https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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While some forms of comparative advantage might occur in the real world, Ricardo's theory, like so much of economics, abstracts away fundamental facts about the financial and biophysical aspects of development to such…
A superior alternative: Total Carbon Rationing https://carbonwatchdog.org/qa-carbon-rationing-explained/
This is my theory too. A friend of me noted that one positive thing about lock-down is the complete lack of FOMO (fear of missing out). Which seems particularly important at that age.
It's almost as if putting kids in a peer-pressure-cooker environment is a bad idea? I might be biased, I'm autistic and my high school experiences were abhorrent and ended up scarring me for life. Primary school and…
Seems like a guilt-by-association climate action hit piece -- and of course it's written an economist*. *: https://www.themintmagazine.com/nordhauss-nobel-prize-is-saf...
I fully approve of this.
Of course government can decide private property law. Slaves used to be private property. And you can't do whatever you want once you own a piece of land, see environmental laws etc.
Is there a single scrap of evidence for the efficacy all these anecdotes? Where are the all the downsides?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
Dear Mr. User, a whole year has passed, in order to keep up with the latest trends we now require you to give permission for mining your user data via our new microservice every time you enter our site, we have made…
While some forms of comparative advantage might occur in the real world, Ricardo's theory, like so much of economics, abstracts away fundamental facts about the financial and biophysical aspects of development to such…
A superior alternative: Total Carbon Rationing https://carbonwatchdog.org/qa-carbon-rationing-explained/
This is my theory too. A friend of me noted that one positive thing about lock-down is the complete lack of FOMO (fear of missing out). Which seems particularly important at that age.
It's almost as if putting kids in a peer-pressure-cooker environment is a bad idea? I might be biased, I'm autistic and my high school experiences were abhorrent and ended up scarring me for life. Primary school and…
Seems like a guilt-by-association climate action hit piece -- and of course it's written an economist*. *: https://www.themintmagazine.com/nordhauss-nobel-prize-is-saf...
I fully approve of this.
Of course government can decide private property law. Slaves used to be private property. And you can't do whatever you want once you own a piece of land, see environmental laws etc.
Is there a single scrap of evidence for the efficacy all these anecdotes? Where are the all the downsides?