Monday, June 13, 2011

The Oikos archives

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Welcome to the archives of the Oikos blog. Oikos is a blog I authored from 2005 to 2009, focussing on environmental economics and environmen...
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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Some quick thoughts on the Oz emissions trading scheme

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We have a good idea now of what the so-called Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme is going to look like, after the Government and Opposition h...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Ken Henry on tax reform

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If the tax structure from early last century prevailed today, we would have to raise $40 billion from excise and $230 billion from tariffs t...
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Friday, October 16, 2009

Climate Change Blog Action Day

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Apparently today is Blog Action Day for Climate Change and I thought I'd throw it open to my wonderful blog readers. I find myself alte...
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Thursday, October 08, 2009

What's the Opposition's climate policy?

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I saw Maclolm Turnbull interviewed the other night saying that he supported emissions trading and reminding people that emissions trading w...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Red sky in the morning...

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Strange weather in Australia recently: record high winter temperatures, bushfires in spring, hail the size of cricket balls overnight and we...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Economics and supermarket checkout lines

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I remember reading a nice exposition of the efficient markets hypothesis on Andrew Leigh's blog a while back: So if we believe shoppers...
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Dealing with uncertainties in carbon price

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The main difference between a carbon tax (emissions tax) and an emissions trading scheme is this. With a carbon tax, the price of emitting a...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Stimulus payments can kill you

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Yes, those $900 cheques from Uncle Kevin can kill. That’s the finding of a new study in the Bulletin on Aging and Health : Many studies fin...
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