Oikos
Blog URL http://www.greenomics.blogspot.com/
Located Sydney, New South Wales Australia
Tags environment, economics, ecology, environmental economics, environmental policy
Ecology and economics share a common root: the Greek word oikos, meaning “home” or “a place to live”.
Oikos is an Australian environmental policy blog focussing on the connections between the environment and the economy.
Latest Blog Posts
- Ken Henry on tax reform on Oct 20, 2009 in pigovian taxes transport
If the tax structure from early last century prevailed today, we would have to raise $40 billion from excise and $230 billion from tariffs to meet today's revenue demand. At that rate the excise on a schooner of beer would be around 7 times what it i...
- Climate Change Blog Action Day on Oct 15, 2009 in climate change
Apparently today is Blog Action Day for Climate Change and I thought I'd throw it open to my wonderful blog readers.I find myself alternatively optimistic and despairing on climate change. How bad is it going to be? Are we going to do what it takes...
- What's the Opposition's climate policy? on Oct 7, 2009 in emissions trading
I saw Maclolm Turnbull interviewed the other night saying that he supported emissions trading and reminding people that emissions trading was indeed government policy under the previous Howard Liberal government when Turnbull was Environment Minister...
- Emissions trading: Auctioning permits vs giving them away on Oct 6, 2009 in emissions trading
As I've talked about before (The great permit give-away), one of the big debates in emissions trading is whether to auction most of the permits or give them away free to industry. Under the Australian CPRS it looks like more and more will be given a...
- Red sky in the morning... on Sep 22, 2009 in climate change environmental economics random thoughts
Strange weather in Australia recently: record high winter temperatures, bushfires in spring, hail the size of cricket balls overnight and we woke this morning to an apocalyptic orange glow in Sydney.Meanwhile our Prime Minister is at the UN for clima...
- Stimulus payments can kill you on Sep 9, 2009 in unintended consequences random thoughts
Yes, those $900 cheques from Uncle Kevin can kill. That’s the finding of a new study in the Bulletin on Aging and Health:Many studies find that households increase their consumption after the receipt of expected income payments, a result inconsist...
- Economics and supermarket checkout lines on Sep 9, 2009 in random thoughts
I remember reading a nice exposition of the efficient markets hypothesis on Andrew Leigh's blog a while back:So if we believe shoppers are as rational as traders (why not?), then there should be a parallel efficient supermarkets hypothesis. The effic...
