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.
To the Point: Coronavirus, climate change, and living in states of emergency
Hosted by Warren Olney
Carbon Pricing Workshop
NYU Wagner
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
Carbon Pricing Dialogue
Washington, DC
WaPo: “Mnuchin said Thunberg needed to study economics before offering climate proposals. So we talked to an economist.”
By Philip Bump
Why Oil Giants Figured Out Carbon Costs First
Inaugural Risky Climate column
Penn State
College Park, PA
