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Ben Muse
"Economics and Alaska”
May 3, 2008, 10:40 pm, 286234
A few days I posted on a visit to King Island by the U.S. Revenue Cutter Corwin in 1881 (A Visit to King Island, July 12, 1881). The Corwin, under Captain Calvin Hooper, also visited in 1880. Hooper's report was...
April 22, 2008, 1:19 am, 279447
The U.S. bought Alaska in 1867, but it really didn't have much of a presence there, and especially not in more remote areas like the Bering Sea, for many years. The Treasury sent a revenue cutter into the Bering Sea...
April 19, 2008, 6:06 pm, 278582
I've pulled various posts dealing with the Arctic and copied them into a new site called Arctic Economics. I'm going to use that weblog to explore the economics of global warming induced Arctic climate change.
April 18, 2008, 10:06 pm, 278466
In 2005 the President signed legislation that Congress hadn't passed, at least in part. The bill in question authorized money for transportation projects and earmarked a lot for particular projects. Sometime after Congress passed the legislation, and before the President...
April 9, 2008, 11:41 pm, 274169
Sport fishing isn't as popular as it used to be in the U.S. The Fish and Wildlife Service conducts national surveys of fishermen and hunters every five years. The surveys from 1991 to 2006 have been done in a consistent...
April 9, 2008, 12:48 am, 273675
What will we do for fun outdoors, as global warming increases average temperatures, rainfall, snowfall, and sea levels? John Whitehead at Environmental Economics reads the tea leaves in a series of three posts:
April 3, 2008, 1:49 am, 271256
Robert McGhee (The Last Imaginary Place. A Human History of the Arctic World) doesn't think the original Arctic peoples were modern Western conservationists:
April 2, 2008, 10:46 pm, 271232
Lots of explorers entered the Arctic and died there because - among other things - they couldn't find anything to eat. Sir John Franklin led two expeditions to disaster; on the first his followers ended up eating each other for...
March 25, 2008, 2:12 am, 266962
Hugo Ahlenius of the United Nations Environment Program summarizes trends in Antarctic tourism in recent years (Trends in Antarctic tourism). Here's the annotation for the figure:
March 21, 2008, 12:50 am, 265751
I liked the title of this one: The Economic Value of Teeth (Sherry Glied and Matthew Neidell, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13879, March 2008). Here's the abstract: