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Do you remember that Beatles song "When I'm 85"? At the tender age of 85, Bob Fogel is too busy writing to hum Paul's songs. Fogel and his co-authors are about to publish a new book and it's main findings are written up today in the NY Times' Arts Section .
West Los Angeles is always the place to be but this Friday and Saturday, the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate and the UCLA Economics Department will be raising the stakes by hosting this real estate conference.
This is the golden age of field experiments. Forget natural experiments, lags, propensity score "twins" and other corny ways to test hypotheses.
A few years ago, I interviewed Edward Hums about his book "Eco-Barons" on Book TV. Now, I will get my chance to discuss my Climatopolis on Book TV. I hope my mom watches!
While it is self-serving, I've been frustrated that people have not engaged with the key themes of Climatopolis.
While it is self-serving, I've been frustrated that people have not engaged with the key themes of Climatopolis.
Did you short shares of airlines when you read about the Obama Administration's investment in high speed rail? I didn't and it seems clear that Richard White didn't either.
How does reading newspapers, blogs and watching television shape our world view? Do we read for pleasure or to learn? Once we leave school, we can choose what we want to read.
The recession has hollowed out demand for green products that you consume in private. So, solar panels and the Prius are consumed in public but many other green products are not. These inconspicuous products appear to be suffering from a sharp decline in sales.
A cross post about the challenges of fighting climate change during a recession.
Switching subjects, the Wall Street Journal has published an editorial that mocks the UN for making a big deal in 2005 about the possibility of millions of "climate refugees" by 2010.
Switching subjects, the Wall Street Journal has published an editorial that mocks the UN for making a big deal in 2005 about the possibility of millions of "climate refugees" by 2010.
Forget the hare, the tortoise faces a new foe in the arena called the Mojave Desert. The people of California are in a deep discussion about this topic and when in doubt the experts are called in.
Gene Block is the Chancellor (i.e President) of UCLA. In this Los Angeles Times Op-Ed , he makes a powerful case for supporting my favorite university. He lays out a stark tradeoff. The people of California appear to want a "free lunch".
Evelyn Einstein was the great man's granddaughter. Her obituary highlights how smart she was but goes on to sketch her challenges. To quote the article: "Ms.
Margot Roosevelt writes good stuff for the LA Times and she isn't even writing about Kobe or Paris Hilton. She is writing about climate change mitigation. Today, California is trying to place 360 companies under a cap. Now, all economists would say that this is great.
Congratulations to Stanford's Alan Garber. He has just been named Provost of Harvard University. Harvard has made a brilliant hire. Reading this story reminded me that at my UCLA, economists are under-represented in positions of administrative authority.
On page 4 of the The Education Life Section of the 4/17/2011 New York Times, there is a pie chart showing how full time college students age 15 to 49 spend an average weekday.
China's Urban marriage market is taking some predictable turns as young women are in scarce supply. This article argues that the young women have the bargaining power and they want to date a man with a car and his own apartment.
On the topic of intellectual property rights, are you an open source hippie? Or, are you an "old school" patents defender to provide dynamic incentives for recouping upfront irreversible investments? The NBER economists are hard at work on doing innovative empirical work on this topic.
It is tax season and Casey Mulligan's post has inspired me to talk about my one tax paper. This is a paper that you have not read but you should! My 2009 paper with Bill Gentry is not even listed on REPEC but here it is.
The NBER was kind enough to give me the chance to write a "readable" overview of my recent research on climate change mitigation and adaptation. You can judge whether my work is interesting.
We all seek a sustainable income flow. Most of us rent our human capital and time to others. For example, this morning I may do some temp work (teaching) for UCLA. Whether I show up or not is a random variable and I'm about to use a random number generator to make my decision.
This Friday at 930am in Hollywood, CA I will be speaking in this roundtable. I see that I'm taking the place of Ed Begley Jr..
Who is "Dr" Begley?
Edward James "Ed" Begley, Jr. (born September 16, 1949) is an American actor and environmentalist. Begley is perhaps best known for his role as Dr.
Who is "Dr" Begley?
Edward James "Ed" Begley, Jr. (born September 16, 1949) is an American actor and environmentalist. Begley is perhaps best known for his role as Dr.
For those of you who are friends of UCLA and live close to California's Orange County, I encourage you to attend this UCLA fundraising event on April 12th. Glen MacDonald and I will both have interesting things to say about Climate Change solutions and challenges.
In Climatopolis, I write at length about the "small ball" decisions that self interested and forward looking households and firms will make to help them to adapt to climate change. I argue that these individual choices will add up and go a long way to helping us to adapt to this scary threat.
I thank Neil Lessem for pointing me to this article about the adoption of new techniques for adapting to Fargo flooding.
Why am I optimistic about China's "green" future? While I don't take the Environmental Kuznets Curve too literally, I do believe that China's rising educational attainment and rising per-capita income means that there is a growing urban constituency who want clean air, clean water, clean skies and
I am participating in Fortune's Brainstormgreen Conference. I woke up this morning at the beach side hotel and watched surfers paddle out into the Pacific Ocean. Listening to the panels and talking to individuals about their for profit firm's sustainability efforts, I am optimistic.
In this piece, the Nobel Laureate writes; "But it’s terrifying to realize that this kind of cynical careerism — for that’s what it is — has probably ensured that we won’t do anything about climate change until catastrophe is already upon us." Paul Krugman and I agree that there is "too much gas" a
As I have written about many times, I view climate change to be a major coming challenge.
I am looking forward to participating in this Fortune Brainstorm Green 2011 conference.
I was going to blog about this article that argues that confidence in Japan's seawalls created a moral hazard effect such that government's well meaning actions increased the risk exposure for its people. I talk at length about this unintended consequence of government activism in Climatopolis.
