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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