Africa Must Make Tough Choices to Build Democracy
Lawrence Haddad started the year with provocative predictions. Below are my comments, knowing that in the end we will get most of it wrong anyway. The future always has the last laugh.
Research
An Economist’s View of the Oil Spill from Inside the White House
Early on the morning of April 21, 2010, a BP official called to alert me that a Gulf of Mexico rig under contract to BP suffered a major blowout, was still on fire, and some of its workers were missin
Reshaping the Energy Landscape
How do we grow the global supply of energy, make it more accessible to the poor, and at the same time cut carbon emissions to near zero? And how can physics contribute?
Linking Scientific Knowledge with Policy Action in Natural Resources Development.
Giving Green to Get Green? Incentives and Consumer Adoption of Hybrid Vehicle Technology
Federal, state, and local governments use a variety of incentives to induce consumer adoption of hybrid-electric vehicles.
Daring to be Different-and Right
The Kyoto Protocol is set to expire in 2012.
Designing Climate Mitigation Policy
This paper provides (for the nonspecialist) a highly streamlined discussion of the main issues, and controversies, in the design of climate mitigation policy.
A Pragmatic Global Climate Policy Architecture
Book abstract: Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy, edited by Ian W.H.
Demand Response Compensation, Net Benefits and Cost Allocation: Comments
FERC''s Supplemental Notice of Public Rulemaking addresses the question of proper compensation for demand response in organized wholesale electricity markets.
Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas? An Empirical Test of Marginal Cost Pricing
This article measures the extent to which prices exceed marginal costs in the U.S. natural gas distribution market during the period 1991–2007.
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