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<p><font size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b>January</b></i></font><font
size="+2" face="Calibri"><i><b> 25, 2024</b></i></font></p>
<font face="Calibri"><i>[ The Rundown: Chicago News Podcast -
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<font face="Calibri"><b>There’s climate change and then there’s
anxiety about climate change</b><br>
By Erin Allen<br>
Jan 16, 2024<br>
This Chicago winter is waffling between two extremes: unseasonably
warm and bitter cold. Either way, it’s getting harder to ignore
the evidence of climate change in our forecasts and extreme
weather, and that can bring up any number of hard feelings. <br>
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Libby Bachhuber is a licensed clinical social worker and
therapist, and she wants to give people a space to process their
“eco anxiety” by hosting “Climate Cafes” around town. She recently
collaborated with Haven Denson, the Chicago Conservation Corps
Coordinator at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, to bring a
Climate Cafe to the museum. <br>
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In this episode, host Erin Allen talks to Denson and Bachhuber
about processing eco anxiety and leaning into hope for the future.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-rundown-dealing-with-the-anxiety-and-emotions-around-climate-change/6d90131b-45ba-40e7-a537-681ed874fa74">https://www.wbez.org/stories/the-rundown-dealing-with-the-anxiety-and-emotions-around-climate-change/6d90131b-45ba-40e7-a537-681ed874fa74</a>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ It would be smart to further regulate
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<b>‘We’re All Climate Economists Now’</b><br>
With climate change affecting everything from household finances
to electric grids, the profession is increasingly focused on how
society can mitigate carbon emissions and cope with their impact.<br>
By Lydia DePillis<br>
Lydia DePillis attended three days of back-to-back paper
presentations to absorb the latest economics research.<br>
Jan. 23, 2024<br>
In early January in San Antonio, dozens of Ph.D. economists packed
into a small windowless room in the recesses of a Grand Hyatt to
hear brand-new research on the hottest topic of their annual
conference: how climate change is affecting everything.<br>
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The papers in this session focused on the impact of natural
disasters on mortgage risk, railway safety and even payday loans.
Some attendees had to stand in the back, as the seats had already
been filled. It wasn’t an anomaly.<br>
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Nearly every block of time at the Allied Social Science
Associations conference — a gathering of dozens of
economics-adjacent academic organizations recognized by the
American Economic Association — had multiple climate-related
presentations to choose from, and most appeared similarly popular.<br>
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For those who have long focused on environmental issues, the
proliferation of climate-related papers was a welcome development.
“It’s so nice to not be the crazy people in the room with the last
session,” said Avis Devine, an associate professor of real estate
finance and sustainability at York University in Toronto, emerging
after a lively discussion.<br>
The conference, which is among the economics profession’s biggest,
tends to be a distillation of what the field is fixated on at any
given moment, and there’s plenty of evidence that on the heels of
the hottest year in recorded history, climate is in the spotlight.<br>
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There were papers on the local economic impact of wind turbine
manufacturing, the stability of electricity grids as they absorb
more renewable energy, the effect of electric vehicles on housing
choices, how wildfire smoke strains household finances. Others
analyzed the benefits of a sea wall for flood risk in Venice, the
economic drag of uncertainty about climate policy, the flow of
migrants displaced by extreme weather, how banks are exposed to
emissions regulations and the impact of higher temperatures on
factory productivity — just to name a few.<br>
According to the president of the American Finance Association,
Monika Piazzesi, fully half the papers submitted to her group were
about environmental, social and governance investing, broadly
defined — and she didn’t have nearly enough slots to include them
all. (Each association solicits and selects its own papers for
presentation at the conference.)<br>
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Janet Currie, the incoming president of the American Economic
Association, chose an environmental economist, Michael Greenstone
of the University of Chicago, to deliver the conference’s keynote
lecture. He focused on the global challenge of shifting to
renewable energy and the corresponding potential to alleviate air
pollution that is particularly deadly in developing countries like
India and Indonesia.<br>
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“This isn’t just a series of topics, but it’s a big, interrelated
problem,” Dr. Currie said. “Not only economists but everybody else
is realizing that this is a first-order problem, and it’s
affecting most people in some way. That inspires everyone to want
to work on it using their own particular lens.”<br>
