Hotelling’s Rule is a theory of nonrenewable natural resources that says that prices of such resources will rise at the rise of…
From NPR on February 8th (Residents can return home after crews burned chemicals in derailed tanker cars): “About 50 cars, including 10…
If you need an example of a negative externality for your class today then here is a good one from NOAA
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The 2.4 million people who live along Utah’s Wasatch Front experience some of the most severe winter particulate matter air pollution in…
The US government did not shut down in FY 2023. That is immensely unremarkable… But, I had a social media memory pop…
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Dear Dr.,
We hope this email finds you well. While browsing the internet, we came across…
AERE@SEA abstract submissions are open (a brief history of @AereOrg sessions at regional economics meetings)
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Here is the link: https://aere.memberclicks.net/conference—sea. The deadline is the end of February. For the first time since 2006 I’m not chairing the…
Have you ever known that person that has a ton of great ideas but never gets them done? That's the renewable energy industry
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From the WSJ (Investors Plow Into Renewables, but Projects Aren’t Getting Built):
Even as developers plan an unprecedented number of grid-scale…
Ummm, @PeterGleick, I addressed this 5,958 days ago: Free markets are, in fact, not free
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I’d like to give you two basic definitions of a free market and see which one you agree with: 1) Free market:…
I just learned that Jack Knetsch died back in August. Here is the obituary from Simon Fraser University:
Jack was a…
