Environmental Economics

100 months of Environmental Economics!

Actually, it is 101. Somehow in my self-absorption I missed that we reached our 100th month of blogging at the end of September 2013 (I think I've "counted" [i.e., copied the archives list of months into MS Excel and took a look at the number of rows] correctly). 

Dang, I'm getting old.

Women in economics in the Chronicle of Higher Education

Kate Bahn ("a doctoral student in economics at the New School for Social Research and a writer and co-editor at LadyEconomist.com) in the Chronicle:

So the problem is really twofold: Women have been discouraged and excluded, and those who make an impact anyway have had their contributions discredited. Add these together, and economics has a long history of being a macho science as well as a dismal one.

So that’s the state of play. That said, women have made huge gains in the field over the past 40 years. According to the American Association of Economics’ Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP), 35 percent of new economics Ph.D.’s are women, up from about 7 percent in the 1970s.

Dig a little deeper, though, and the signs are less encouraging. ...

A disproportionate number of women remain stuck in certain subfields. In 2006, a study by the UK-based Centre for Economic Policy Research found that there is a great deal of path dependence in economics: Women are drawn to those areas where they are already better represented. So while there are pockets of female economists within certain subfields, there’s still a major disparity across the field as a whole. ...

In the coming months, I’ll write more about what this all means, for women and for the field as a whole. For now, I won’t delve too deeply into my experiences as an openly feminist economist and the eye-rolls I get from some of my peers whenever I suggest we hold more lectures and classes on feminist economics. Discussing that subfield just opens up a whole other can of worms, except yuck, girls don’t like worms.

This should be an interesting series. 

Twenty-eight percent of our sample of AERE members are women and there are some gender differences on some of the items (if anyone wants to dig deeper and look at the data for men vs women split, let me know and the data is all yours).

I'm not sure where environmental and resource economics falls in the quant to caring field range. Probably closer to caring? Since we *might* care more about environmental issues than other economists?  

 

Env-Econ: The Nobel Nomination

In response to the overwhelming grassroots interest we've received we have in being nominated for a Nobel Prize in honor of our contribution to the promulgation of environmental economics in the blogosphere, I've done some research (i.e. I Googled 'Nobel Prize in Economic Scence nomination'--I would've Google 'Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel' but I can never remember the real name...that will change when we win). 

Here are the criteria for being a nominator:

The right to submit proposals for the award of a Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel shall, by statute, be enjoyed by:

1. Swedish and foreign members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences;
2. Members of the Prize Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel;
3. Persons who have been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel;
4. Permanent professors in relevant subjects at the universities and colleges in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Norway;
5. Holders of corresponding chairs in at least six universities or colleges, selected for the relevant year by the Academy of Sciences with a view to ensuring the appropriate distribution between different countries and their seats of learning; and
6. Other scientists from whom the Academy may see fit to invite proposals.

Somewhere in my family tree is a two-time President of the Swiss Confederation: Robert Haab.  That should count for something, right? 

Oh, wait, Swiss=Switzerland. 

Not Sweden. 

My bad.

Anyhow...still looking for that nominator.

Rise up env-econers! Grass doesn't grow without roots.

Bookmark us on your phone!

I've just discovered that we have a mobile version at the knowledge base. Leave me a snarky comment if I should have known this years ago. Our mobile URL is:

http://www.env-econ.net/.m/

You can click on the link to see what it looks like. It is not so pretty but it might help with readability.

Should I try to figure out "head-common-extra-mobile" and "footer-extra-mobile"?

This is a blog post

Environmental Economics (www.env-econ.net) is a blog:

I got a bang out of Forrest Wickman’s Slate article a couple of weeks ago decrying the trend of calling a blog post or blog entry a “blog.” Haven’t noticed the trend? You will; it’s a thing. Wickman points out that going along with this can make you sound silly. ...

It’s as if people started referring to a newspaper article as “a newspaper.”

via chronicle.com

Or a journal article as a journal. 

Just saying.

A new "economics and environment and more" blog

ingmar schumacher:

According to some, the important and depressing graph missing is number 32 – beer prices across Europe on the rise. That is, unless you live in Ireland, of course, then, based on chart 32, life has been looking increasingly optimistic since 2010.

Chart 32

via ingmarschumacher.wordpress.com

I'll be following via email since I couldn't find the RSS feed. 

Top 6 economics blogs?

Or something else?

... DeLong, Krugman, Econbrowser, Calculated Risk, Free Exchange, Environmental Economics, and a few more ...

via economistsview.typepad.com

Actually, it is something else. Here is what Mark Thoma said about these blogs:

Some of the RSS feeds in the sidebar stopped working for mysterious reasons ...

But still, at least we were mentioned in the same breath! We all broke down at once.

New on the blogroll

Ed Barbier is one of the bloggers at the Triple Crisis blog. Here is some stuff from the about page:

The world is experiencing three simultaneous crises in finance, development, and the environment.  A number of economists are questioning the mainstream narratives and analyses of these crises.  Some of us have joined to create the Triple Crisis Blog to contribute to a more open and global dialogue around these three crises. ...

The aim of this blog is to provide fresh insights on current debates from an unprecedented network of economic analysts from the Global North and the Global South, from eleven countries.  In so doing, the Triple Crisis Blog seeks to generate dialogue in a way that has an exponential effect in terms of influencing policy-makers and the broader public.

Why didn't I think of that?

Blogging is a pain. Every day it is the same old thing ... picture of the day, daily demand and suppy, talk about my kids and what I've been eating, make fun of Tim. I think that the blog formerly known as Green, Inc has a great plan. Shut down and scatter the topic to the ends of the earth:

As we wind down this blog, readers have asked how best to follow The Times’s ongoing coverage of the environment.

Articles we publish on the subject will appear online on our environment page and in our Twitter feed for environment stories, @nytenvironment. Our colleague in Op-Ed, Andrew Revkin, has created a list of the Twitter accounts of former Green blog contributors called “Green Blog Voices.” Mr. Revkin’s own blog, DotEarth, remains a source for perspective on environmental concerns.

Coverage of the environment, energy and climate change will continue across a variety of desks and platforms at The Times, including Science, National and Business Day.

Get out of my way while I subscribe to multiple Twitter accounts!

And I'm dreaming of the day when I'm quitting. You'll be able to find the picture of the day on my office door, daily demand and supply in my class or hallway conversations, stuff about my kids on facebook, you can ask me at conferences about what I had for dinner and I'll be starting a daily e-newsletter (i.e., spam) making fun of Tim (you'll be able to find subscription details on my personal webpage).

Another sequester casuality?

Even a name change couldn't save the blog formerly known as Green, Inc (at least I can finally let go of my irritation at the name change):

The Times is discontinuing the Green blog, which was created  to track environmental and energy news and to foster lively discussion of developments in both areas. This change will allow us to direct production resources to other online projects. But we will forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewables sector and consumer choices.

Thanks to all of our readers.

You're welcome.

And here is the addendum to that post:

We’re moving, but we’ll only be a mouse-click away.

Please watch for environmental policy news on the Caucus blog and energy technology news on the Bits blog.

There looks to be plenty of political news at the Caucus blog, so I'll pass. And "energy technology"? Oh dear lord no thanks!

I guess I'll continue to get my DC environmental news from my local Tea Party newsletter.