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Do Non-Profits Respond to Market Signals?
Do Non-Profits Respond to Market Signals?
Dec 30th
Why Didn't the U.S Enact Carbon Cap and Trade in 2009? (and a Coasian Counter-Offer)
Why Didn't the U.S Enact Carbon Cap and Trade in 2009? (and a Coasian Counter-Offer)
Dec 29th
Human Capital Investments and the "Rat Race"
Human Capital Investments and the "Rat Race"
Dec 28th
Pollution Self Protection Investment in China and Quality of Life Inequality
Pollution Self Protection Investment in China and Quality of Life Inequality
Dec 28th
The Behavioral Economics of Propaganda
The Behavioral Economics of Propaganda
Dec 27th
My Return to Doing Macroeconomic Research
My Return to Doing Macroeconomic Research
Dec 26th
Climatopolis on the Radio
Climatopolis on the Radio
Dec 24th
The Revealed Preference for Revealed Preference
The Revealed Preference for Revealed Preference
Dec 21st
The Future of Food Production in a World Shocked by Climate Change
The Future of Food Production in a World Shocked by Climate Change
Dec 20th
How Will Boston Adapt to Climate Change Risk?
How Will Boston Adapt to Climate Change Risk?
Dec 19th
Another Problem From My New Book: Recovering the Valuation of Christmas Gifts from Observed Data
Another Problem From My New Book: Recovering the Valuation of Christmas Gifts from Observed Data
Dec 18th
An Introduction to Empirical Microeconomics
An Introduction to Empirical Microeconomics
Dec 18th
Duration Analysis
Duration Analysis
Dec 17th
The Economics and Politics of the Social Cost of Carbon
The Economics and Politics of the Social Cost of Carbon
Dec 17th
Pollution and Manufacturing Booms: Evidence from 19th Century England
Pollution and Manufacturing Booms: Evidence from 19th Century England
Dec 17th
A Friendly "Old School UChicago" Point for My Fellow Academic Environmental Economics Colleagues to Consider
A Friendly "Old School UChicago" Point for My Fellow Academic Environmental Economics Colleagues to Consider
Dec 15th
My Holiday Gift for the Climate Blogger Joe Romm
My Holiday Gift for the Climate Blogger Joe Romm
Dec 15th
The Economics of New Goods: The Case of Fresh Fruit without Wax
The Economics of New Goods: The Case of Fresh Fruit without Wax
Dec 14th
The Economics of California's AB32 Revisted
The Economics of California's AB32 Revisted
Dec 12th
What Do Google Data Centers and Texas Wind Farms Have in Common?
What Do Google Data Centers and Texas Wind Farms Have in Common?
Dec 12th
President Trump's Views on Urban Renewal
President Trump's Views on Urban Renewal
Dec 10th
Three Thoughts About Regulation and U.S Competitiveness
Three Thoughts About Regulation and U.S Competitiveness
Dec 10th
Are You Richer than Your Dad? The Demand for a Time Travel Machine
Are You Richer than Your Dad? The Demand for a Time Travel Machine
Dec 9th
Tiebout Revisited: What Happens if the Federal EPA is Gutted?
Tiebout Revisited: What Happens if the Federal EPA is Gutted?
Dec 9th
China's Low Carbon Big Push
China's Low Carbon Big Push
Dec 7th
Some Unsolicited Advice for HUD's New Chief Surgeon
Some Unsolicited Advice for HUD's New Chief Surgeon
Dec 5th
REPEC Issues a Monthly "Report Card" for Academic Economists
REPEC Issues a Monthly "Report Card" for Academic Economists
Dec 4th
A Comment on Prof. Krugman's New "Trade Paper"
A Comment on Prof. Krugman's New "Trade Paper"
Dec 4th
Rules vs. Discretion Revisited: Will Don Trump Listen to Ed Prescott and Milton Friedman?
Rules vs. Discretion Revisited: Will Don Trump Listen to Ed Prescott and Milton Friedman?
Dec 3rd
Will President Trump's "Pro-Jobs" Policy Create New Productivity Distortions?
Will President Trump's "Pro-Jobs" Policy Create New Productivity Distortions?
Dec 2nd
Will President Trump's Security Arrangements Cause Road Pricing in NYC?
Will President Trump's Security Arrangements Cause Road Pricing in NYC?
