stickman's corral

This will be my last post at Stickman's Corral. I recently built a new website and all future blogging activity will be hosted here: g...

I was quoted in a recent article about bringing power to sub-Saharan Africa: " How do you bring electricity to 620 million people? ...

NOTE: The code and data used to produce all of the figures in this post can be found here . Having forsworn blogging activity for several ...

Note: Slight edits to graphs and text to make things clearer and more comparable. Richard Tol is a man who likes to court controversy. I ...

I've been somewhat preoccupied with more pressing matters...

[My new post at the Recon Hub, which I'll repost in full here...] Ashok Rao has a provocative suggestion for stopping the rampant po...

Seriously. I've been reading a lot of (hard) scientific studies for my current dissertation chapter and it is striking how concise the...

As the man says, you wouldn't understand unless you've been there. (Start from 2:45)

Some of these are brilliant.

Yesterday's post reminded me of a story that encapsulates much of my own feelings about credit rating agencies (and, indeed, the naivete...