The University of Victoria economics department has provided us with two – count 'em, 2 – new economics blogs in the last few months.
David Giles' Econometrics Beat has been up for a while now, and he is to be congratulated for writing a blog on the required course that almost all economics students would much rather avoid if they could. (The reason they can't is that econometrics is incredibly important. You students out there: trust me on this.)
And today I learn that Chris Auld has just started his own blog. It's still new, but he has already come up with (among others) this gem about how David Suzuki simply doesn't understand what is arguably the most important concept in environmental economics.
The Canadian econ blogroll on the right-hand side has been updated – attentive readers will have noticed that David Giles' blog had already been included. Go read them.
Update: And yet another! HEC-Montréal's Martin Coiteux has been blogging for a year or so. Those of you who can read French would do well to check it out.
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” not the only creatures to affect, for better or worse, the global environment”
Over long time scales, I agree. On short times scales, we are the only ones.
“… they’ll be, at best, imperfectly informed choices”
Oh, no doubt. But it’s the case where we choose to disregard or ignore what (limited) information we do have about the consequences of our choices that I’m interested in. But that isn’t limited to the environment. People make demonstrably dumb policy choices all the time on all sorts of issues, so I suppose it’s really a more general problem.
Personally I’d say that on global warming McKitrick is to climatology what Suzuki is to economics. Neither is qualified to opine on climate models, and in their respective areas of ignorance both should be ignored.
On a positive note, Suzuki’s comments on economics are certainly than Margaret Atwood’s. Maybe the G&M could put her on the back burner for a while and let Dr. S. have some airtime…please….