by Henry Oliner | Jan 3, 2023 | Economics, Environmental, Global Warming
A Review of the book , “Escape from Model Land” in The WSJ explains the limits of models in determining policy. My Life as a Quant was written decades ago about an academic with a Phd in math and physics hired by a hedge fund to construct risk models. He...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 31, 2022 | Economics, Environmental, Politics
While it is dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 it is spoken of as a climate bill. I am skeptical that it accomplishes either. Inflation is a mismatch between supply and demand. To fight inflation you can decrease demand or increase supply. Raising taxes on...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 25, 2019 | Environmental, Politics, Progressivism
From National Review, Kevin Williams’ China’s Population Problem: Governments always operate in ignorance, and authoritarian governments suffer from this more than the governments of liberal societies. That is because in liberal societies, the spontaneous...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 5, 2018 | Environmental
from Holman Jenkins at The Wall Street Journal, Press Is the Enemy of Climate Unfortunately the U.S. media have become a positive hindrance to public understanding. Consider that systemization of banality known as Axios. Last week it told its presumably politically...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 26, 2016 | Environmental, Global Warming
Matt Ridley brings some objectivity to an issue where it is sorely lacking- Climate Change It is a long post and is a compilation of a few of his articles: excerpts: The climate change debate has been polarized into a simple dichotomy. Either global warming is “real,...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 27, 2015 | Environmental, Global Warming
From The Truth Wears Off by Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker: An excellent article on the publication bias- keep in mind that in order to be peer reviewed it has to be published- although up to a third of articles claimed to be peer reviewed in one of the IPCC report...
