Category Archives: Environmental economics
Will selling legal ivory reduce poaching?
Tom Palmer has a paper on popular market myths (HT: Tyler Cowen) and towards the end sounds a little caution about eulogising over markets too much. I thought about that paper when I read Tim Worstall’s post on elephant poaching. … Continue reading
Organic food could be bad for your great great great grandchildren
Organic food can be bad for the environment. One of my first posts was about the expected rail against Tesco’s soaring profits. The relevant part of the post: Supermarkets fly in strawberries from Africa in December, thus polluting the environment. … Continue reading
Lord Lawson takes a pop at Stern
The former Chancellor is not convinced. Lord Lawson told MPs: “One of the oddities of this whole field is that you apply weather forecasting to economic forecasting to demographic forecasting, you pile uncertainty on uncertainty and then apparently you come … Continue reading
Does everything looks like a nail?
An entertaining debate ensues over at The Economist, and in the comments at Marginal Revolution over whether the implications of applying of a zero discount rate in the Stern Report for the issue of abortion. Can it be consistent, asks … Continue reading
Innovation without taxation?
Janet Daley worries that combating environmental damage through taxation of pollution, may re-create a class divide that technology has helped destroy. If politicians are planning restrictions on these “polluting” aspects of private life, to be enforced by a price mechanism, … Continue reading
Be Green, be seen
The purchase of residential wind turbines is proving popular, but as this story highlights, this may not be the best way to be green. Except if all you’re interested in is looking green then it may be the right thing … Continue reading