I should send Ed Mills two copies of the 2008 Chinese Translation of my Green Cities book. Maybe he would like this one more than the original english version? I still like my book a lot. My co-author Siqi Zheng helped make this translation happen. I'm grateful to her for her help.
I have returned from 4 days and nights at the NBER Summer Institute. The highlights included Marty Weitzman's talk on "fat tails" at the Environmental Meetings and the dinner celebrating Marty Feldstein's major contributions as President of the NBER for the last 30 years. It does amaze me that Dr.
It's Our Earth, Now What Do We Do With It?
By EDWARD GLAESER, Special to the Sun | July 18, 2008
http://www.nysun.com/arts/its-our-earth-now-what-do-we-do-with-it/82183/
Political movements are often built on literary foundations.
By EDWARD GLAESER, Special to the Sun | July 18, 2008
http://www.nysun.com/arts/its-our-earth-now-what-do-we-do-with-it/82183/
Political movements are often built on literary foundations.
Seasonality is a boring word. Many environmentalists are now talking about it saying that in a world of high energy prices that trucking berries and other fruits from distant farmers to urban consumers will rise in price and that these urban consumers will respond by eating a more seasonal diet.
While I won't win a Clark Medal and the monthly IDEAS email tells me that I have barely cracked the top 5% of academic economists, I have now achieved something that I'm proud of.
I've always wondered what the price of gasoline would have to be for Harvard to start drilling in Harvard Square. Now, I'm not a geologist and I don't play one on TV but there could be some oil deposits under that Burger joint.
Housing will soon be a pinch more affordable around the country. For reasons perhaps related to humidity and housing supply regulation, Houston is an affordable city for the middle class seeking out the American Dream. In this editorial, Ed Glaeser contrasts New York City and Houston.
I was just walking my son to school within .25 miles of UCLA and a tall woman with a friendly dog walked past us. Upon second glance, I convinced myself that it was tennis great Venus Williams . She is taller than I am and appears to be in better shape.
Exciting things are taking place at the UCLA Institute of the Environment. If the existence of a webpage is any sign, we now have an active New Research Center at UCLA focused on Corporate Environmentalism .
Harvard's total energy bill is greater than $100 million per year. The university thinks it can do better.
What are the full set of perks that big politicians get for being the boss? What would be the market price of these perks? Be honest, isn't this a small price to pay to get excellent people to work for our government? Would government attract a lower quality set of leaders if the Congress knew that
I just learned that good research is taking place at UC Berkeley. Who would have guessed? What is my evidence? John Quigley has gone green.
When do policy makers listen to economists? Do we lead or lag policy? In the case of urban policy, the New York Times today has a nice piece on Congestion and Parking Price Differentials. My colleague Don Shoup should approve. During peak hours, parking prices will double.
Drive around West Los Angeles in Santa Monica, Westwood or Beverly Hills or Brentwood and you will see the contrast between the old housing stock and the new. Simple small 3 and 4 bedroom homes are next to new grand "McMansions".
This was just published in the NBER Reporter (http://www.nber.org/reporter/2008number2/costa.html). Before the Internet and the World Wide Web, these NBER Reporters were a pinch more exciting but I still think they convey valuable information.
Seth Ditchik of Princeton University Press has created a novel new product. He took my forthcoming social capital during the U.S Civil War book (joint with Dora L. Costa) 's text and fed it through http://wordle.net/. Here is the output based on the Word Count analysis of our Forthcoming Book .
In 1997, Constanza --- not the guy from Seinfeld, wrote the paper arguing that natural capital is worth trillions of dollars (see http://www.uvm.edu/giee/publications/Nature_Paper.pdf). Most neo-classical economists didn't fully believe his method for generating his big numbers.
Upstate New York may have a fair bit of natural gas underground in the Marcellus Shale formation, which in New York runs from Lake Erie across to the Catskills.
If the price of gas remains at $5 a gallon or higher, will people move back to Center Cities? Many bloggers seem to be assuming that people work in the Center City and live in the suburbs . This is a 1950s view of suburbia. Ed Glaeser and I have written about this point extensively.
AB32 commits California to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. This is ambitious but will compliance be costly for the state? "Rather than assessing the costs that will be borne by industry, Mary D.
