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Alistair Munro

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Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 9h

Hopefully not available in the UK

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How London became the phone-snatching capital of Europe

New analysis shows there were 50,000 thefts in the city last year — with criminals zooming away on e-bikes and shipping phones overseas to beat safety mechanisms

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 16h

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Graham Loomes reviews how contingent valuation and applied welfare economics is shaped by his work. #Econsky #EAERE

Daniel Kahneman and Contingent Valuation - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental and Resource Economics - In its early days, contingent valuation (CV) seemed to offer a powerful and flexible method for generating monetary values for benefits and harms that were...

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 19h

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Noel Zigrand Hoven & Karine Nyborg examine how behaviour around public goods is influenced by observability. #Econsky #EAERE

The Mixed Effects of Making Contribution Behaviors Observable - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental and Resource Economics - Voluntary contributions to public goods have been shown to increase when contribution behaviors become observable by peers. We examine the effect of social...

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 21h

In October's Environmental and Resource Economics we honour Daniel Kahneman's legacy: Chris Starmer and Robert Sugden examine his complicated relationship with economic theory and practice. #EconSky #Kahneman

What Daniel Kahneman Thought about Economics: A Reconstruction and Critique - Environmental and Resource Economics

Environmental and Resource Economics - Drawing on Kahneman’s writings, his responses in interviews and our personal recollections, we reconstruct and critically assess his view of his...

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Reposted by Dani Rodrik, Stephen M. Walt, Cas Mudde , and 51 more Dani Rodrik, Stephen M. Walt, Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell, Jan W. Mueller, Guntram B. Wolff, Christian Odendahl, Richard S.J. Tol, Colin F. Camerer, Robbert Sanderman, David Brady, Gabriel Felbermayr, Steven Van de Walle, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Alistair Munro, Michael A. Clemens, Cyrus Samii, Lucas Leemann, Francesco Saraceno, Laia Balcells, Andrew Curry, Paul Lehmann, Guy Grossman, John Mullahy, Joshua Goodman, David Dorn, Ingo Rohlfing, Daniel W. Drezner, Iikka Korhonen, Robert C. Richards, Aaron Sojourner, Daniel Huppmann, Julia Lynch, Rita Hamad, Stephen D. Murphy, Nazita Lajevardi, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Miguel Á. Malo, Henry Farrell, Dean Eckles, Maria Abreu, Dana R. Fisher, Jason Lyall, Brian Weatherson, Brooke Harrington, Bård Harstad, Christina Pagel, Jürgen Janger, Nicolai von Ondarza, Karsten Mäuse, Dietmar Fehr, Bartosz Bartkowski, Adam Tooze, Anita Gohdes

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 1d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d

So not the opening lines of Vampires of Ontario?

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 1d

Checks out

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 2d

My paper "Tax benefits for users of company cars: How do they affect the cost of ownership for the employer?" has been published on-line in European Transport Studies. It is available in free access. Work performed at the Federal Planning Bureau.

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Tax benefits for users of company cars: How do they affect the cost of ownership for the employer?

I present a cost of ownership (from the perspective of the employer) analysis of leased company cars sold in Belgium in 2023, both before and after ta…

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Reposted by Daniela Gabor, Glen P. Peters, Graeme S. Cumming , and 6 more Daniela Gabor, Glen P. Peters, Graeme S. Cumming, Alistair Munro, Benjamin Braun, Leonhard Dobusch, John Hogan, Étienne Espagne, Matthias Schnetzer

Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 2d

🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.

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The Productivity Institute @productivity.bsky.social · 2d

📊 New report by @joshmartinecon.bsky.social and Cliodhna Taylor for The Productivity Institute and @escoeorg.bsky.social tracks UK labour productivity across 184 industries from 2009–2023, more than double the granularity available from official datasets.
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Labour productivity estimates for detailed industries in the UK, 2009 to 2023 - The Productivity Institute

Research constructing labour productivity estimates for 184 industries spanning the entire UK economy – more than double the granularity available from official datasets.

www.productivity.ac.uk

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d

The best part is that, once a term, the apparatus magically reassembled itself for Pirates

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d

Rumour has it that Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, was based on his experience of the Japanese lettuce, notorious for wilting the moment the barcode is read, so I’d say Takaichi san will easily survive the Truss challenge.

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Land Economics @land-econ.bsky.social · 3d

Land Economics continues to celebrate 100 years in publication! To read an open access bibliometric review of the journal (doi.org/10.3368/le.102.1.271914) and other free preprint articles like it, visit: le.uwpress.org/content/early/recent.

Abstract: Spanning 1925–2024, we map Land Economics (LE) using Web of Science and Scopus with VOSviewer, bibliometrix, and SciVal. Analyses of documents, authors, and themes show LE as a central node linking environmental, agricultural, and urban economics. Seminal strands—property rights, contingent valuation, discrete choice, and hedonic pricing—anchor long-run influence. Keyword co-occurrence and thematic mapping confirm persistent emphases on valuation models, impact assessment, and policy applications, alongside emerging work on ecosystem services, climate change, and the water–energy nexus. Trend-topic and SciVal clusters reveal growing attention to disaster management, green innovation, and behavioral economics with uneven recent citation performance across topics and time.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d

No. They are monetizing (Monet izing?) hypothetical well-being gains.

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d

There is no such thing as society, but there is such a thing as future society.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 4d

Thatcher sounding like Zack Polanski here

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 4d

Fiscal costs: -€72mn (after accounting for increased tax revenues & lower social benefits payouts)

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 4d

Actually... from my reading of the artists' basic income report, the government did not earn money back from the scheme (although its costs were offset 37%)

Most gains were societal and came from putting the artists' improvements in wellbeing in € terms

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 4d

Thatcher sounding like Zack Polanski here

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d

Many a slip Twix cup and lip

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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 5d

Read more in my (open access) book on climate optimism: doi.org/10.1007/978-...

The Case Against Climate Doom

This open access book provides hope against climate pessimism and outline practical ways to combat climate change.

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大やま @solzheshimarin.bsky.social · 7d

高市の演説、日本をアメリカに置き換えるとほとんどトランプの演説になるのポイント高いですね

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Darakhshan Nehal @darakhshann.bsky.social · 7d

lmu-osc.github.io/introduction... Just sharing, in case.

Welcome to the Zotero Tutorial! – Introduction to Zotero

lmu-osc.github.io

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 7d

"Dorfman’s intellectual style is based on deep & painstaking mastery of theoretical fundamentals, leading to clear intuitive grasp of analytical questions" (AEA, 1982)

Cool bio of R Dorfman, linear programmer turned environmental Econ, by @juliengradoz.bsky.social

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 8d

Looks like the witches of Scotland have been using Evanesco again.

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 9d

Public or private, an enterprise that has no money to pay its workers or suppliers must eventually close. The American federal government is currently teaching the world how this works.

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 9d

A hospital that runs continuously in the red will be unable to pay its staff at some point or will have to cut services. Eventually it must close.

Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 10d

‘Most’. Can you name one?

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 10d

Toyota Motor plans to install 500 more high-speed chargers for electric cars at dealerships in Japan — a goal that falls short of a pledge it made to install 10 times that number.

Toyota steps up high-speed EV charger installations at dealerships

The carmaker aims to have 500 fast chargers installed at dealerships in Japan by the end of March 2026.

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