Stand-Up Economist

As seen on Comedy Central The PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer!

Chapter 15: The Big Picture (pages 181-192)

Summary in haiku form

Competition needs
Lots of tender loving care
Plus a carbon tax.

Summary in one paragraph

Need to add this…

Notes on specific pages

Link to Edgeworth Box

Page 185: Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen won the 1996 Nobel Prize “for his contributions to welfare economics.”

Page 189: “Now that’s an idea worthy of a Nobel Prize!”

Marty Weitzman is on my short list to win the Nobel Prize any day now for his work on environmental economics, including his pioneering “Prices versus quantities” paper comparing pollution taxes and cap-and-trade.

More on carbon taxes and cap-and-trade.

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