One of those "problem-driven researcher" types. Water, Land, Ecosystem Services, Food Systems, Decisions Under Uncertainty. Econ too but w/ heterodox sympathies
Washington, DC, alas
Joined September 2011
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"guys decarbonization is too expensive" wait finance.yahoo.com/news/least…
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Put simply, I've found that there is a formula for success for publishing climate change research in the most prestigious and widely-read scientific journals and unfortunately this formula also makes the research less useful.
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Would the rich pay more in tax if public opinion decided?
My new article "Taxing the 1 per cent: Public Opinion vs Public Policy" is now available in FirstView at @BJPolS.
(cambridge.org/core/journals/…).
Here's a thread 🧵 on the main findings
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most politicians are all about “public safety” unless safety would require less inequality. the unattainable holy grail of “law and order” politics is therefore claiming to produce “safety” without improving the material conditions of people's lives.
The corporation’s job is not to serve the social good, to practice certain values, or even to make toys. It is to serve the interests of its owners. So a Mattel Barbie movie does not come about because someone has a deep artistic vision for a Barbie movie. currentaffairs.org/2023/08/i…
I was prepared to roll my eyes a bit at this article but found a lot of it spot on, and in the distinction of "mode of production" and "what is produced" relevant and underappreciated, having had similar but less well-formulated thoughts before.
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A lot of outlets have been telling the story of Tony Bennett marching with MLK.
But have you ever heard the story about how “wokeness,” DEI, Jesus, an actual anti-racist, 2 church choirs & 1 of the greatest dance moves of all time got Tony Bennett into show biz?
A thread
Wow, just hitting all the perversities! Taking unmonitored scarce water to grow cattle feed to ship to cattle in an oil producing desert country on another continent.
washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year climate policy associate. You just got finished reading a classic environmental treatise—Arthur Pigou probably—and you're convinced that taxes are the most efficient way to address negative externalities.
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Because here is the thing. Every. Single. Journalist. who was there (and there were many, from major outlets all over Europe and the world) that I spoke to, said "my editor refuses to print any story critical of economic growth."
Every.
Single.
One.
#BeyondGrowth2023
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I have an idea - maybe fund some of the umpteen broken promises to lower income countries that the rich world has made over the last two decades of climate talks. reuters.com/business/energy/…
Most notably: us.boell.org/en/2021/10/25/b…
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We just witnessed a political massacre and a coup d’état by the North Carolina Supreme Court. Five Republicans—all white—with two African-Americans dissenting, decided to be the focal point of voter suppression in North Carolina.
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This is an important fact to see: investments in which crimes to look for determine to a significant extent which people are prosecuted. Government spends relatively few resources looking for the crimes of the rich, but tens of billions on cops for drug war and homelessness, etc.
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Why isn't Congress delivering solutions that help families & workers? Because policymakers write bills to satisfy the scorekeepers, not their constituents.
I close out this month's @TheProspect issue with a personal story & some solutions. A thread 1/11
prospect.org/economy/2023-04…
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As Texas Gov Abbot prepares to pardon a white man & convicted murderer for killing a peaceful BLM protestor—Texas sentences a Black man to 70 years in prison for “spitting at police” to “make an example out of him.”😳
Systemic white supremacy is thriving in the GOP. Horrific.
