My article The Economics of Conservation is up on seedmagazine.com. The article discusses the clash over global warming, and how economists and climatologists deal with the uncertainty inherent in each of their disciplines. It was an interesting article to write -- I got to talk with a number of economists and a climatologist, and I learned a lot about how these disciplines work.
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That's a great idea, Gary -- maybe I'll pitch that idea to Seed for my next article....