Dec 2nd
Some Airplane Energy Demand Economics
Some Airplane Energy Demand Economics
Dec 1st
Progressive Thinking at Our Universities
Progressive Thinking at Our Universities
Nov 29th
A Provocative Claim from my 2010 Climatopolis Book
A Provocative Claim from my 2010 Climatopolis Book
Nov 28th
Did Coastal Local Zoning in Progressive States Caused the Trump Win? Post #2
Did Coastal Local Zoning in Progressive States Caused the Trump Win? Post #2
Nov 27th
President Trump Will Use the Rest of World's Low Carbon Push to "Bring Home" U.S Jobs
President Trump Will Use the Rest of World's Low Carbon Push to "Bring Home" U.S Jobs
Nov 19th
Facebook News as a "Game of Telephone" on Steroids or What is the Civic Responsibility of a Dominant Social Media Platform?
Facebook News as a "Game of Telephone" on Steroids or What is the Civic Responsibility of a Dominant Social Media Platform?
Nov 18th
A Proposed Field Experiment in Ideological Mixing
A Proposed Field Experiment in Ideological Mixing
Nov 17th
Will Demographic Change Slow Down China's Medium Term Growth?
Will Demographic Change Slow Down China's Medium Term Growth?
Nov 17th
Tom Friedman's Advice for President Trump
Tom Friedman's Advice for President Trump
Nov 16th
Some Facebook Economics: The Downside of Free Communication in a Huge Social Network
Some Facebook Economics: The Downside of Free Communication in a Huge Social Network
Nov 15th
Dinner with USC Econ Undergraduates
Dinner with USC Econ Undergraduates
Nov 15th
Cash for Clunkers Revisited
Cash for Clunkers Revisited
Nov 14th
Acemoglu on U.S Decline
Acemoglu on U.S Decline
Nov 12th
The Rise of USC Economics
The Rise of USC Economics
Nov 12th
Some Predictions about U.S Environmental Policy Under President Trump
Some Predictions about U.S Environmental Policy Under President Trump
Nov 12th
Pollution in China is almost as Interesting as Christianity and Children
Pollution in China is almost as Interesting as Christianity and Children
Nov 10th
President-Elect Trump Will Address the Climate Change Adaptation Challenge
President-Elect Trump Will Address the Climate Change Adaptation Challenge
Nov 10th
Short Tesla?
Short Tesla?
Nov 9th
Did California Zoning Cause the Trump Win? A Counter-Factual of My State's Electoral Count if Housing Supply is Elastic
Did California Zoning Cause the Trump Win? A Counter-Factual of My State's Electoral Count if Housing Supply is Elastic
Nov 9th
PERC's Conference on Free Market Environmentalism and Urban Economics
PERC's Conference on Free Market Environmentalism and Urban Economics
Nov 6th
The USC Economics Review has Launched
The USC Economics Review has Launched
Nov 3rd
Rising Public Transit Quality in Big U.S Cities
Rising Public Transit Quality in Big U.S Cities
Nov 2nd
Zero Sum Game Logic in the NY Times
Zero Sum Game Logic in the NY Times
Oct 31st
A Serious Environmental Economics Conference at ASU
A Serious Environmental Economics Conference at ASU
Oct 30th
The Westwood Mormon Temple Adapts to Drought
Oct 27th
Lost in Translation?
Lost in Translation?
Oct 25th
My New China Piece Published in The Conversation
My New China Piece Published in The Conversation
Oct 25th
A Return to Blogging
A Return to Blogging
Oct 21st
Pro-Basketball Player Demand for the New Urban Lifestyle
Pro-Basketball Player Demand for the New Urban Lifestyle
Oct 12th
Slightly Imperfect Foresight
Slightly Imperfect Foresight
Oct 10th
The NY Times Reviews Biographies of Jane Jacobs and Richard Posner
The NY Times Reviews Biographies of Jane Jacobs and Richard Posner
Oct 9th
Applied Climate Economics
Applied Climate Economics
Oct 8th
A New Book Review of my 2008 Social Capital Book
A New Book Review of my 2008 Social Capital Book
Oct 3rd
Measuring Declining Trust in the Urban Police Using 911 Call Dynamics
Measuring Declining Trust in the Urban Police Using 911 Call Dynamics
Oct 1st
Is UCLA Transportation Achieving "Carbon Neutrality"?
Is UCLA Transportation Achieving "Carbon Neutrality"?
