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Fat Tails Part Deux: cost-benefit analysis and climate change; Weitzman replies to Nordhaus by TokyoTom

[Note: Although the giant snakes I mentioned in my preceding post may have fat tails, I didn't want my description of the discussion between Harvard`s Martin Weitzman and Yale`s William Nordhaus of the limits of cost-benefit analysis to be overlooked...

Jim Manzi/Cato on climate: with flabby "libertariarian sinews", he advocates no panic, but domestic climate science and technology investments by TokyoTom

[UPDATE: See my follow-up post .] Cato Unbound's new climate issue features a lead essay by Jim Manzi , who is an MIT- and Wharton-trained statistician and CEO of Applied Predictive Technologies (which uses pattern recognition and optimization models...

Can Pigovian taxes be Coasean bargains? - The case of climate negotiations by TokyoTom

David Zetland's libertarian-environmental blog, Aguanomics , has recently been carrying on some excellent discussions on resource and environmental economics, with interlocutors like Bob Murphy , Gene Callahan and others. In the context of two recent...

Comment to Bob Murphy on whether "Cap and Trade" is a "market solution" by TokyoTom

I copy below comments I made on June 11 (Tokyo time) on Bob Murphy 's June 4 blog post, Cap and Trade Is Not a "Market Solution" , that have apparently been held up for moderator approval (perhaps because my three links triggered the blog's...