My paper on the relationship between economic growth and carbon flux has been accepted by the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy. The paper uses data on land use and land cover change for 14 countries to investigate possible relationships between economic growth and the net release or absorption of carbon from land use changes. […]
Here’s a paper still in draft form, posted on SSRN, that I worked on a while back, and want to further revise for publication. Comments welcome! https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3013157
SSRN has just posted my new paper on land-to/from-atmosphere carbon flux and environmental Kuznets curves, at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3461033. This is part of the output of my recent faculty development leave from Wofford and a visiting scholar position at the Mises Institute.
This blog post by Timothy Terrell originally appeared on May 6, 2011 on the now-discontinued Market Process Blog, published by the Initiative for Public Choice and Market Process at the College of Charleston. A religion professor at my college recently gave a talk to economics seniors on the limitations of economics and the necessity of considering […]
This blog post by Timothy Terrell originally appeared on November 24, 2009 on the now-discontinued Market Process Blog, published by the Initiative for Public Choice and Market Process at the College of Charleston. A New York court has decided that the state may seize privately owned land in Brooklyn under the eminent domain power for the […]
This blog post by Timothy Terrell originally appeared on February 23, 2010 on the now-discontinued Market Process Blog, published by the Initiative for Public Choice and Market Process at the College of Charleston. President Obama’s health insurance reform outlined Monday would, among many other things, create a Health Insurance Rate Authority, which “would provide an annual report […]
This blog post by Timothy Terrell originally appeared on May 15, 2010 on the now-discontinued Market Process Blog, published by the Initiative for Public Choice and Market Process at the College of Charleston. Three Democratic senators are considering capping ATM fees at 50 cents. The CNNMoney.com writer notes that a likely result would be a smaller number […]
This blog post by Timothy Terrell originally appeared on December 30, 2009 on the now-discontinued Market Process Blog, published by the Initiative for Public Choice and Market Process at the College of Charleston. Today the United States International Trade Commission imposed tariffs on Chinese steel pipe, largely used in the oil and gas industry. […]
I came across a story that made the rounds in national news recently: a 7-year-old’s lemonade stand in New York that was shut down by state health officials for failure to have a permit. The stand was located at his parents’ home, which was near county fairgrounds. The story attracted media attention partly because the incident was seen as […]
In North Korea in the mid-1990s, a devastating famine induced by government policies killed maybe 10 percent of the population. Stories emerged of cannibalism. Though localized famines may still be occurring, things seem to be changing for the better. Apparently, North Korea has adopted some market reforms, and it is showing up in satellite photographs as […]