Environmental Economics
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Category: Weblogs
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Bear with me, this might take a minute to get to the point. In 2005, John and I started Env-Econ with the following mission: The Environmental Economics blog is dedicated to the dissemination of economists’ views on current environmental and natural resource issues. We hope this blog will help bring economists’ views on environmental issues…
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From The Chronicle: A university librarian who is being sued after writing a critical blog post about a scholarly publisher is finding support from professors and librarians around the world. In 2010, Dale Askey, now a librarian at McMaster University, in Ontario, wrote a blog post about Edwin Mellen Press on his personal Web site,…
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From the inbox: Hi Tim and John, I just wanted to let you know that I did a (pretty lighthearted) study to work out the Top 100 Finance Blogs, and Environmental Economics got in. You can check out the article I wrote about it here: http://suitpossum.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-100-top-anglo-saxon-finance-blogs.html. I'm an ex-derivatives broker, and got a book coming…
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From the inbox (from a real person): Did I tell you I often visit your blog on environmental economics? :) My reply: … keep reading the blog. There is a slight chance you might find something useful someday!
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Mark Thoma: Peter Dorman: In the Blogosphere, Econ Looks Macro, econospeak: I’m mainly a microeconomist. There are lots of folks like me. I don’t know the percentages, but surely microeconomists make up a large proportion of the global econ profession. Lots of important ideas and empirical discoveries are flowing through the micro pipeline all the…
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From the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession webpage: The Winter 2012 CSWEP Newsletter is now available online. Jennifer Imazeki has organized terrific articles around the theme of Using Social Media in Economics. The articles an introduction by Imazeki, "the impact of economics blogs" (McKenzie and Ozler), "teaching with economics blogs"…
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Why should you care?
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From the inbox, Zetland: This post took me a long time — I had to go to Egypt, collect garbage on the beach, shoot underwater video AND interview a scuba instructor… So it may be interesting :) http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/01/garbage-in-egypt.html Here is the video:
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Via Chronicle.com: In an age of sophisticated social media and rapidly evolving technologies, blogs would seem to be about as sexy as a pair of sensible shoes. Yet as simple as they may be, blogs have also proven to be valuable to economists debating principles and policy, and to faculty looking to breathe life into…
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Jason B. Jones at ProfHacker: The micropayment site Flattr is trying to get November 29 to catch on as “Pay a Blogger Day,” both as a marketing campaign* and an effort to recognize all the free content that people contribute daily to the web. I learned about it from Ernesto Priego’s fine post at HASTAC,…
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