How Virus Testing Is Just Like A Carbon Tax
Testing and taxing are important steps in the fights against the pandemic and climate change— and both have their limits.
BECC
Webinar
Why COVID-19's Effect on Carbon Emissions Isn't a Win
Pausing the World to Fight Coronavirus Has Carbon Emissions Down—But True Climate Success Looks Like More Action, Not Less
Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Time of Coronavirus and Climate Change
Like climate economics, the economics of Covid-19 mean we need to take aggressive action, not incremental steps.
CNBC: How Coronavirus quarantines lead to a drop in air pollution
Report by Katie Brigham
MIT Technology Review
Radio Corona
University of Maryland
College Park, MD
The Virus Is Teaching Everyone What Runaway Growth Really Means
To make sense of the spread of Covid-19, economics—particularly black swan events and compound growth—can provide guidance.
Carbon Pricing Workshop
NYU Wagner
To the Point: Coronavirus, climate change, and living in states of emergency
Hosted by Warren Olney
Compound Growth Could Kill Us – or Make Us Stronger
The power of compound growth has long been recognized as essential to economic development. But in both the COVID-19 pandemic and the slower-moving climate crisis, this same mathematical force is cutting the other way, revealing dangerous shortcomings in how we manage externalities.
How Economics Can Inform Coronavirus Decision-Making
When considering travel and other choices, economic principles can provide guidance.
Discussion with Robert Frank
New York, NY
The True Price of Carbon
A $40 carbon dioxide price? Try $100, $200, or possibly more.
An Economist’s Guide to Spending Bezos’s Billions on Climate Change
The money would go far in politics, but it will also allow for technological experimentation and will take a fundraising burden off recipients.
KGO 810 Radio San Francisco
Pat Thurston Show
Economic Policy Analysis
Spring 2020
CFR podcast: Dimming the Sky
Why It Matters
Carbon Taxes Alone Aren’t Good Climate Policy
To drive down tomorrow’s CO₂ emissions, governments need to subsidize fossil fuel alternatives, too.
India in the coming 'climate G2'?
by Jonathan Camuzeaux, Thomas Sterner, and Gernot Wagner
