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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 · 1h
Who says that the private supply of public goods is sub-optimal?

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4h
Sunny Sidmouth

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Arthur Charpentier @freakonometrics.bsky.social · 1d
"Experimental mathematicians" xkcd.com/3180 by @xkcd.com

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 1d
That paper pointed out many flood events we identified seem to be driven by heavy rain compounded by high tide that limits drainage. That is a dynamic playing out in Miami that will only worsen with sea-level rise. Alex Hall also wrote on our paper at the time: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/e...
In Miami, tweets about flooded streets come before the actual floods, a new study found
Miami notices flooding at lower levels than the official standard for floods, a study found. Residents start to tweet about flooding long before the NOAA threshold is hit because of how low-lying the ...
www.miamiherald.com

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Daniel Read @danielread.bsky.social · 1d
One of the terrible things about the culture wars is how the older generation is harming the prospects of the younger. The recent Brexit poll, showing how so many Brexit voters have died, underlined this for me.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d
Thanks to @johnholbein1.bsky.social I learned about this paper on rent control in Berlin.

Because I was marking, I immediately downloaded the replication materials.

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johnholbein1.bsky.social John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 3d
Um, ok...

This paper forthcoming at the JOP provides evidence that rent control in Germany actually made tenants MASSIVELY *less* NIMBY.

This result was in the opposite direction of the authors' pre-registered expectations.

And the effect sizes are, truly, massive.

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James D.J. Brown @jamesdjbrown.bsky.social · 2d
“With one decision, President Putin deprived Japan of ¥1.79 trillion in tourist revenue.” (At least according to the Russian media).
The article says Putin’s decision to grant visa-free access to Chinese tourists means they’ll visit Russia instead of Japan.
www.mk.ru/economics/20...
Путин лишил Японию миллиардов от туризма
Решение России открыть безвизовый въезд для граждан Китая совпало с резким обострением отношений между Токио, Пекином и Москвой. На этом фоне китайские СМИ фиксируют быстрый рост интереса к поездкам в...
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d
Pat on the back for the Software Sustainability Institute too.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 2d
Probably the same person responsible for this clothing shop

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 3d
The Economic History Review has published a virtual issue collecting the contributions of 2025 Nobel Laureate Joel Mokyr in the journal. I had the privilege of writing the introductory essay. You can read it here, together with Joel's articles and reviews.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
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The Uproot Project @uprootproject.bsky.social · 3d
"How a renewables superpower, lack of transparency, and international financing have created a gaping fossil fuel loophole" in Indonesia. Uprooter @nithincoca.com on @climateandcap.bsky.social

www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/what-and-who...
What, and who, is behind Indonesia’s climbing coal use?
How a renewables superpower, lack of transparency, and international financing have created a gaping fossil fuel loophole
www.climateandcapitalmedia.com

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 3d
Recently, in Environmental and Resource Economics: which gives the biggest climate policy boost: growing substitutability of dirty with clean energy, scaling renewables, or efficiency in application?

Lucas Bretschger, Matthias Leuthard & Alena Miftakhova have answers. #EAERE
Boosting Sluggish Climate Policy: Endogenous Substitution, Learning, and Energy Efficiency Improvements - Environmental and Resource Economics
There is widespread concern that climate policy is moving too slowly and that decarbonization is coming too late for effective climate protection. We analyze three different empirically relevant…
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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 3d
China's exports of "new energy" passenger vehicles (BEV+PHEV) have increased 82.6% in Jan-Nov compared to the same period last year.
中国汽车流通协会乘用车市场信息联席分会
乘用车市场信息联席会（以下简称全国乘联会，英文简称CPCA）成立于1994年，原名全国轿车市场信息联谊会。全国乘联会也是中国流通协会下属的汽车市场研究分会。
www.cpcaauto.com

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John Gruber @gruber.foo · 4d
A very DF scoop:

