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I’m the guest editor for a new Special Issue of the journal Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. The theme of the issue is “Adoption of
read moreWhere did the decade go? Here are my 20 favourite albums over the past 10 years. In the previous two decades, my choice of best
read moreMartin Weitzman (1942-2019) was an environmental economist who thought laterally. He made important contributions to the field in at least three areas. Here I’ll explain
read moreFarmers are highly heterogeneous. Even farmers growing the same crops in the same region are highly variable. This is often not well recognised by policy
read moreMy School at the University of Western Australia is having a competition amongst staff and students to produce a 60-second video that says something interesting
read moreWhere organisations are unable or unwilling to quantify project benefits in monetary or monetary-equivalent terms, a common approach is to rank potential projects on the
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