Articles by James Barrett
James Barrett is Chief Economist at the Clean Economy Development Center
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Rebounds and Jevons: Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded
My last post on David Owen's piece in the New Yorker and on the Jevons effect stirred up some interesting questions and discussion that I want to follow up on here.
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Rebounds gone wild
David Owen's New Yorker article about energy efficiency misses the point.
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The messy side of energy efficiency: finance
If we want to make a dent in household energy efficiency, we will need to move large amounts of private capital.
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The problem with a green economy: economics hates the environment
Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. Economics is critical to getting decent climate legislation passed, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discusses in a extended piece for the New York Times. […]
