Economics

Rep. Mike Levin reflects on the Republican budget bill

On why Republicans just voted against their own districts.

Jun 20 •

1:02:55

What the F is happening? Part 2

Trump's latest moves on IRA credits, coal, tariffs, and state climate policies.

Apr 21 •

54:51

What's up with clean-energy supply chains and global trade?

How trade barriers and tariff threats are creating investment uncertainty in global clean energy markets.

Apr 4 •

1:07:31

Can we avoid the enshittification of clean-energy tech?

Cory Doctorow describes how software platform technologies go wrong and what it might look like when our homes and vehicles are on those platforms.

Dec 11, 2024 •

1:37:15

Volts podcast: Elizabeth Popp Berman on the "economic style of thinking" that consumed US policy

Ever get the sense that everyone in center-left policy discussions is auditioning for the approval of some imagined economist? A sociologist traces the…

Apr 15, 2022 •

1:02:49

Do dividends make carbon taxes more popular? Apparently not.

A new study examines public opinion in the (very few) countries where a carbon "fee & dividend" has been implemented. Getting money back does not seem…

Jan 24, 2022 •

16:01

Volts podcast: the good news about clean energy, with Kingsmill Bond

Renewable energy, batteries, and electrolysis for clean hydrogen are all on powerful learning curves, getting cheaper at eye-popping rates & making…

Oct 11, 2021 •

1:03:20

A rant about economist pundits, and other things, but mostly economist pundits

An idle Friday essay about some of the way economists have botched climate change and what they might learn from it.

Oct 8, 2021 •

16:00

Economists have quantified the economic risks of climate "tipping points." It's grim.

Climate economists have long ignored the risk of climate tipping points, like the sudden melting of ice sheets or massive methane release from melting…

Aug 18, 2021 •

16:04

Giving up on the economy-wide carbon pricing dream

A conversation with Cullenward & Victor, part one.

Dec 15, 2020 •

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