From Common Tragedies (More evidenceless econ bashing):
David Roberts doesn’t like Daniel’s new office.
While he admits that he doesn’t really know what the office does, his
“gut” tells him that it can’t be good becuase the staff consists of
“mainstream” economists (aka jerkoffs). These mainstream economists
pose a grave threat to humanity, partly because “they tend to
understate the cost of inaction, overstate the cost of action, [and]
rely too heavily on models that account poorly for efficiency and
innovation.” Fortunately a prescient cohort of superintellects headed
up by Joe Romm have calculated the true costs of climate
action and inaction, and mapped out the optimal sequence of investment
and innovation, which they will reveal to the world at some point in
the very near future, making all the mainstream economists look like
IDIOTS. Don’t get too comfortable Daniel!
Hey Grist, meet TerraPass:
This past few weeks has seen a resurgence of a form of self-defeating
economist-bashing that the green blogosphere likes to occasionally
indulge. (To be more precise, greens tend to be bipolar in their
treatment of economists. They love them when economic theory is
congenial to environmental goals, and loathe them at all other times.
Greens also tend to oddly personalize the topic, dividing economists
into “the good ones” and, I suppose, the hell-bound.)