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Let`s recreate the Paleocene! Giant snakes, "fat tails", cost-benefit analysis and climate change; Weitzman replies to Nordhaus by TokyoTom

Giant snakes? What could a few colossal bones found in Colombia have to do with us now? 1. A recent paper in Nature about the discovery of several specimens of a giant snake ("Titanoboa") that lived in Latin America 60 million years ago captured...

Bob Murphy - fan of cost-benefit analysis (in the face of climate risks)! by TokyoTom

Austrian-leaning economist Bob Murphy , whose efforts last year to discount the work of Yale's William Nordhaus on how cost-benefit analysis merits current action on climate change I previously examined , is back with more, this time defending Nordhaus'...