Hello all. Here are some links I’d like to do posts on, but don’t have the time. As a result, I suggest enjoying them for yourself! VoxEU discusses banks being “too large” (to big to fail subsides). VoxEU again, on Piketty’s second fundamental law. Noah Smith with further comments on undergrad economics. Eric Crampton on […]
Hey all. I am doing a short presentation on communicating economic ideas – a bit of an abstract conversation where I talk about it in terms of assumptions. This is similar to last year’s NZAE paper, but focused on only a subset of what was covered. The presentation can be found here. It is aimed […]
Recently, I’ve been attempting to do aerial yoga. This has led my friends to call me a hippy for some reason, what can I say economists are strange. Anyway, this led to the following discussion statement from my friend – which he suggested I post (and I agree it would be fun to discuss). Why […]
Today I wrote a brief post on the Green announcement of a carbon tax. I do support the carbon tax, but just wanted to raise some specific issues to think about. However, a number of people on twitter were unhappy with me saying that, without Kyoto, we didn’t have an externality here – and I […]
I see that the Greens have announced a carbon tax to replace the emissions trading scheme (with details and analysis by BERL here). The authors of TVHE have long been a fan of this type of switch when discussing the issue (eg here and here). And the idea of pricing an externality and using it […]
James sent me the following, I have nothing to add: Piketty's Capital: An Economist's Inequality Ideas Are All the Rage http://t.co/ncC6z97KDl via @BW @asymmetricinfo pic.twitter.com/QFOnqUlsiS — Brad Tucker (@BradCTucker) May 29, 2014 I’d also point out that Piketty has discussed claims of data mistakes here: Piketty reply decimates the FT. Summary: http://t.co/TEhJhc7YLh Piketty's blow-by-blow: http://t.co/GF7LIl0oMe Debate's over folks. […]