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Daily Archive for October 11th, 2010

Horse Trading, Corporatism and More

Posted in Politics on Oct 11th, 2010

This paper doesn’t prove anything, but it doesn’t exactly calm the nerves either: In this paper we demonstrate that personal connections amongst politicians, and between politicians and firms, have a significant impact on the voting behavior of U.S. politicians. We exploit a unique database linking politicians to other politicians, and linking politicians to firms, and […]

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Can the Doomsdayers Take Credit for Improving Environmental Conditions?

Posted in Environment on Oct 11th, 2010

In my Environmental Economics class, I spend considerable time walking through the history of doomsday beliefs and then tracing out how those predictions turned out. In almost every case, I show folks how environmental conditions have actually improved quite a bit since the views first were championed. An interesting question then is, what caused the […]

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