From the inbox:
A new issue of Review of Environmental Economics and Policy has been made available:
Winter 2008; Vol. 2, No. 1
URL: http://reep.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol2/issue1/index.dtl?etoc
The first thing I always do is check out Kerry Smith's Reflections on the Literature column. Here are the opening lines:
Three "Reflections on the Literature" columns written in under a year—wow, I didn't know I had it in me! This was my first thought when I was reminded that a third column was due. I feel like a "virtual blogger." So in that spirit, I decided to look at the two environmental economics blogs that I ask my students to read to see how I might make this third column a little different.1
And here is footnote 1:
The blogs I am referring to are Tim Haab and John Whitehead's (www.env-econ.net) and Matt Kahn's Environmental and Urban Economics site (www.greeneconomics.blogspot.com).
Rock and roll! Yet, alas:
I found the inspiration I needed in Matt Kahn's postings in November 2006. He suggested in his environmental and urban economics blog that many of the most important questions in environmental economics are empirical; it is through the interaction of theory and what the data "tell us" that we make progress or begin to ask better questions. As a result of Matt's comment, I decided to present some new empirical work as part of my discussion.
