[Note: Although the giant snakes I mentioned in my preceding post may have fat tails, I didn't want my description of the discussion between Harvard`s Martin Weitzman and Yale`s William Nordhaus of the limits of cost-benefit analysis to be overlooked, so I have largely copied it below. I've added...
[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models for sales and marketing). Manzi is a newcomer...
David Zetland's libertarian-environmental blog, Aguanomics , has recently been carrying on some excellent discussions on resource and environmental economics, with interlocutors like Bob Murphy , Gene Callahan and others. In the context of two recent posts on government approaches to climate change...
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Filed under: AGW, carbon pricing, Callahan, climate change, Nordhaus, Bob Murphy, David Zetland, Mankiw, Pigou, coase
I copy below comments I made on June 11 (Tokyo time) on Bob Murphy 's June 4 blog post, Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution" , that have apparently been held up for moderator approval (perhaps because my three links triggered the blog's spam defenses?): Bob, I thank you for posting...