Politics

Retraction Watch: Influential paper linking recessions and left-wing voting patterns retracted) A highly cited economics paper that suggested people raised during recessions were more likely to vote for left-leaning political parties has been retracted, apparently due to a coding error that

Thirty years ago, I proposed a dissertation topic to establish a set of national income accounts for Green National Income. It was rejected as too grand (and honestly, I had no idea what I was talking about at the time).

From the WSJ ( Alexa, That Isn’t Elvis! New Music Shuffle Irks Amazon Prime Users): Dustin Bingham loves to play music when he cooks. Recently, he asked one of his eight Amazon Echo smart speakers to play Michael Bublé while he

Here is what they say at Playing for Change:  Built on the belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome the differences that divide us, Playing For Change inspires and unites people through song. Over the past

This: A sharp spike in Greenland temperatures since 1995 showed the giant northern island 2.7 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius) hotter than its 20th-century average, the warmest in more than 1,000 years, according to new ice core data. and this: “This is an important

Here is how it looks in my inbox: Corrigendum to “Exploring the shelf-life of travel cost methods of valuing recreation for benefits transfer” [Resour. Energy Econ. 63 (2021) 101123]. If you click on that it takes you to something I've never

I was recently looking back on some notes I wrote a while back on the difference between efficiency and equity. These notes came about for two reasons: 1) I've had fits and starts over the years of writing a Principles-level

From the WSJ (EVs Made Up 10% of All New Cars Sold Last Year):  Electric-vehicle sales crossed a global milestone last year, achieving around 10% market share for the first time, driven mainly by strong growth in China and Europe, according

I received the question "Why are carbon taxes unpopular with policymakers and politicians?" from a follower on Twitter recently (give me a follow @tim_env_econ). So, I had the brilliant idea to compare how I would answer the question compared to

Peter Coy on the ASSA meetings (How the Coachella of Economics Can Survive Covid) (emphasis added): The annual three-day meeting is the Coachella of economics. It’s a be-in and a teach-in. In place of music, art and other earthly delights, there