Richard Tol argues that – cost wise – emission reduction can be modest
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, econometerics, economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: carbon tax, carbon trading
The great cost of NIMBYism
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, econometerics, economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA, urban economics Tags: housing affordability, land supply, zoning
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The High Cost of Good Intentions with John F. Cogan: Perspectives on Policy
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in economic history, entrepreneurship, financial economics, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: taxation and labour supply
Stop Three Waters
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in economics of bureaucracy, industrial organisation, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice, theory of the firm
Seinfeld – Kramer cannot eat a sandwich without Dijon mustard
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Europe’s Epic Renewable Energy Fail Makes Transition to Nuclear Power Truly Inevitable
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The fastest way to get people thinking about electricity, is to deprive them of it. Europe’s power pricing and supply calamity has sharpened thinking and provided a golden opportunity for engineers and free-market economists to wrest back control from ideologues and renewable energy rent-seekers.
Until the Big Calm hit Western Europe last month – causing wind power output to plummet across the continent and the UK – all the talk was about a purportedly ‘inevitable transition’ to an all wind and sun powered future.
Well, things aren’t looking so ‘inevitable’ for wind and solar, after all. Grid managers have been left scrambling for what little gas might be available to fuel open cycle gas turbines; and recently mothballed coal-fired power plants are being desperately pressed back into action, both in Germany, and in the UK.
Only those countries with substantial nuclear power generation capacity seem untroubled. Until recently, the French…
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The Global Warmists didn’t think this through
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Apparently some activist group on Twitter, called “DCist” recently started running Global Warming Catastrophe stories to support the great COP26 conference in Scotland.
That’s the conference that has seen hundreds of political and bureaucratic worthies spewing thousands of tons of CO2 into Mother Earth’s atmosphere by flying from all over the world to a place where they can discuss how they can stop spewing meagatonnes of CO2 into Mother Earth’s atmosphere.
Here’s one example.
I said many years ago in these debates that people telling me with horror that “The great cities of the world like New York, Washington D.C, San Francisco and LA, will be flooded”, was not only not going to get me onboard the AGW-action train but produce the opposite reaction: “You mean I get to burn fossil fuels AND destroy Leftist enclaves? SIGN ME UP”.
And so…
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Which energy is free?
30 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in energy economics Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
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