Wednesday, January 14, 2026

On the Economic Geography of Climate Change

A crucial aspect of human adaptation to climate change is geographic mobility. As a consequence, limitations to mobility will worsen the socioeconomic costs of climate change.

Links 10/11/2021

The Supply Chain Crisis: How We Got Here

On some of the key management practices and fads that produced dependence on extended and revealed-to-be-fragile supply chains.

Popularism and the Child Tax Credit

On the use and misuse of popularism as a tool to inform policy decisions.

Did Labor Action Over Vaccine Mandates Compel Southwest to Cancel Thousands of Flights?

The strange story of Southwest’s operational collapse this weekend

Links 10/10/2021

Major Insurers Running Billions of Dollars Behind on Payments to Hospitals and Doctors

Disputes between insurers and hospitals are nothing new. But this fight sticks more patients in the middle, worried they’ll have to pay unresolved claims.

Links 10/9/2021

Book Review: The ‘Mystery’ Illnesses Informed by Culture

Illness may be even less straightforward than you think.

Never Mind the Pandora Papers: Why Secrecy Still Rules in the UK

Thanks to poor drafting and a lack of enforcement, anti-secrecy legislation intended to make it clearer who owns UK companies isn’t working

2:00PM Water Cooler 10/8/2021

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Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion

A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.

Links 10/8/2021

UK Nurses Threaten to Strike After Government Offers Measly Below-Inflation Pay Rise

With vax mandates looming and industrial action on the table, the UK’s overstretched National Health Service could be in for a winter of even more discontent.

The Neverending Brexit: Flailing Johnson Set to Try to Renege on Commitment to Respect Good Friday Agreement

Boris Johnson is expected to eyepoke the EU by reneging on the Norhtern Ireland protocol, presumbly to distract from domestic shortages.