daringfireball.net/2025/12/fu...
The Full Text of Marco Rubio’s Directive on State Department Typography, Re-Establishing Times New Roman
Good on Rubio for rescinding a bad decision, and even better for doing so with a fair and informative explanation.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 4d
Or there’s also this. I am full of helpful explications. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
Network Analyst - Once rare, now forms giant swarms - Has no concept of what endogeneity is - Working on cool new measure of centrality - Constantly trying to migrate to West Coast Political Theorist - Oldest of all bee-like creatures - Can be repeatedly swatted but not killed - Not sure why it is in this picture - Can waggle-dance the Melian Dialog a comprehensive guide to Social Scientists Sociologist - Lives behind paywalls - Has no concept of what endogeneity is - Can only sting enemies once - Will sting self repeatedly Macroeconomist - Ideas should not be able to fly - Makes living from endogeneity - Constant buzzing sound - Comes in Salt and Freshwater varieties Political Scientist - Evolved stripes to look like Microeconomist - Actually quite harmless; even friendly - Gelman knows what endogeneity is - Secretly pines for social-democratic hive Microeconomist - Interrupts constantly, wants to sting you - Endogeneity is only concept it knows - Insists it is smartest bee - Not a real bee Anthropologist - Comes in four distinct varieties - Rejects "Bee" label as imperialist - Only exists because of imperialism - Used to know a surprising amount of math Social Psychologist - Feeds on Undergraduates - Stings journalists - Underpowered in flight - Drags rear pod of retractions

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Jacob Gellman @jacobgellman.com · 4d
See also Watson, Guettabi, Reimer (2020), "Universal Cash and Crime" in ReStat.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 4d
Babies born downstream of PFAS-contaminated sites in New Hampshire had a 168% higher chance of extremely premature birth and a 191% higher chance of dying in their first year, compared with babies whose mothers drank from uncontaminated wells. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/cCAP50XH2mA
The authors compare reproductive outcomes among households who receive water from wells that draw groundwater flowing either to or from a PFAS-contaminated site, shown in the diagram as an airport.

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 4d
A Kyoto high school has issued an apology after confirming that its students had shoplifted during a study trip to Bali following the emergence of a video online that drew widespread attention.
Kyoto high school confirms students shoplifted during Bali study trip
A video circulating online appeared to show a group of male Japanese students putting T-shirts into their bags and leaving the store without paying.
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 4d
‼️And in 3-2-1, a member of the Opposition proposes that UK should copy.

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 4d
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force.
news.sky.com

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RainOrShine99 @rainorshine99.bsky.social · 5d
Christmas Puzzle (2025) from UK spy guys:

www.gchq.gov.uk/news/gchq-ch...
GCHQ releases annual Christmas Challenge 2025 with puzzles designed by schoolchildren and spies
To mark a decade of festive puzzles, our in-house puzzlers have masterminded seven fiendish brainteasers and teamed up with schoolchildren on three festive designs
www.gchq.gov.uk

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 5d
Recently accepted by Environmental and Resource Economics: Stefano Bosi, David Desmarchelier & Thai Ha-Huy model how differences in substitutability affect the nature of optimal management of renewable resources. #EAERE #Econsky
Taste for Nature and Long-Run Cycles - Environmental and Resource Economics
Environmental and Resource Economics - From a dynamic perspective, the existing literature on renewable resources in a Ramsey economy is puzzling. On the one hand, the central planner’s...
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Matt Tarduno @tarduno.bsky.social · 5d
I'm super skeptical of the result/magnitude here:

• gradual change doesn't match traffic responses, which were sharp
• confidence intervals are tiny (PM has high variance!)
• This is not a standard DiD
• Cook et al. use synthetic control + more monitors and find no change

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Lauren Leek @laurenleek.eu · 5d
I wanted dinner recommendations so I scraped 13,000+ London restaurants and accidentally discovered Google Maps is running a shadow economy. Anyway here's a dashboard and a political economy thesis: open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
I wanted a dinner recommendation and got a research agenda instead. Using 13000+ restaurants, I rebuild its ratings with machine learning and map how algorithmic visibility actually distributes power.
open.substack.com

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 6d
"The study found that, from January through June 2025, average daily maximum PM2.5 concentrations in Manhattan’s CRZ declined by 3.05 micrograms per cubic meter – a reduction of 22% compared to a projected average of 13.8 micrograms per cubic meter had congestion pricing not been implemented."
Congestion pricing improved air quality in NYC and suburbs | Cornell Chronicle
Cornell researchers tallied the environmental benefits of New York City’s congestion pricing program and found air pollution dropped by 22% in Manhattan, with additional declines across the city’s fiv...
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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d
Undoubtedly bad and underhand, but is it the best use of RW’s resources to go after this guy?

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d
Good job that Boris surrendered his American passport then.

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 6d
It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.
Snapshot of US EPA's "causes of climate change" webpage as of 12/8/2025. Human causes are no longer mentioned anywhere on the page.

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Alistair Munro @alistair-munro.bsky.social · 6d
The six mother soups of British cuisine

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Daniel Spiro @danielspiro.bsky.social · 6d
Chris' other paper is with me and Arthur van Benthem. It was just published in @jeem-econ.bsky.social and provides a theoretical micro foundation for how much externalities a firm will internalize.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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