What Economics Can Contribute to a Healthier Planet
If you care about the planet, there’s no better way to make your feelings known than to study up on your economics.
30 to 1
Large benefit-cost ratios are good. They also mean more can and must be done.
Fat chance
Obesity, global warming, and behavioral change
Should Greenpeace have a picture of John D. Rockefeller on the wall of every office?
We're running out of atmosphere long before we're running out of fossil fuels to burn
A ton of coal, gone tomorrow
Green accounting = honest accounting
Decades of evidence
The last "decade without warming" certainly didn't happen this century
For the love of people
Is population the problem?
Planetary socialism
The Social Cost of Carbon
Going Green but Getting Nowhere
Don’t stop recycling. Don’t stop buying local. But add mastering some basic economics to your to-do list.
Nuclear numbers
The looming U.S. nuclear cliff
“3 to 0″ beats “10 to 3″
Hard Problem, Soft Thinking
Pollution has a price, just not for the polluter
Burning oil or coal causes more in external damages than it adds value to GDP
5, 20, 25
Climate fairness
Global Kids Institute, Council on Foreign Relations
New York, NY
In memoriam
Steve Schneider takes on skeptics
Climate Policy: Hard Problem, Soft Thinking
by Gernot Wagner and Richard J. Zeckhauser
Carbon trading grows up
When someone robs a bank, nobody challenges the legitimacy of banks. They suggest instead that the bank find better security. Why should carbon markets be any different?
Austrian Rail Lines
Warum sollte die AUA nicht Züge von Linz nach Wien Schwechat anbieten?
Energy Content of World Trade
by Gernot Wagner
