A new climate change treaty must plug three gaps: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the absence of…
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led…
The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of…
We examine the value of terroir, which refers to the special characteristics of a place that impart unique qualities to the wine produced…
A century ago, in 1911, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its path-breaking decision in the monopolization case against the Standard Oil…
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…
Federal, state, and local
governments use a variety of incentives to induce consumer adoption of
hybrid-electric vehicles. We study the…
Book abstract: Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy, edited by…
This paper provides (for the nonspecialist) a highly streamlined discussion of the main issues, and controversies, in the design of climate…