Or as Heather Boushey, a member of the White House Council of
Economic Advisers, put it while moderating a panel on the
macroeconomics of climate change: “We’re all climate economists
now.”<br>
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It’s not as though economics had ignored climate change. Research
going back decades has forecast the toll that warming will take on
gross domestic product — an “externality,” in economics parlance —
and extrapolated from that a calculation for how much a ton of
carbon emissions should be taxed.<br>
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“There was a period of time in which at least some people would
think: ‘Carbon is an uninternalized externality. We know how to
address that,’” said Allan Hsiao, an assistant professor at
Princeton University. They were thinking, “Maybe the issue is
important,” he added, “but the underlying economics and tensions,
the not-so-obvious, subtle mechanisms, were not there.”<br>
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That perception has changed. A solution preferred by economists,
setting a cap on carbon emissions and creating a market for
trading permits, failed in 2009 under the weight of a weak
economy, administrative complexity and determined opposition. In
recent years, a different approach has emerged: granting
incentives for clean energy production, which pays more attention
to political realities and the equitable distribution of costs and
benefits, two themes that have also garnered more attention in
economics circles lately.<br>
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It has also created a collision of new questions, providing fodder
for a bonanza of dissertation topics. “Now people are realizing
that there’s just a lot of richness,” Dr. Hsiao explained.<br>
The surge of climate research in economics comes in part from
established figures who are finding ways to pursue related
questions as an offshoot of their own specialization. But much of
the enthusiasm emanates from newcomers to the field who are just
now building their publication records, learning how to wrangle
the universe of geospatial data from sources like weather
satellites, temperature sensors and historical rainfall records.<br>
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Take Abigail Ostriker, who is doing a postdoctoral fellowship at
Harvard before starting as an assistant professor at Boston
University this summer. She had soured on climate as an area of
focus while in college during the 2010s, after the death of
emissions-trading legislation in Congress ushered in a relatively
stagnant period for climate policy.<br>
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But she picked back up on it in graduate school upon realizing
that there was ample work in figuring out how societies can deal
with the effects of climate change — now a new normal, not a
faraway threat.<br>
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“I felt like climate change is here,” said Dr. Ostriker, who
earned her degree with a paper on how floodplain regulation in
Florida shifted home construction. “I’ve been turning my attention
to the adaptation side of things — where are we going to see these
consequences, and what policies are going to protect people from
the consequences, and are policies perhaps going to exacerbate
them in perverse ways?”<br>
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The emerging generation of climate economists isn’t just bringing
new ideas and energy. The specialization is drawing more women and
people of color into economics, helping to change the face of a
field that has long been notoriously white and male, said Paulina
Oliva, an associate professor at the University of Southern
California who helped select papers for the American Economic
Association’s program at the San Antonio conference.<br>
“That to me has been particularly exciting, because you know how
difficult it’s been for economics to have diversity,” Dr. Oliva
said.<br>
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To pull young researchers into the field, it helps that demand for
climate economists is booming — at colleges and universities, but
also government agencies, private companies and nonprofit think
tanks. A website that tracks job postings for academic economists
worldwide, EconJobMarket.org, shows that 5.5 percent of ads
mentioned the phrase “climate change” in 2023. That was up from
1.1 percent a decade earlier, said Joel Watson, a professor at the
University of California, San Diego, who runs the site.<br>
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Those opportunities include many in the U.S. government, which has
been embedding climate priorities in a range of agencies since
President Biden took office in 2021. Climate impacts are now part
of the cost-benefit analysis of new regulations, factored into
economic growth projections and reflected in budget forecasts.<br>
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The Inflation Reduction Act didn’t set a price on carbon, which
economists had advocated for decades. But Noah Kaufman, a research
scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy,
thinks its tools could be guided by economic analysis to transform
the energy system — while cushioning the impact for communities
that depend on fossil fuel production and making sure the benefits
of renewable energy investment are broadly shared.<br>
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“Economists need to catch up to the policymakers,” said Dr.
