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Environmental and Urban Economics
May 8, 2008, 3:33 pm, 289023
Suppose you are the budget planner ( a part time job?) for some small California town. To run a balanced budget over time, your present discounted revenues (collected mainly from property taxes) must look roughly like your present discounted flow of expenditures (mainly schools and cops and infrastructure). Can ...
May 6, 2008, 1:33 pm, 287511
Will Harvard's Economics students try to compete with these anthro majors? Will a sacrifice of Greg M's texts placate the gods?
News
Eliot Awakens To Dead Animal
Residents find goat carcass left in front of Eliot House on Saturday morning
Published On 5/6/2008 1:43:02 AM
By CHARLES ...
News
Eliot Awakens To Dead Animal
Residents find goat carcass left in front of Eliot House on Saturday morning
Published On 5/6/2008 1:43:02 AM
By CHARLES ...
May 6, 2008, 1:33 pm, 287510
Science 2 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5876, pp. 616 - 617
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154539
Policy Forum
ECONOMICS:
Linking Natural Resources to Slow Growth and More Conflict
C. N. Brunnschweiler1* and E. H. Bulte2
The appreciation for natural resources as a driver of economic development has undergone ...
Vol. 320. no. 5876, pp. 616 - 617
DOI: 10.1126/science.1154539
Policy Forum
ECONOMICS:
Linking Natural Resources to Slow Growth and More Conflict
C. N. Brunnschweiler1* and E. H. Bulte2
The appreciation for natural resources as a driver of economic development has undergone ...
May 6, 2008, 3:33 am, 287216
Each morning I study the New York Times weather map to see what is the weather in all of the cities where my family lives and in cities that I used to work in and cities where I almost joined their University's faculty.
Things change. When I lived ...
Things change. When I lived ...
May 1, 2008, 1:33 pm, 285129
How much of suburban growth is due to developers seeking the path of least resistance? Center cities are densely populated and thus there are many potential protectors of the status quo. While the status quo is a known commodity (and all change is bad), in center city ...
May 1, 2008, 1:33 pm, 285128
I wish I could collect student level data on how UCLA students vote on this "green tax" proposal. $4 = one trip to Starbucks. Who is willing to vote this in return for a rather vague environmental payoff? Ideally, I could collect data on who votes yes ...
April 30, 2008, 1:33 am, 284107
Are you an academic who needs some praise for your work? Or are you well aware that your work kicks ass and you don't need any applause? Permit me to reveal my type. I'm an insecure guy who needs a pat on the back. That's why I went to the ...
April 28, 2008, 1:33 am, 282779
My UCLA colleague Sandy Black wrote a great Harvard thesis. Google Scholar says that the paper has already earned 292 cites; Do Better Schools Matter? Parental Valuation of Elementary Education, SE Black - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1999. In a nutshell, she looked at home price differentials for ...
April 27, 2008, 1:33 am, 282469
How do you judge quality in your field? If you make airplanes, quality may mean that your planes rarely crash or fall apart. If you make hotdogs, quality may mean that people like how they taste and rarely have stomach problems the next day. In art, a ...
April 24, 2008, 1:33 pm, 281276
Behavioral economics swept through UCLA yesterday. Richard Thaler was on campus to give a speech. Somehow inertia and procrastination affected the turnout. The event was held in a room that seats 400 people but only 60 people were there. Nobody in the Economics Department was told about ...