Clips: Nuclear power versus climate change: Is that the choice?

First blog post of the new semester is by our newest environmental economics faculty member, Professor William Pizer of the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. ———– Last week I gave a talk to the Orange/Chatham County Sierra Club on this topic. Since the disaster at the Fukushima [...]
--Jan 18, 2012 from Environmental Economics by Lori Bennear; We’re From the Government and We’re Here to Help–Take 2

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of listening to Hunt Alcott, Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU, present some new work on the impact of taxation when consumers are inattentive to certain types of price signals. Earlier in this course we learned about different types of taxes: corrective taxes that “correct” a market failure and [...]
--Dec 05, 2011 from Environmental Economics by Lori Bennear; Endangered No Longer–Protecting Species in the Courts, Congress, or the Market

I grew up in Wyoming and my interest in environmental economics stems from three distinct tensions between the environment and the economy of Wyoming. The first was that many people in my town made their living from extracting coal. The second was controversy over the “let it burn” policy during the severe wildfire in Yellowstone [...]
--Nov 28, 2011 from Environmental Economics by Lori Bennear; We’re from the government and we’re here to help

Imagine you are in the market for a new light truck. Let’s say it’s a new Ford Explorer. You go to your favorite Ford dealer and the helpful salesperson tells you that she has two 2011 Explorers with identical performance and features. One of these cars costs $2000 more and gets 49.6 mpg, the other [...]
--Nov 21, 2011 from Environmental Economics by Lori Bennear; Be careful what you wish for

This week, I’m featuring a guest blog by my colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Vincent, the Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. —– Most people would agree that it’s a good thing to improve governance: to make governments more accountable, bureaucracies more efficient, corruption [...]
--Nov 15, 2011 from Environmental Economics by Lori Bennear; More…

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Nuclear power versus climate change: Is that the choice?

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Jan 18, 2012.

First blog post of the new semester is by our newest environmental economics faculty member, Professor William Pizer of the Sanford School of Public Policy and the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions. ———– Last week I gave a talk to the Orange/Chatham County Sierra Club on this topic. Since the disaster at the Fukushima [...]

We’re From the Government and We’re Here to Help–Take 2

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Dec 05, 2011.

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of listening to Hunt Alcott, Assistant Professor of Economics at NYU, present some new work on the impact of taxation when consumers are inattentive to certain types of price signals. Earlier in this course we learned about different types of taxes: corrective taxes that “correct” a market failure and [...]

Endangered No Longer–Protecting Species in the Courts, Congress, or the Market

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Nov 28, 2011.

I grew up in Wyoming and my interest in environmental economics stems from three distinct tensions between the environment and the economy of Wyoming. The first was that many people in my town made their living from extracting coal. The second was controversy over the “let it burn” policy during the severe wildfire in Yellowstone [...]

We’re from the government and we’re here to help

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Nov 21, 2011.

Imagine you are in the market for a new light truck. Let’s say it’s a new Ford Explorer. You go to your favorite Ford dealer and the helpful salesperson tells you that she has two 2011 Explorers with identical performance and features. One of these cars costs $2000 more and gets 49.6 mpg, the other [...]

Be careful what you wish for

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Nov 15, 2011.

This week, I’m featuring a guest blog by my colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Vincent, the Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. —– Most people would agree that it’s a good thing to improve governance: to make governments more accountable, bureaucracies more efficient, corruption [...]

Integration of the Shrimp Market and Why Environmentalists Should Care

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Nov 11, 2011.

Frank Asche, Atle Oglend, Marty Smith and I have a new paper that looks at the determinants of prices in different shrimp markets–prices for big and small shrimp; prices for brown, white and pink shrimp; and prices for wild-caught shrimp and farmed shrimp. In particular, we look to see whether prices for different categories of [...]

The California Effect

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Oct 31, 2011.

I was all set to write a blog this week about the recent enactment of a fairly comprehensive cap-and-trade program in California. But then, my mentor Rob Stavins, sent around his blog and I realized there was probably no point in re-writing what he had done so well. So I link you to Professor Stavins’ [...]

Profile: Travel; Relationship Status: It’s Complicated

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Oct 24, 2011.

We all wear several different hats. I’m a professor, a wife, and a mom (probably in reverse order of importance). In trying to lead a balanced life we may sometimes struggle with conflicts among these roles. Similarly many of us find ourselves with multiple labels: environmentalist, feminist, economist, global citizen. In trying to live a [...]

Beyond Belts and Suspenders: Will the Safety and Environmental Management Program (SEMP) Ensure Safety of Offshore Oil Drilling?

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Oct 17, 2011.

On April 20, 2010, 11 workers were killed in an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the process of drilling the Macondo well off the Gulf of Mexico. The blowout ultimately resulted in between 4 and 5 million barrels of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. Early estimates of the damages from the [...]

Fall Break

By Lori Bennear, Ph.D. from Lori Bennear. Published on Oct 10, 2011.

It’s Fall Break here at Duke. The blogger is out enjoying the environment and supporting the economy. Tune back in next week.

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