Some people actually do work in Los Angeles. Today, the NY Times writes about our major growing employment sector. More people are getting jobs to drive tour buses that go around and look at celebrity homes and places where celebrities such as Brittney and Lindsey have gotten into trouble.
Daniel Aldrich has published a politically correct and thought provoking piece in the NY Times about the beneficial role that social capital plays in helping affected individuals to cope with natural disasters.
Sean Lennon may not remember the one time we were 10 feet from each other. I was a young Asst. Professor at Columbia and he was an undergraduate there sitting on the Low Library steps being cool. I spotted him and gawked and then kept walking.
Behavioral economists are studying how framing issues and the setting where we are located affects our willingness to absorb information and how it affects our actions in markets (see Laibon's paper on cue-theory). For those Cambridge Ph.D. students seeking a dissertation topic.
In today's Sacramento Bee, Andrew Chang has some tough things to say about California's AB32 and about Bo Cutter and myself. He omits some details that are worth mentioning. First, some background. Last week, Bo Cutter and I published this OP-Ed in the Sac Bee.
My wife and I just walked from our house to Westwood Village for a Saturday lunch. Here is a photo of what it looks like on a typical Los Angeles day in Westwood.
Doesn't it look nice! It is 75 degrees and sunny and blue skies 310 days a year but there is one disamenity.
Doesn't it look nice! It is 75 degrees and sunny and blue skies 310 days a year but there is one disamenity.
The New York Times' reporters need to take a refresher course on supply and demand.
In 2003, Dora Costa and I published a paper on desertion and loyalty during war time. How does an organization reward loyalty? How does it punish disloyalty? For a data point about how NYU rewards loyalty read this. Today, I learned how Southwest Airlines rewards loyalty.
A NY Times OP-ED piece by Jermiah Moss bemoans the gentrification taking place along the Manhattan side of the Hudson River.
Los Angeles is quite a town. Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield Assemblymember, 40th District just sent out the following news item.
More than 300 people attend hearing on helicopter noise
At the request of Congressman Howard L.
More than 300 people attend hearing on helicopter noise
At the request of Congressman Howard L.
Unemployment is too high. We need job creation.
Over the last couple of months, I had the opportunity to work on an interesting ADB project related to the rise of "green cities" in Asia.
It is Saturday night so it is time to calculate some weighted means. The United States consists of roughly 3,000 counties.
Here is a blog piece that is worth reading by by Frank Lowenstein and Evan Girvetz of the Nature Conservancy.
Here are some juicy quotes;
"And this summer the impacts of our mounting climate debt became clear. July was the hottest month ever in U.S. history (3.3°F above the 20th century average).
Here are some juicy quotes;
"And this summer the impacts of our mounting climate debt became clear. July was the hottest month ever in U.S. history (3.3°F above the 20th century average).
At UC Berkeley's Economics Department, I found a stack of free books on a chair. I grabbed a copy of my UCLA colleague Kal Raustiala's new book The Knockoff Economy. I want to offer some praise for the book and a few sharp questions.
I am in Berkeley today and will return to Westwood soon. It's about 70 degrees here and at night when the temperature hovers around 50 degrees some homes actually are running wood furnaces to generate some heat or at least to pollute the air.
I like to see examples of successful UCLA graduates who are embracing "sustainability issues" in their professional work. I was just sent the following email about Beth Holden (a UCLA grad).
Will Merced grow into the next Los Angeles? This article in the Merced Sun-Star sketches some challenges that this nascent city will face due to climate change.
The Sacramento Bee has published an opinion piece that I wrote with Bo Cutter. We argue that California's AB32 (the legislation intended to sharply reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions) is off to a good start.
UCLA School of Nursing study shows walnuts improve sperm quality
Laura Perry (She wrote the following blurb)
Eating about two handfuls of walnuts a day may provide men the added boost they need to improve their fertility, according to a breakthrough study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nur
Laura Perry (She wrote the following blurb)
Eating about two handfuls of walnuts a day may provide men the added boost they need to improve their fertility, according to a breakthrough study by researchers at the UCLA School of Nur
Do you know that you don't know what will happen in the future? If you have such self awareness, then the intrade prediction site might be some help as its market prices provide some evidence on what market participants think is the probability of future events.
Asset pricing economists tend to be quite smart and quite well paid. Permit me to pose a puzzle for them. Facebook's "lockup" period ends this Thursday.
I learned a lot from this 45 minute NPR segment. The host kept asking me "adaptation architecture" questions. For example, one woman wanted to know if I supported more people living underground where it is nice and cool even during summer time.
I've read the NY Times each day since I was 15. I've read the NY Post each day since I was 18! An Opinion Piece in the NY Times today by Bill Keller really grosses me out. In this piece, this journalist assumes that he knows more economics than leading Ph.D.
When Opportunity knocks, you have to open the door! I am looking forward to being on Nevada NPR radio tomorrow morning to talk about climate change adaptation. Unfortunately, we are not being proactive and reducing our GHG emissions.
The LA Times reports about the hot temperatures in California and the resulting high electricity demand. Permit me to sketch a simple field experiment I proposed that would solve this "blackout" problem. California's electric utilities such as PGE have implemented "Automated Demand Response".
This Sunday the NY Times will publish this piece about drought in the American West. The piece makes a lot of sense until the very end. Here is one of its last paragraphs.
"Many Western cities will have to fundamentally change how they acquire and use water.
"Many Western cities will have to fundamentally change how they acquire and use water.
When I was a kid, Vice Presidents such as Spiro Agnew and Nelson Rockefeller and Walter Mondale looked like old dudes to me. Now, I see that Paul Ryan is 4 years younger than me.
California's DTSC is proposing important new consumer product safety regulation. The details about this regulation are posted here. My prospective economic analysis of the regulation is posted here.
The WSJ took a short break from advocating 4% GNP growth and offering political advice to Mitt Romney by publishing a piece by two of the great Nobel Laureates in Economics. Gary Becker's and James Heckman's piece is posted here.
I am looking forward to attending and speaking at this World Bank Barcelona event. Here is the schedule for the first day of the conference.
We all know that July 2012 was a record heat month. Your discomfort offers opportunities for profit seeking firms and they are stepping up. That's free market adaptation and the NY Times has written a good article "naming names" of the new generation of "heroes".
In the late 1990s, I published three papers about the economics of diabetes. These are not my best known papers but you can judge whether they are good. Here is paper #1, paper #2 and paper #3.
Today's NY Times features a very good OP-ED by Prof. William Moseley.
