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Moral and political philosophy, climate economics, bioethics Author of *The Social Cost of Carbon* (OUP 2025) | Faculty @UWMadison, posting in personal capacity Likes: Boston Celtics ☘️, bouldering, ebikes, funding public ed. paulkelleher.net

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · Jan 14

Those with institutional access to Oxford Academic/Oxford Scholarship Online can now access an HTML version of my book here: academic.oup.com/book/59438

Looks like the dead-tree version will be available on/by March 4.

The Social Cost of Carbon: Ethics and the Limits of Climate Change Economics

Abstract. Climate change economists have called it “the most important number you have never heard of” and the “holy grail of climate economic analysis.” I

academic.oup.com

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 24m

A newspaper article. Picture caption: "CARROLL HATT of Bangor holds his winning lottery ticket He is joined by his daughter, Aimee (left), and his wife, Jeanne." (NEWS Photo by Scott Haskell)

Article:

Bangor man wins big
Megabucks winner shares $3.3 million
By John Hubbard
Of the NEWS Staff
Carroll Hatt of Bangor said Monday night that he was not planning to do very much, other than take his family to a restaurant, after learning he was one of three people who had shared last Saturday's Tri-State Megabucks jackpot totaling $3.3 million.
"Want to see a million bucks?" Hatt held up his Megabucks ticket, showing five lines of numbers he had chosen. "Isn't it a dream?" Hatt, 59, will receive $55,000 every year, before taxes, for the next 20 years.
He bought his winning ticket at the Holden General Store in Holden.
Hatt had bought tickets since the Megabucks drawings began, playing numbers based on his children's birthdays, he said. There are five children in the Hatt family, Aimee, the youngest, Joanna, Terri, Wendy and David.
Monday night, David was the only one who had not yet been told of the good fortune because he lives in California and the Hatt telephone had been busy all night.
"I do designs on the card," said Hatt about his choice of some numbers. "For a long time I was winning 520 a week, so I kept it up. I
said Jeanne Hatt, Carroll's wife. Jeanne said
that neither she nor Carroll had decided what they would do. "Just relax," she Ventured. Jeanne said the family had no plans to spend much money.
Hatt said that he worked at Standard Electric in Bangor as a purchasing agent "as of right now." He had worked at the electric company for 35 years and he described himself as being "very, very comfortable there.'
Throughout all the excitement at the Hatt home, the family's ali-black cat, Midnight, remained perched on a windowsill
"He's eating gourmet food, tonight," said Hatt of the cat.

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 36m

Kinda makes me wish I'd tried harder to publish that one short paper from my diss that explained some of this.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 38m

It tracks: he'd been a raging alcoholic and then had quit cold turkey for the rest of his life. So willpower was not wanting in him.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 53m

This was 1988.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 56m

The lore built until someone convinced him to open the envelop live on the local 6 o'clock news. And there it was: 4-7-11-18-25-36. $1.1 million. 3/3

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 56m

My grandfather had left his tickets in the car and upon learning there had been a winner at his store he just ensured the car was locked and left them there. A couple weeks went by and no winner emerged but word was spread that my grandfather had unchecked tickets in a sealed envelop. 2/

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 56m

A kinda related story: My grandfather played the lotto every week and the morning after a draw he and his buds would go to the convenience store where they bought tickets and check their numbers together over coffee. Then word came that someone had bought the winning ticket from that store. 1/

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 4h

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1h

I always have people crying uncle with my Hamlet jokes

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1h

This is such a wonderful gift and tribute!

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1h

😱

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1h

Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me! You would play upon me; you would seem to know my stops are not in the Constitution; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery!

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 12h

They said on-line isn’t real life, and Bluesky is a niche social media site.

But here is @akalhan.bsky.social getting “Kavanaugh Stops” into the Boston Globe!

With a pic of Kav looking a little petulant too (but then when doesn’t he?).

Glad to see this is sticking to him.

Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means. - The Boston Globe

The phrase, is "a window into where [the administration] can go next," some advocates say.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2h

Sure thing! I feel like this place could do with a little more of that from academics

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 2h

Awesome! Congrats on what sounds like important and innovative work!

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 9h

No need to worry

In an interview with NewsNation, U.S. Chief Patrol Agent Gregory Bovino said that U.S. citizens were also detained during the raid due to safety reasons, saying “we generally don’t determine alienage while in the building,” adding, “no rights have been violated today.”

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 10h

Naw it just seemed too rational for X lol

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 10h

Niiice. Is the record scratch/plot twist in here?

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 10h

Don’t know why but I’m a little surprised these figures sum to 100

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 12h

Rawls / Nozick / Gauthier

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 15h

this one hits a bit different in 2025

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@drivingmemadi
professors in liberal arts classes only want one thing and it's fucking discussing
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Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 16h

One more plug for this webinar tomorrow afternoon. Not too late to register!

Jason L. Schwartz @jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 19d

An opportune time to promote this virtual event coming up in a few weeks, hosted by the folks at @busph.bsky.social. (Too bad there’s not much to discuss!) Details and registration: publichealthconversation.org/conversation...

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

I suspect not, but the 'wellby' seems to be catching on across the pond. eric.ed.gov?id=ED674749

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

I appreciate the advance peek!

Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

I’ve read this book twice now and I’ve appreciated the chance to grapple with a new conceptual framework for climate policy analysis. If (like me) you’re a proponent of carbon pricing, it’s your responsibility to read this and explain exactly where you disagree.

Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world!

Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

press.princeton.edu

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

press.princeton.edu

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 1d

There’s a member of my family with this affliction.

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