Sep 28th
Yes, USC is the Nation's #15 Ranked College
Yes, USC is the Nation's #15 Ranked College
Sep 28th
Rogoff on China
Rogoff on China
Sep 26th
More Behavioral Economics from the NY Times: The Case of Volcano Eruption Risk with Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
More Behavioral Economics from the NY Times: The Case of Volcano Eruption Risk with Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
Sep 26th
A Sketch of a Cost/Benefit Analysis of the Expo Line Extension in Los Angeles
A Sketch of a Cost/Benefit Analysis of the Expo Line Extension in Los Angeles
Sep 25th
Celebrating the Role of Urbanization in Improving the Quality of Life of Young Indian Women
Celebrating the Role of Urbanization in Improving the Quality of Life of Young Indian Women
Sep 25th
The NY Times Celebrates the Tacit Boycott of Don Trump's New Hotel In Washington DC
The NY Times Celebrates the Tacit Boycott of Don Trump's New Hotel In Washington DC
Sep 24th
A Nuanced Review of my 2016 Book: Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China
A Nuanced Review of my 2016 Book: Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China
Sep 22nd
The New York Times Opinion Page Opines on "Zero-Probability" Events
The New York Times Opinion Page Opines on "Zero-Probability" Events
Sep 20th
Gains to Trade in Carbon Markets Between Liberals and Conservatives
Gains to Trade in Carbon Markets Between Liberals and Conservatives
Sep 18th
The USC Economics Review Prepares to Launch
The USC Economics Review Prepares to Launch
Sep 17th
The Economics Research Agenda on Climate Change Adaptation
The Economics Research Agenda on Climate Change Adaptation
Sep 17th
Will Progressives Pay Climate Skeptics to Stop Polluting?
Will Progressives Pay Climate Skeptics to Stop Polluting?
Sep 15th
A 45 Minute Talk about my new China Book
A 45 Minute Talk about my new China Book
Sep 14th
Climate Change Reporting Suffers from the fact that Reporters Ignore the "Cross-Elasticities" induced by Climate Shocks
Climate Change Reporting Suffers from the fact that Reporters Ignore the "Cross-Elasticities" induced by Climate Shocks
Sep 12th
Why Did Amazon's Kindle Publishing Reject My Advertisement's Phrasing for My $1 Book?
Why Did Amazon's Kindle Publishing Reject My Advertisement's Phrasing for My $1 Book?
Sep 10th
President John R. Coleman: A University of Chicago Trained Economist Who Chose to Work in Manual Labor and as a Prison Guard
President John R. Coleman: A University of Chicago Trained Economist Who Chose to Work in Manual Labor and as a Prison Guard
Sep 9th
President Obama is Pessimistic About Our Ability to Adapt to Climate Change
President Obama is Pessimistic About Our Ability to Adapt to Climate Change
Sep 8th
A Ricardian Criteria for Choosing Which Places Merit "Climate Proofing" Using Public Funds
A Ricardian Criteria for Choosing Which Places Merit "Climate Proofing" Using Public Funds
Sep 5th
Peers at Work as of August 2016
Peers at Work as of August 2016
Sep 4th
The Economics of Coastal Flooding
The Economics of Coastal Flooding
Sep 4th
My Powerpoint Slides for my "Blue Skies Over Beijing" Princeton Press book
My Powerpoint Slides for my "Blue Skies Over Beijing" Princeton Press book
Sep 3rd
The Urban Economics of African-American Exposure to Lead
The Urban Economics of African-American Exposure to Lead
Sep 2nd
Adapting to a Strategic Opponent vs. Adapting to Climate Change
Adapting to a Strategic Opponent vs. Adapting to Climate Change
Aug 31st
China's Water Pollution Regulation
China's Water Pollution Regulation
Aug 30th
Shiller's Conjectures About the Long Run Consequences of Income Inequality
Shiller's Conjectures About the Long Run Consequences of Income Inequality
Aug 28th
My Advice for the NY Times as it Searches for a "Climate Change Editor"
My Advice for the NY Times as it Searches for a "Climate Change Editor"
Aug 27th
Dr. Krugman is Correct about Urban Quality of Life Progress
Dr. Krugman is Correct about Urban Quality of Life Progress
Aug 27th
The Federal Government's Gross Employment Flows from 2005 to 2015
Aug 27th
China's Value Added in Rebuilding U.S Cities
China's Value Added in Rebuilding U.S Cities
Aug 26th
Real Estate Investment and Modeling Flood Risk Uncertainty
Real Estate Investment and Modeling Flood Risk Uncertainty
Aug 24th
An Economic Analysis of the NY Times Bashing of Exxon on "Carbon Stranded Assets"
An Economic Analysis of the NY Times Bashing of Exxon on "Carbon Stranded Assets"
Aug 20th
Cutting Edge California Carbon Policy: Nudging Bus Operators to Use Garbage as Fuel
Cutting Edge California Carbon Policy: Nudging Bus Operators to Use Garbage as Fuel
Aug 19th
The Value of a Statistical Life Revisited: Evidence from Hostage Negotiations with Iran
The Value of a Statistical Life Revisited: Evidence from Hostage Negotiations with Iran
Aug 18th
Some Economics of Persistent Social Networks
Some Economics of Persistent Social Networks
Aug 17th
My Research and My Books
My Research and My Books
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