trfetzer.com
Accidental Economist. Prof at Universities of Warwick & Bonn . Visiting Prof Grantham, Visiting Fellow STICERD @ LSE. ERC STG. Fellow @ CEPR & Associate Editor Economic Journal.
👤 Joined on 21 September 2023
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@fetzert.bsky.social@fetzert.bsky.social → @trfetzer.comYay, #Publication Alert! 🥳📣 A new article published in Ecological Economics in which we conduct a cross-country discrete choice experiment (#DCE). We investigate whether 767 French, Dutch, and UK farmers prefer public or private funding options for conservation measures. 1/5
Show PostWant to understand why journalists and politicians get so excited about AI doomsday predictions but mostly ignore climate change? It's called *information pollution.* Thank you to @amywestervelt.bsky.social for coining this important new term and writing a book about it, and explaining it to me!
Show PostHOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here
Show PostI’ve cracked a few helmets, so I’m going to keep wearing one. But keep in mind that bicycle helmets are not designed to protect you against impacts with cars. We need better infrastructure for that.
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