Sunday, February 12, 2023

Behavioral Economics, Beef, and Climate

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Recently I've written a number of posts related to the behavioral economics of food choices, beef consumption and climate impacts. Pictu...

Nudging Back: Turning Off Your Camera May Be Good for the Climate

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How many of us have been nudged during a zoom meeting to turn on your camera? In recent research (Obringer, et al. 2021) published in the jo...
Monday, December 05, 2022

Canceling Science and Monetizing Outrage

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If we maintain the fantasy of a puritan separation of science and business then innovation will dry up and die. There will be no one left to...
Friday, November 11, 2022

Nominal GDP (NGDP) Targeting and the Supply Chain Knowledge Problem

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Background: The Supply Chain Knowledge Problem Last year a wrote a post titled  The Supply Chain Knowledge Problem addressing what I believ...
Monday, October 24, 2022

The Ethics of Dietary Nudges and Behavior Change Focused on Climate and Sustainability

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As discussed in McFadden, et al., 2022, when focusing on policies and behaviors related to climate change and sustainability we should consi...
Tuesday, June 28, 2022

The Role of Identify Protective Cognition in the Formation of Consumer Beliefs and Preferences

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Background People pick and choose their science, and often they do it in ways that seem rationally inconsistent. One lens through which we c...
Friday, June 17, 2022

The Limits of Nudges and the Role of Experiments in Applied Behavioral Economics

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In a recent article in Nature, Evidence from a statewide vaccination RCT , authors found that eight different nudges previously shown to be ...
Monday, June 13, 2022

Agricultural Economics in the Healthcare Space

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During the pandemic, it wasn't too uncommon to hear the criticism that economists should stay in their lane when it comes to issues rela...
Monday, January 24, 2022

Innovation, Disruption, and Low(er) Carbon Beef

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Is There Really Such a Thing as Low-Carbon Beef? That is the title of a recent article in Wired . The article was referring to a new USDA pr...