Here is the twitter page for 21CC at Johns Hopkins. I encourage you to follow our activities.
The Nobel Laureate James Tobin makes a number of wise points here about the challenge that Yale faced in the 1970s and 1980s for building up a cross-campus economics community. These sound familiar.
When John Lennon and Yoko Ono recorded Imagine, I doubt that they imagined a West Coast without any land use zoning restrictions. In this blog post, I will imagine exactly this scenario. My imagination was triggered by this piece written by three friends of mine.
This podcast was recorded back in 2010. This is a recording of a talk I gave in Culver City about the economics of climate change adaptation. I focus on the system of cities and the system of neighborhoods within cities and how they compete for economic opportunity.
UC Berkeley's Dan Farber has written a very nice piece about the challenge that climate change will pose for today's 20 year olds in the year 2100. As both a concerned citizen and as the father of a 17 year old, I take such informed predictions quite seriously.
The year 2100 is 81 years from now.
The year 2100 is 81 years from now.
A constant debate in sustainability circles revolves around whether there are "limits to growth".
I will soon attend an event that will honor Professor Robert Willis of the University of Michigan and Stanford University. Here are my brief remarks;
"During my graduate studies at UChicago, I worked for Bob as a TA and as a Research Assistant. He served on my dissertation committee.
"During my graduate studies at UChicago, I worked for Bob as a TA and as a Research Assistant. He served on my dissertation committee.
Cooking recipes provide a blueprint for how to make a cake that serves 4 people. Given that there is a market for cake inputs such as sugar and eggs, you can use this blueprint to make 1 cake for 4 people or 2 cakes for 8 people.