Kaufman, who did a stint working on climate policy at Mr. Biden’s
Council of Economic Advisers. “It’s unfortunate that we didn’t
produce this literature decades ago. But given that we didn’t,
it’s pretty exciting and a unique opportunity to try to be helpful
now.”<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/business/economy/climate-change-economics.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/business/economy/climate-change-economics.html</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/business/economy/climate-change-economics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE0.RmOW.TRu3teeR1_ZV&smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/23/business/economy/climate-change-economics.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE0.RmOW.TRu3teeR1_ZV&smid=url-share</a><br>
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<font face="Calibri"><i>[ Economics - a video discussion ]</i><br>
Jan 24, 2024<br>
<b>Did you know the government doesn’t spend your taxes?</b><br>
Welcome to the world of Modern Monetary Theory, a revolutionary
way of decoding our monetary systems—and making them work better
for us. I’m joined by Steven Hail, economist and lecturer, who
explains, using MMT, what we get wrong about money, taxes,
inflation and even currency. Steven reveals how the notion of
states not being able to afford certain necessities—like
education, health, the green transition—is nonsense, explaining
how the supply of resources impacts our economy, not running a
deficit. Alongside debunking a range of money myths, he also
reveals the fascinating history of taxation as a means to create a
citizenry and their dependence on a centralised state. <br>
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This is a technical episode, but Steven’s explanations are clear
and concise, and we successfully cover a lot of ground to uncover
the real relationships between governments, markets and the
monetary system they swear by.<br>
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Episodes referenced include my interviews with: <br>
Fadhel Kaboub: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/1XmCz9Xf79c?si=odQ0u">https://youtu.be/1XmCz9Xf79c?si=odQ0u</a>...<br>
Jason Hickel: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/isjWWCRBJBk?si=F0eJP">https://youtu.be/isjWWCRBJBk?si=F0eJP</a>...<br>
Kate Raworth: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://youtu.be/n7jjlKoLuCY?si=o9RXq">https://youtu.be/n7jjlKoLuCY?si=o9RXq</a>...<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">00:00 Teaser<br>
00:45 Introduction<br>
01:18 Guest Introduction: Stephen Hale and Modern Monetary
Theory<br>
03:52 Understanding Monetary Systems and Economic Growth<br>
10:39 The Misconceptions about Money and Finance<br>
19:30 The Importance of Real Resources in Economic Transition<br>
21:14 The Role of Taxation in Monetary Systems<br>
29:41 The Future of Economic Systems: Post-Growth Economy<br>
31:37 Understanding Government Spending and Inflation<br>
37:00 The Birth and Death of Currency<br>
40:36 The Economy and Biophysical Reality<br>
46:18 The Impact of U.S. Dollar Hegemony on Global Monetary
Systems<br>
56:20 The Future of Monetary Systems and Global Power Dynamics<br>
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<i>[ "The Big Myth" of marketplace economics - true story of false
idea ]</i><br>
</font> <font face="Calibri"><b>Naomi Oreskes: Politics,
propaganda, and free market economics</b><br>
Matthew Geleta<br>
Oct 5, 2023 Paradigm Podcast Full Length Episodes<br>
Naomi is a Harvard professor of the history of science, and an
affiliated professor of Earth and planetary sciences. She’s a
leading voice on the role of science in society, the reality of
anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in
blocking climate action.<br>
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#propaganda #economics #politicalscience #capitalism #freemarket
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Episode links, show notes and bonus content here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.matthewgeleta.com/">https://www.matthewgeleta.com/</a><br>
Make a one-off donation here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bit.ly/donate-to-paradigm">https://bit.ly/donate-to-paradigm</a><br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri">0:00:00 Myth of the Free Market<br>
0:03:15 Adam Smith vs regulation<br>
0:08:55 Bad incentives vs bad actors<br>
0:28:40 Arguments for and against regulation<br>
0:34:25 Are free markets more fair?<br>
0:44:10 Distrust in government as a cause of free market
thinking<br>
0:53:00 Meme theory of free market thinking<br>
0:57:50 Ayn Rand & propaganda<br>
1:01:00 Advice for people in positions of power<br>
1:09:00 The Entrepreneurial State<br>
1:14:20 Book recommendations<br>
1:16:50 Advice for scientists<br>
1:18:00 Who should represent humanity to an AI
superintelligence?<br>
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<i>[The news archive - Ronald Reagan spoke plainly - one can see
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<font face="Calibri"> <font size="+2"><i><b>January 25, 1984 </b></i></font>
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<font face="Calibri"> </font> January 25, 1984: In his State of the
Union Address, President Ronald Reagan says something that would be
considered highly controversial by the right wing today:<br>
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"...[L]et us remember our responsibility to preserve our older
resources here on Earth. Preservation of our environment is not a
liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense."<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4">http://youtu.be/TdMTTlpfNP4</a>
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