Launched in 2005 by economists John Whitehead and Tim Haab, Environmental Economics—also known as The Cromulent Economics Blog—was created to “bring economic thinking to environmental issues in a fun, casual way that is accessible to non-academic audiences”.
Over nearly two decades, the blog grew into a reliable and engaging resource, debuting with a promise to deliver accessible content including opinion pieces, current-event analyses, literature summaries, teaching case studies, and practical economic tools like “rules of thumb” and back-of-the-envelope calculations .
In its first ten years, Env-Econ.net amassed an impressive 9,294 posts, more than 28,600 comments, and over 4.4 million lifetime pageviews, averaging around 1,216 views per day.
Though activity has varied over time—with the blog enjoying recognition in the economics blogosphere (e.g., listed among the top 100 economics blogs in 2016) —Whitehead and Haab continue to share thoughtful posts including research insights, policy reflections, and personal reflections, maintaining the casual yet insightful tone that defines the Environmental Economics blog.
Update: This is the WordPress version of the Environmental Economics blog, previously hosted by Typepad from 2005 to 2025. Typepad shut down in September 2025 (with only a few weeks warning) and we tried to migrate everything to WordPress.
I *think* that we were able to migrate everything over but post authorship was not captured in the process. So, if you read a post from the old days you won’t know if John Whitehead or Tim Haab or a guest wrote the post. That is very upsetting. But, note that the tech department is to blame and the employees there are elderly and can make mistakes.
It took several months to figure out how to transfer the env-econ.net domain name from Network Solutions to WordPress and then figure out how to get the DNS record(?) recognized by WordPress. the old domain name now points to envecon.blog.
You might be able to find author attribution and other things that aren’t here at the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20250101000000*/www.env-econ.net.