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I've often panned the idea that commodity prices have been greatly influenced by so-called financialization---the emergence of tradab...

While preparing a lecture for the  4 th  Berkeley Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics , I returned to contemplating the re...

Two years ago when we started this blog, the Midwest was going through a major drought and ended up eaking out just above 123 bushels per a...

Futures prices for corn have been decreasing a lot - for example the December 2014 contract for corn has decreased by more than 25% between ...

For some reason, the topic of adaptation can sometimes turn me into a grumpy old man. Maybe it’s because I’ve sat through hours of presenta...

I've had the pleasure of working with a team of brilliant people on the American Climate Prospectus: Economic Risks in the United States...

EPA announced this week the Clean Power Plan  to reduce carbon emissions of coal fired power plants by 30% by 2030 (relative to 2005 levels)...

Economists like to emphasize how people and businesses will adapt to climate change.  On a geological scale the world is warming very f...

As a general rule, people like to take credit when good things happen to them, but blame bad luck when things go wrong. This probably helps...

There has been a lot of chatter over the last few years about the purported African growth "miracle" -- the stylized fact that ...