Which makes me wonder, what is the longest running unchanged price in Japan?*
* for something regular, not those carrots from the mujin hanbai
When he removed his gloves, which was rarely, you could see his hands, too.
For the perfect experience, I feel you should revise the name of your hub to /pernickety.
I’d read that paper
BIOECON Conference #27
“Economics, Finance and Nature Based Risks”
Call for submissions is now available. The conference is at St John’s, Cambridge Uni, 6th-8th of Sept 2026.
www.bioecon-network.org/pages/27th_2...
Keynotes: Pr. Jennifer Alix-Garcia (Oregon State) and Pr. Robin Burgess (LSE)
What’s wrong with the other 20%?
In Environmental and Resource Economics for March: nations incur losses if they tackle climate change in a non-cooperative and self-interested manner. Thomas Eichner & Rüdiger Pethig revisit scope for global cooperation when countries are not completely self-interested. #EAERE
Wuhuu, Publication Alert! 📣 My first, first-author article (and first chapter of my dissertation), ‘Farmer Identity and Risk Preferences in Farmers' Choices Between Public and Private Agri-Environmental Contracts’, is now published #openaccess in #QOpen. 🔑🔒 1/9
This is great news. Finland to restore marshlands, which will (1) act as an natural barrier to deter a Russian invasion, (2) be a carbon sink to slow down climate change, (3) protect biodiversity. Superb!
Well, I knew Japan had coal mines but I still hadn’t expected the Karst landscapes of Yamaguchi ken, let alone the caves of Akiyoshido.
Earthquake refugee camp [バラック, ‘barakku’] on the Imperial Palace plaza, Tokyo, 1923.
When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms:
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Quite like the idea if it applies to the US too
In Environmental and Resource Economics for March: using Europe's carbon trading system as a case study, Fabio Di Dio & Lorenzo Frattarolo investigate how environmental regulation affects the impact of macroeconomic shocks. #EAERE #EconSky
Middlemost estimate suggested median to me, and would match the vibe of that graph above
In 2000, Ted Chiag published a short story in Nature that started like this.
It’s been on my mind a lot these days.
Definitely recommend it and Chiang’s science fiction if you don’t know it already.
There's another view that the IEA knows its predictions are wrong and doesn't expect anyone to take them seriously, but it also understands how it is funded.
Markus Englund built a tool for identifying repetitive sequences in scientific datasets! Read up here: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...
Curated?
there i was, thinking about a piece defending the EU ETS, and the big boss has already done it:
"Few policies have done more to combat climate change than the European Union’s emissions trading system."
gift link via @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
As I understand it, to do this amazing operation, the delicate robotics need to be shipped carefully to the patient’s hospital, then setup and thoroughly tested by an expert technician then packed and shipped back afterwards. Wouldn’t it be quicker, easier and cheaper to ship out a surgeon?
Plenty of chips behind the dashboard and under the bonnet , so don’t worry.
Robots discover the tragedy of the commons.
Time to get into grounds maintenance
TIL index Malmquist (economist) had a famous father, bias Malmquist (astronomer)
🗃️ In the first part of three articles, Tsz Ho (Brian) Wong explores how to use NDLJP's digital collections to reconstruct the biographies of little known historical figures 📜 🏺 ⛩️ #digitalhumanities #history #historicalfigures #Japan #coding #academicsky
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digitalorientalist.com/2025/02/11/u...
Reimbursing gas-fried plants for the cost of emission permits totally eliminates the point of having the EU's Emission Trading System in the first place. But I guess that's the goal.
You’d prefer detrain?
In March's Environmental and Resource Economics:
Ilona Dielen, Patrice Bougette & Christophe Charlier calculate that delays in introducing emissions regulation created by a European a lorry cartel increased average infant hospital admissions by 12–18 cases per 1000 births.
buff.ly/EeOe293
