On the inefficiency of fuel efficiency standards
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics Tags: fuel efficiency standards, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences
If Someone Replaced Your Car with a Prius, Would You Drive More?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, industrial organisation Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences
Settled science part 1: Is science ever actually settled?
17 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, history of economic thought Tags: climate alarmism, conjecture and ref patient, global warming, methodology of economics, philosophy of science, philosophy of social sciences
We are constantly told that “everyone has a right to their opinion” and “there are two sides to every story.” Our entire news system is predicated on the notion that we need to give fair time to both sides of every situation. The problem with this type of thinking is that it leads to the misconception that both sides are equally valid, or, at the very least, that there must be some truth to both sides, but in many cases, only one side has any merit. In other words, it’s often not opinion #1 vs. opinion #2, rather, it is fact vs. fiction. One “side” is reality, while the other “side” is a fairy tail. For example, if you want to say that the island of Jamaica is being carried around on the back of giant sea turtle, that’s not your opinion, you’re just wrong. There wouldn’t be two legitimate…
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The Battle Over Global Warming Is All in Your Head
16 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of information, economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism, doomsday prophecies, global warming, political psychology
Why are Australian power prices so high?
15 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: carbon pricing, climate alarmism, power prices, solao energy, solar power, wind power
The fracking revolution
14 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, politics - USA Tags: creative destruction, fracking
Analysing environmental benefits from driving electric vehicles
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: coal power, electric cars, green rent seeking, hydroelectric power, nuclear energy, nuclear power, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge, unintended consequences
- The benefit is large and positive in many places in the west because the western electricity grid is relatively clean – primarily a mix of hydro, nuclear, and natural gas.
- The benefit is large and negative in many places in the east because the eastern electricity grid primarily relies more heavily on coal and natural gas.
via Economist’s View.
@NZGreens and co. must face an inconvenient truth about global poverty
09 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles, politics - New Zealand Tags: expressive voting, extreme poverty, global poverty, rational irrationality, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
What difference did the Kyoto protocol make and that’s before you consider 3rd World development
04 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth miracles, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: climate alarmism clock, climate treaties, expressive voting, free-riders, Kyoto Protocol, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Turbine country versus fracking country
31 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, law and economics, property rights Tags: Big Wind, cracking, green hypocrisy, visual pollution, wind power
It’s a worry when James Hansen is talking sense on energy policy
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: Big Solar, green rent seeking, James Hansen, renewable energy, solar energy, solar power
James Hansen just totally destroyed Hillary Clinton's climate plan. goo.gl/N8n9Cz http://t.co/ef8bElDBBn—
Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) July 29, 2015
Matt Ridley on How Fossil Fuels are Greening the Planet
26 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics Tags: Fossil Fuels, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
The essence of the antiscience Left
26 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, health economics Tags: anti-GMOs movement, anti-vaccination movement, antimarket bias, antiscience left, cranks, GMOs, Leftover Left, precautionary principle, quackery
Murray Rothbard on the falling popularity of Pope Francis
25 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, economics of religion, energy economics, environmental economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, international economics, Murray Rothbard, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, Catholic social thought, climate alarmism, expressive voting, global warming, makework bias, Pope Francis, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, voter demographics
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