I recently gave a talk to a student group at Connecticut College on the economics of climate change. (The video is broken up into three parts on my YouTube channel: one , two , and three .) In this post I’ll summarize three of my main points: (1) There is a huge disconnect between what the published economics research actually says about
As detailed here , no expensive and ill-used, Western aid, no high tech inputs, no government planning, no Malthusian doom — just a simple tale of human ingenuity, incentivised by the small matter of better property rights, overcoming an ecological disaster. From colonial times, all trees in Niger had been regarded as the property of the state,
Another week of Trump monopolizing the news cycle, first with a typo and then by exiting the Obama administration’s Paris Climate Agreement. Rejecting the international agreement is not only a victory for American self-determination , but will improve the lives of the billions who were going to bear the real costs of another layer of government
“Science,” the method by which we understand the world and apply knowledge to improve human existence, is the latest casualty of the Progressive agenda. On April 22, 2017, several million people gathered at March for Science rallies across the United States to “stand up for science.” But surely science needs no publicity stunt in the
The Virginia Tech Professor who blew the whistle on lead in the water in Flint, MI thinks “public science” has been broken. Not knowing its been a broken system all along. In a recent interview , he comes forth with a stinging indictment of government-supported science. He does understand that this widespread problem of incompetent, worthless
Recientemente di una charla a un grupo de estudiantes del Connecticut College sobre la economía del cambio climático. (El video está dividido en tres partes en mi canal de YouTube: una , dos y tres .) En este post resumiré tres de mis puntos principales: (1) Existe una enorme desconexión entre lo que la investigación económica publicada dice
La «ciencia», el método por el que entendemos el mundo y aplicamos conocimiento para mejorar la existencia humana, es la última víctima de la agenda progresista. El 22 de abril de 2017, varios millones de personas se unieron en manifestaciones de la Marcha por la Ciencia en todo Estados Unidos para «defender la ciencia». Pero indudablemente la
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