negative externalities
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On Nobel laureate Linus Pauling’s contribution to the climate crisis.
When scientists behave unethically, more people distrust science.
academic research, academic science, Art Robinson, Arthur Robinson, book, book review, cancer, capitalism, carbon emissions, climate change, climate crisis, climate denial, climate deniers, climate science, conspiracy theories, David Lipsky, education, environmentalism, fossil fuel apologists, fossil fuels, global warming, harmful incentives, history, incentive structure, junk science, Linus Pauling, negative externalities, Parrot and Igloo, Parrot and Igloo book, pollution, research fraud, research scientists, science, science denial, science deniers, scientific fraud, statistical analysis, statistical fraud, statistical manipulation, statistics, taxing negative externalities, The Parrot and the Igloo, vitamin C
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On taxing robots.
Automation is making the world worse, but the real problem is financial inequality, not robots.
a tax on wealth, automation, charity, cost of pollution, dishwashers, economic proposal, economic recovery, economic stimulus, Eduardo Porter, Eduardo Porter editorial, employer cartel, end of Great Depression, inequality, intentional inefficiency, low salary, low unemployment, negative externalities, New York Times editorial, parenting, politics, recession, robot tax, robotics, robots, robots taking jobs, shared costs, small town recovery plan, stagnant wages, tax wealth, taxing automation, taxing robots, the economics of automation, the politics of automation, tragedy of the commons, unemployment, wealth begets wealth, wealth tax, welfare, which jobs can be replaced by machines, why aren’t wages rising, work requirements, World War II
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On suboptimal optimization.
If you’re hoping that self-driving cars will prevent traffic jams, think again. They might be designed to make traffic worse.
Adam Millard-Ball, AI, artificial intelligence, atomic weapons, automation, capitalism, carbon costs, carbon emissions, carbon emissions from driving, carbon tax, climate change, cost benefit analysis, cost to park, did Heisenberg know linear algebra, driving, economics, finite, finite mathematics, general education requirements, global warming, graffiti that confuses self-driving cars, Heisenberg, Heisenberg and linear algebra, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, intentionally causing traffic jams, linear algebra, linear optimization, math, math panic, matrices, matrix, maximizing utility, minimizing costs, negative externalities, nuclear weapons, parking, parking fees, parking in cities, philosophy, pollution, pollution is free, pricing carbon, pricing externalities, public utility, quantum mechanics, robot cars, robot drivers, self-driving car, self-driving cars causing traffic jams, taxing carbon, taxing emissions, taxing pollution, teaching math, traffic, traffic laws, traffic patterns, trolley problem, university degree, university policies, university policy, usage fees, Werner Heisenberg, why didn’t Germany have atomic weapons, why is it free to pollute, why isn’t pollution taxed
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On fairness (and how we treat the utility monster).
How do you measure someone’s capacity for joy? And what does that say about our opiate epidemic?
animal welfare, Betham, competetive equilibrium, distribution of resources, distribution of wealth, economics, equality, evolution, fairness, heroin, heroin epidemic, human evolution, mass incarceration, Milton Friedman, moral philosophy, natural selection, negative externalities, opiate abuse, opiate epidemic, opportunity, Pareto optimal, Pareto optimality, political philosophy, survival of the fittest, tax policy, utilitarian, utilitarianism, utility monster, utility theory, War on Drugs
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On free-market capitalism, political spending, and Jane Mayer’s ‘Dark Money.’
Everybody knew that politicians could be bought… well, academics can be, too.
campaign finance, climate change, Dark Money, David Koch, economic policy, environmental regulations, Evicted, fiscal policy, free markets, global warming, government intervention, Jane Mayer, Koch brothers, libertarianism, Matthew Desmond, negative externalities, political spending, progressive taxation, Robert Reich, Saving Capitalism, subsidies for the rich, tax, tragedy of the commons
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