Wednesday, February 1, 2023
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Email Whitelisting
Best Retirement Wishes
  • Economy
  • Editor’s Pick
  • Investing
  • Stock
  • Top News
No Result
View All Result
Best Retirement Wishes
Home Editor's Pick

I went to 2+ climate change sessions at the ASSA meetings

by
January 13, 2023
in Editor's Pick
0
0
SHARES
2
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

Peter Coy on the ASSA meetings (How the Coachella of Economics Can Survive Covid) (emphasis added):

The annual three-day meeting is the Coachella of economics. It’s a be-in and a teach-in. In place of music, art and other earthly delights, there are PowerPoint presentations featuring innovations in econometrics. Nobel laureates rub shoulders with future ones. In any given time slot there might be 60 simultaneous sessions on how economics can fight climate change or reduce income inequality or help people save for retirement or rein in the tech giants.

Related posts

Carbon offsets: a guide to avoiding food poisoning

Carbon offsets: a guide to avoiding food poisoning

February 1, 2023

Water, water, nowhere?

January 31, 2023

I went to three climate change sessions:

The first was a 5 loosely connected paper no discussant AEA session that I chaired on the first day. This format is something the AEA was trying to try to boost participation. The authors had heady affiliations but they were all relatively new and (much) younger than me. One of the authors got in late because of flight problems so were were left with 4 papers. We went from a 20 minute presentations with 20 minute Q&A at the end format to a 20 minute presentations followed by 10 minutes of Q&A format. The session was well attended and each of the authors had a good paper/presentation and kept to the time constraints. I vaguely understood one of the papers. 
The second was an AERE sponsored session on the social cost of carbon. It covered the work behind this paper and it was great. I vaguely understood the whole thing. One of the guys sitting next to me fell asleep.
The third was a Sunday 8am AEA session that started late because “someone was at some breakfast” (maybe not a totally accurate quote). I left and went to my backup session(s) where I heard a couple of interesting papers. I made it back to the climate session to hear a talk on a social cost of carbon where 2 huge names were co-authors on the paper. This paper was dated and disappointing. The contrast between the latter two sessions reminds me to venture outside an AERE sponsored session to hear environmental economics at a general economics conference with caution. 

Also this shout out to the SBCA (emphasis added):

For economists, this is heaven itself. In a typical year the annual meeting of the Allied Social Science Associations used to draw around 13,000 of them, of which about 30 percent represented institutions outside the United States. The American Economic Association was and is the anchor organization. There are 64 other participating organizations, including the African Finance and Economics Association, the Association of Christian Economists, the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis and the Union for Radical Political Economics.

I also attended the lone SBCA session on addiction and had dinner with the past-president (oyster po boy at the Acme Oyster Bar — $24.99 with no sides). The SBCA recently met the membership threshold to have an ASSA session and it was a good one and better attended than some of the random ASSA sessions I wandered in to.

Next Post

We Will Berry You

Next Post

We Will Berry You

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Get the daily email that makes reading the news actually enjoyable. Stay informed and entertained, for free.
Your information is secure and your privacy is protected. By opting in you agree to receive emails from us. Remember that you can opt-out any time, we hate spam too!

RECOMMENDED NEWS

The Government Throws Money at Heart Disease, but Prevention Is Better than Cure

The Government Throws Money at Heart Disease, but Prevention Is Better than Cure

3 weeks ago
Do Correlations Help Define Money?

Do Correlations Help Define Money?

4 days ago
Empty Malls and Shopping Centers: How Government Fuels Malinvestments

Empty Malls and Shopping Centers: How Government Fuels Malinvestments

1 day ago
Medical Freedom Summit

Medical Freedom Summit

1 week ago

BROWSE BY CATEGORIES

  • Economy
  • Editor's Pick
Get the daily email that makes reading the news actually enjoyable. Stay informed and entertained, for free.
Your information is secure and your privacy is protected. By opting in you agree to receive emails from us. Remember that you can opt-out any time, we hate spam too!

POPULAR NEWS

  • Why the End of the Petrodollar Spells Trouble for the US Regime

    Why the End of the Petrodollar Spells Trouble for the US Regime

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • I went to 2+ climate change sessions at the ASSA meetings

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • We Will Berry You

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Mises Club Midwest Meetup

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Make No Mistake, War Hawk American Policy Helped Start This War in Ukraine

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Disclaimer

BestRetirementWishes.com, its managers, its employees, and assigns (collectively "The Company") do not make any guarantee or warranty about what is advertised above. Information provided by this website is for research purposes only and should not be considered as personalized financial advice. The Company is not affiliated with, nor does it receive compensation from, any specific security. The Company is not registered or licensed by any governing body in any jurisdiction to give investing advice or provide investment recommendation. Any investments recommended here should be taken into consideration only after consulting with your investment advisor and after reviewing the prospectus or financial statements of the company.

Recent News

  • Carbon offsets: a guide to avoiding food poisoning
  • Fiat Money Inflation Not Only Raises Prices but Also Undermines Division of Labor
  • “Stakeholder Capitalism” Is an Incoherent Term

Category

  • Economy
  • Editor's Pick

Recent News

Carbon offsets: a guide to avoiding food poisoning

Carbon offsets: a guide to avoiding food poisoning

February 1, 2023

Fiat Money Inflation Not Only Raises Prices but Also Undermines Division of Labor

February 1, 2023
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Email Whitelisting

© 2021 BestRetirementWishes. All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Email Whitelisting
  • Home 1
  • Privacy Policy
  • suspicious-engagement
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Thank You

© 2021 BestRetirementWishes. All Rights Reserved.