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Amplifying Oren Cass on a Carbon Tax, Part 1 of 2

My latest post at IER amplifies some of the points Oren Cass made in a fantastic essay he wrote (two years ago) on the case for a US carbon tax. (I just came across the essay recently.) Here’s an excerpt: Let me paraphrase Cass’s remarks to make sure the reader appreciates them. Cass was studying […]

“Ask Me Anything”

I agreed to do one of these things. Please clap. (I’ll be attentive on Tuesday, August 29, from 7pm – 8pm Eastern, and then I’ll check again the next day for any stragglers.)

My Talk on the Paris Climate Agreement

This mostly summarizes the articles I’ve posted here, but some of you might prefer to see me hamming it up.

Potpourri

==> Oren Cass says climate alarmists are the real science deniers. ==> Excellent advice from Jordan Peterson for all of you super-intellectuals. ==> A lot of people have wondered if the mechanism by which expanded ACA (Medicaid) coverage has been correlated with mortality, is through opioid addiction. This guy thinks it’s a tenuous link. ==> […]

Three Times Interventionists Moved the Goal Posts

At the Independent Institute’s blog I have 3 posts up: One Two Three In the third installment, make sure you don’t miss how slippery Ezra Klein was. For example: Cass recently summarized the Oregon results for his readers by writing, “In a randomized trial in Oregon that gave some individuals Medicaid while leaving others […]

The Private Production of Roads

My topic at EconLib. My favorite part: It is true that roads form part of a network and that it would be confusing and dangerous if the different owners had different rules, such as a green light sometimes meaning “go” on one road and “stop” on another. Yet in the private sector, all sorts […]

Clarifying Paris, Parts 1 and 2

The sequel to my post on the Paris Agreement is now up at IER. For your reference, here is Part 1 and now here is Part 2. In this latest article, I focus on the 2 degrees Celsius target, which is the centerpiece of the Paris Agreement. Some surprising stuff in here. For example: As […]

Murphy Triple Play

I don’t have time to do the time-stamp stuff on these. But they are all awesome; download them for when you’re on a road trip or something. One hint: There’s a surprise at the beginning of the Contra Krugman episode. ==> Contra Krugman ep. 92: I am flying solo and bring Dan Mitchell on to […]