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My new article for The Energy Collective is up: Hydraulic Fracking and Water Pollution . There's much debate about whether shale gas ...

A group of us at my university have decided to start a blog dedicated to tackling environmental issues from an economic perspective. Things...

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

From the Wikipedia page on Agricultural Policy : Some argue that nations have an interest in assuring there is sufficient domestic producti...

A few weeks ago, the South African government announced that it was appointing a team to reconsider the ban on the trade in rhino horn . In ...

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

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

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...

As should   be   clear from some of my previous posts, I think that some areas of our economy are in need of regulation; others distinctly ...

In the comments thread of the Meat and Veg(etarianism) post, I drew a parallel between the ethical treatment of animals and the banning of...

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Consider this a follow-up, of sorts, to my  Facts vs Beliefs  post... Going over what I had written there and then partaking in the commen...

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