Two-week UN climate change summit kicks off in Poland, to flesh out details of the 2015 Paris Accord. Politicians have dithered about what action to take, in part diverted by the disinformation spread by fossil fuel companies.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
Brexitonomics
A short discussion of why economists’ efforts to model the impact of Brexit leave a lot to be desired.
Fast Fashion: Commons Committee Questions Business Model
House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee conducts hearing on waste in the fashion industry – particularly, ‘fast fashion’.
Waste Not, Want Not
Schools waste $5 million a day in uneaten food. Here’s how Oakland is reinventing the cafeteria.
Amazon Wins!!!
Tallying how much Amazon extracted from taxpayers with its second headquarters bake off.
Corbyn Isn’t Seizing the Moment – Because His Labour Party Simply Isn’t Radical Enough
From economic and climate policy, to Brexit and constitutional reform, Corbyn’s Labour doesn’t yet have the depth of ideas to capitalise on the government’s disarray.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/30/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Trump and Xi, NAFTA, Sanders Institute, Warren, California Democrats, “people power,” purchasing managers index, commodities drop, blockchain, Tesla, Green New Deal, coal, Grinnell student workers, LNG on the tundra, vaccination
New Research: Australia’s Immigration System Undercuts Workers
Drawing lessons from Australia’s immigration policies.
American Life Expectancy Continues to Fall: Rise in Suicides, Overdose Deaths the Big Culprit
America’s falling life expectancy is a symptom of rising social distress.
Machine Learning and Economics
Some economists contend that machine learning and AI can improve economics.
Breaking Down What Climate Change Will Do, Region by Region
A brief recap of the newly-released Federal report on climate change.
2:00PM Water Cooler 11/29/2018
Today’s Water Cooler: Booker and tear gas, Sanders voting record, Pelosi, Hakeem Jeffries, elites and trust, Democrats and demographics, jobless claims, personal income, housing, Facebook, Amazon, bee brains, mitochondrial DNA, internships, the left in Red States, Internet of Sh*t, Louise Bourgeois
