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.
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Wednesday, January 14, 2026
On the Economic Geography of Climate Change
Topics: Environment, Global warming, Globalization, Guest Post, Income disparity
Posted by Lambert Strether at 9:55 am | 17 Comments »
Links 10/11/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:58 am | 245 Comments »
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.
Topics: Auto industry, Dubious statistics, Economic fundamentals, Globalization, Investment management, Japan, The destruction of the middle class
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:26 am | 73 Comments »
Popularism and the Child Tax Credit
On the use and misuse of popularism as a tool to inform policy decisions.
Topics: Dubious statistics, Guest Post, Media watch, Politics, Social policy, Social values
Posted by Yves Smith at 12:14 am | 19 Comments »
Did Labor Action Over Vaccine Mandates Compel Southwest to Cancel Thousands of Flights?
The strange story of Southwest’s operational collapse this weekend
Topics: Guest Post, Media watch, Pandemic, Politics
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:55 pm | 92 Comments »
Links 10/10/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 203 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Ridiculously obvious scams
Posted by Lambert Strether at 5:25 am | 36 Comments »
Book Review: The ‘Mystery’ Illnesses Informed by Culture
Illness may be even less straightforward than you think.
Topics: Guest Post, Health care, Science and the scientific method
Posted by Yves Smith at 5:01 am | 19 Comments »
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
Topics: Banana republic, Banking industry, Free markets and their discontents, Guest Post, Legal, Payment system, Politics, Regulations and regulators, Ridiculously obvious scams, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 4:22 am | 7 Comments »
2:00PM Water Cooler 10/8/2021
~ Today’s Water Cooler ~
Topics: Guest Post, Water Cooler
Posted by Lambert Strether at 2:00 pm | 122 Comments »
Mzukisi Qobo: The Old Mantra About Growth Has Reached Exhaustion
A perspective from the Global South on the end game for growth.
Topics: Africa, Economic fundamentals, Energy markets, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Guest Post, Health care, Income disparity, Macroeconomic policy, Politics, The dismal science
Posted by Yves Smith at 9:55 am | 14 Comments »
Links 10/8/2021
Topics: Guest Post, Links
Posted by Lambert Strether at 6:55 am | 182 Comments »
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.
Topics: Guest Post
Posted by Nick Corbishley at 6:48 am | 8 Comments »
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.
Topics: Brexit, Economic fundamentals, Europe, Free markets and their discontents, Globalization, Politics, The destruction of the middle class, UK
Posted by Yves Smith at 6:43 am | 54 Comments »




