2011

Robert Stavins was quoted in the January 3 edition of Politico, " White House hires veteran environmental economist." Nat Keohane, former HEEP pre-doctoral fellow, and incoming Special Advisor to the President for Energy and the Environment at the White...

Robert Stavins' blog post with Richard Schmalensee, Renewable Irony and its subsequent follow-up post, Renewable Energy Standards: Less Effective, More Costly, but Politically Preferred to Cap-and-Trade? were cited in the January 14 edition of The...

Robert Stavins authored an essay in January 18 edition of The New York Times' Room for Debate series. Stavins' piece Pitfalls in Public Policies, is part of a larger debate: Can the U.S. Compete With China on Green Tech ?

[ International New York Times ]...But some obstacles are specific to the nuclear industry, like the ballooning cost estimates for construction of reactors, which are massive in scale. Even when projects are identified as prime candidates for federal loan...

[ The Economist ]...[Economists] will admit that their models aren't very good at incorporating large short-term shocks. The "long tail" possibilities in climate science -- the low-probability, high-impact stuff like ice shelves collapsing or thermohaline...

[ Nature ] Joe Aldy was special assistant to President Barack Obama for energy and environment, and represented the White House during climate negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009 and in Cancún, Mexico, in 2010. He stepped down last December and now teaches...

[ International New York Times ]... Martin Weitzman, another Harvard economist, wonders, for example, how Wall Street or anyone else could place an accurate price on the risk that an asteroid would crash into a major population center. In a controversial...

[ ClimateWire ]..."If it became politically acceptable to look for new revenue, then it would be sensible to take a look essentially at consumption taxes, which would include taxes on energy as opposed to increasing taxes on investment, capital gains or...

Mullainathan, a HEEP Faculty Fellow, is Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Mullainathan is a co-founder of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, based at the...

[ The New Yorker ]... Robert Stavins, the director of the environmental economics program at Harvard, said that he attributed “the lack of action in the United States” to “a set of factors which are vastly broader than environment.” Specifically, he...