Environmental Economics

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Find Out:

• about the Cap and Trade Market for carbon emissions is a failure and would only work in a micro-management setting.

• why its best to implement a carbon tax.

• the difference between luxury emissions and survival emissions and why it maybe difficult for China and India to reduce their carbon.

• how Jason’s depiction of a low probability-high severity event influenced Janet Yellen to take action on climate change.

• if we are acting rationally or irrationally toward the environment.

• how we can exploit rationality ‘for the good’.

• how, over the last 30 years, we have become averse to just about everything.

• how we can take advantage of peoples’ status quo to increase their contribution of paying a carbon tax.

• how designing the right system can nudge people to do the right thing – just like soft paternalism.

• how Jason sought inspiration about rationality from other disciplines, such as English literature and music composition, rather than from economics.

• how Jason uses music as a form of escapism.

• about the inspiration Jason gets for writing songs from economics.

• who the talented people are behind the creation of Jason’s amazing artwork and photography.

• about the concerts that Jason Shogren will be playing at each year.

• about Jason’s hitch-hiking experience in Ireland in 1985 from the Giants Causeway and down along the West Coast (now known as the Wild Atlantic Way).

• about Jason theoretical thought process regarding endogenous risk and how he applies it to different environmental risks.

• what Jason would do if he was once again Economic Advisor to the US government.
  a little about the Endangered Species Act.

• what I saw on Professor Shogren’s whiteboard when I spoke to him on Skype. Hint: It’s his next economic model.

• about the 25% chance you have in meeting Jason in Centennial, Wyoming – it involves the population and the number of pubs!

• about Jason’s plastic Nobel Prize keychain and where he hangs it.

Here is my favorite Shogren short story and here is Shogren live.

Hat tip: David Zetland