stickman's corral

I've tried to emphasise the importance of relative concepts many times on this blog. However, there are occasions when relative measures...

Apologies for the lack of posting recently. Aside from research stuff, most of my "internet" time has been spent working on the R...

Because here's why: Forget the environment. This flagrant disregard for personal space must end!

But keep it quiet. I spent some time last week with the Dutch economist, Johannes Bollen , who was visiting my university to present his ...

From the latest American Economic Review : Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy By Nicholas Z. Muller, Rob...

In several recent posts , Dan Kuehn advanced the notion that "the future" is, in some sense, an autarkic regime... Basicall...

Regular readers[*] will know that a favourite theme of this blog is thinking about how -- and where -- markets function "optimally...

Like, take it easy, Man. Disclaimer : I've conflated a lot of libertarianism/Austrianism in post. This was partly for simplicity, bu...

Looking over the comments section of an old post, I realised that I had yet to make good on a promise to " flesh out my scepticism rega...

Over on the aguanomics blog, David Zetland has a post arguing that the concept of Daylight Savings Time (DST) is "rubbish". He s...

This coming in a few days late, but Rob Stavins continues with his series of excellent posts on environmental economics and policy instrum...

Supplies, supplies. (See what I did there?) So back home, more and more people are cottoning on to the fact that the local water situation...