Is Climate Change Our Biggest Problem?
06 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, global warming
Oil prices were really low in the 90s
04 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: cartel theory, Oil prices, OPEC
How to deal with science denialists
03 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, health economics Tags: antiscience left, climate alarmism, growth of knowledge, philosophy of science, quackery, Quacks
Most climate alarmists do not separate the policy issues, the economic issues, from the science of global warming as suggested in this flowchart. Specifically, they do not ask what is the economic and social cost of global warming.
Europe at night
26 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
Peak coal was long ago
25 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics Tags: coal prices, Oil prices, peak oil
Are we there yet on solar power? @GarethMP @GreenpeaceNZ @NZGreens
24 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, green rent seeking, rational irrationality, solar energy, solar power
Source: History of Solar Power – IER.
Think Again: The Green Economy @janlogie @GarethMP
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, resource economics Tags: climate alarmism, green economy, green rent seeking
Source: Matthew Kahn (2009) Think Again: The Green Economy | Foreign Policy
The distributional impact of alternative energy incentives
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, fiscal policy, politics - USA, public economics, rentseeking
@RusselNorman Why 1.3 billion people without access to electricity can’t afford to divest from fossil fuels
20 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: fossil fuel disinvestment, Fossil Fuels, rational irrationality
Renewable energy is the biggest air pollution killer out there
18 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics
Source: World Health Organisation.
Why @NZGreens @GreenpeaceNZ are enemies of workers & poor
15 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic growth, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, labour economics, macroeconomics, politics - New Zealand Tags: expressive voting, Greenpeace, Leftover Left, New Zealand Greens, rational irrationality, Twitter left
% billionaires who made their money through political connections or resource industries
13 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, poverty and inequality, privatisation, rentseeking, resource economics
The 1826 Billionaires in the Forbes 2015 list are classified as rich through political connections if they made their money through past political positions, close relatives or friends in government, or questionable licenses, privatisations or resource extraction industries.
All privatizations were included in the politically-connected/resource-related category despite my data source acknowledging the possibility that the new owners may have transformed the company. Resource billionaires were all deemed to be lucky or cronies by my data source rather than diligent as some most certainly were. This is something of a slur by my data source given the industriousness of some resource billionaires some of whom were even geologists.
Political cronyism is a path to billionaire wealth mainly in the developing countries. Less than 10% of Chinese billionaires made their money through political connections, which is surprising.
If you love nature, stay away from it – Ed Glaeser
09 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics
It is hard to imagine any merchant who harmed the environment as much as Henry David Thoreau…
We are a destructive species, and if you love nature, stay away from it. The best means of protecting the environment is to live in the heart of a city.
Ed Glaeser
Source: If you love nature, move to the city – The Boston Globe.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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