulation. They will pay few new costs for such low carbon regulation.
6. My co-authored 2015 JAERE paper documents that even in California and within counties that suburbanites vote against low carbon regulation relative to center city residents. Since we control for the fact that liberals live in center cities, this 3rd variable does not explain the urban form/voting correlation.
7. In my co-authored 2015 JUE paper we document that U.S protectionism through the Buy America Act has hindered the improvement of our bus fleet as a green technology.
Source: Environmental and Urban Economics: The Economics of Red State vs. Blue State Carbon Politics
Creative destruction in telegraph messages
25 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture Tags: Australia, creative destruction
#OTD 21 Oct 1872 a UK – Australia telegraph service opened from London to Darwin, 20 hours to transmit a message! https://t.co/cgnbhLzAuw—
BT Archives (@BTArchives) October 21, 2015
The essence of anthropology
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles, personnel economics Tags: academic bias, anthropology, Noble Savage, technological diffusion, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
When tea houses were dens of inequity
23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation Tags: meddlesome preferences, nanny state
Each time has its own fear of the new.
18th century warning from England(!) regarding tea bit.ly/1K8zect http://t.co/DAJLJBQdfS—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) September 09, 2015
That’s why there’s a husband’s chair in every quality women’s shop
19 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, economics of media and culture, television Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, marriage and divorce, search and matching, The battle of the sexes, The Simpsons
Behind on my homeopathic blogging
18 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of information, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, health economics Tags: consumer fraud, homeopathy, quackery, Quacks
Creative destruction in newspapers
17 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness
Creative destruction in Twitter
17 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, Twitter
2015 has not been a particularly good year for Twitter. Will share prices go further down? econ.st/1PfOAmW http://t.co/ME1RbnlmNE—
The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 14, 2015
Our interactive chart explains why Twitter remains a minnow in the tech industry econ.st/1LkhVqi http://t.co/sCQWStMEC3—
The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 14, 2015
Oppressed by randomness
16 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
Twitter and the fraying of civilisation
16 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: economics of language, network goods, Twitter
The paleo diet explained
15 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture Tags: dietary fads, food snobs
Cell phones are conquering Africa
14 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economics of media and culture, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: Africa, cell phones, technology diffusion
Africa is more connected than ever, with a record 84 cell phone subscriptions per 100 people. buff.ly/1L4Daw8 http://t.co/GkqcKAUPmW—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) October 06, 2015
Why are we still calling them phones?
14 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, entrepreneurship Tags: creative destruction, smart phones
Why are we still calling them phones? qz.com/509442 http://t.co/mIqCVnsyrY—
Quartz (@qz) September 26, 2015
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