Applied economists are "detectives". We know that we do not know your preferences. If we could learn about your willingness to pay for market goods such as cell phones or for non-market goods such as clean air and safe streets, then both businesses and governments will demand our services.

General Motors has announced that it will only produce electric vehicles starting in the year 2035.  Suppose that there no more new fossil fuel vehicles purchased by U.S consumers in the year 2035 and going forward.

The New York Times has published an important piece on free speech on American University campuses.  I'd like to share some thoughts from the perspective of urban economics.

Back in 1986, I was living in London because I was a Visiting Student at the London School of Economics.

While every Mayor of a Big U.S city would love to receive an unconditional cash transfer from President Biden, this blog post will not explore this idea.

In this blog post, I want to market my new co-authored book "Unlocking the Potential of Post Industrial Cities" .  I will do this by talking about past research on the Economics of the Rust Belt.   Here is chapter one of my book and here is a recent video where I talk about the book.

I have spent my career publishing in environmental and urban economics.  You can look up my Google Scholar page to see that many of my papers are well cited.

Over the years, I have written out a distinctive undergraduate environmental economics textbook that I use in my classes.

Suppose that masks are invisible,  would more people wear them?  Would more supporters of President Trump wear them?  How much of the opposition to playing it safe and putting on a mask is due to the economics of identity?    To repeat my question, if you could put on a mask but everyone else wouldn

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