Green Jobs: Making Society Poorer (Basic math can show interesting things)
A key element of the current administration’s approach to recovery from our current economic and financial crises is a fundamental reorientation of the kinds of work performed in our economy. But a...
View ArticleGreen Job Destruction: The Spain Study (Netting to negative via government)
As many of us have argued for some time, simple economic theory suggests that the government’s push to create “green jobs” will ultimately kill more jobs on net. While the theoretical argument is fully...
View ArticleSpeaking Truth to Wind Power (Testifying against Ontario’s Green Energy Act)
INTRODUCTION My wife and I (like many other residents) chose a retirement home in Grey Highlands because it is one of the scenic treasures of southwestern Ontario, dominated by the Niagara Escarpment,...
View ArticleBusting the "Clean Energy Bank" (another problem with Waxman-Markey)
Buried within the controversial Waxman-Markey “cap and trade” bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (formally known as HR 2454, “The American Clean Energy and Security Act”) – a bill that may well...
View ArticleHouston Chronicle's Loren Steffy on Waxman-Markey (can this straight shooter...
The Houston Chronicle editorials have long been a bastion of climate alarmism and policy activism (see here and here), positions that must be so dear to the paper’s senior management (and owners?) that...
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IER's Danish Wind Study: Response to Critics
[Editor note: The post is a slightly revised version of what was posted at the Institute for Energy Research website on September 17. The primary author was Daniel R. Simmons, director of state energy...
View ArticleGreen Jobs: The Last Redoubt (invoking military images of us-versus-them)
Over the past few weeks, with more dents accumulating in the armor of warmism, a new battle line is taking shape: ” The U.S. economy is ill, energy is important, green jobs will save us, promote green...
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Italian Green Jobs: Where’s the Spaghetti?
(with Luciano Lavecchia) Mr Lavecchia is a fellow and Dr. Stagnaro the research and studies director at Istituto Bruno Leoni. This post follows the release of their recent analysis for Italy showing...
View Article‘Losing the Future’ via Government Jobs: FDR’s New Deal; Obama’s New New Deal
“Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself,...
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‘Green Jobs’: An Application of the Broken Window Fallacy (Henry Hazlitt...
The broken window…. An elementary fallacy. Anybody, one would think, would be able to avoid it after a few moments’ thought. Yet the broken window fallacy, under a hundred disguises, is the most...
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