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  • Is that a cell phone or a walkie talkie?

    http://www.seattlepi.com/comics-and-games/fun/Mark_Trail/2013-10-18/ Nothing to lose? I'm no attorney, but recording a conversation without permission might be illegal. But nevermind, like an idiot, Mark let the battery on his giant cell phone run down before he planted it. So, Mark is going to bluff an obnoxious, and potentially dangerous if you ask me, Big Oil Company lobbyist…

  • Just for Tim

    And anyone else from Balmer: Maryland native Scott Van Pelt has a schtick every time he invites ESPN baseball analyst (and fellow Terrapin) Tim Kurkjian onto his radio show: he closes by saying something in Ballimerese and making Kurkjian burst out into furious, high-pitched laughter. We've compiled these moments into one supercut, which you can…

  • I’d say that someone’s Nobel Prize candidacy has gone from dubious to hopeless

    Jodi Beggs: I have no idea how to even begin to guess who is actually going to win, so the best I can do is to say that my favorite economists on the list are the following, not necessarily for particularly well-developed reasons: Jerry Hausman – I took graduate econometrics with Jerry, and he actually…

  • Env-Econ: The Nobel Nomination

    In response to the overwhelming grassroots interest we've received we have in being nominated for a Nobel Prize in honor of our contribution to the promulgation of environmental economics in the blogosphere, I've done some research (i.e. I Googled 'Nobel Prize in Economic Scence nomination'–I would've Google 'Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory…

  • We can’t claim to be Nobel Prize winners, but I did sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night

    Hey John, looks like we have some competition for our FORTHCOMING encyclopedia titled "Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, available for pre-order on Amazon for the low price of $71.20 (with a picture above). And the competition comes from "Nobel Peace Prize winner"* and musician extraordinaire J. Shogren. *…"the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was awarded…

  • Hey Jim, should we be worried about our policy professionals?

    This morning we sent the following to the RESECON e-mail list: This is just our friendly (but late) beginning-of-the-semester reminder/request to take advantage of the myriad resources available at THE Environmental Economics blog (www.env-econ.net) in your economics and environment economics classes or just for your own personal pleasure.  John (Whitehead) and I have been at…

  • Some people are bigger than others (and others are just plain small)

    From the inbox in response to those things I've done (this and that): Fair enough.  I'll enrich that discussion in the next version. Thanks, Arik I apologized for being cranky and Arik said "no apology necessary." And now I feel rather like a turd.