by Larry Shultz | Feb 10, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Emergent Properties, Public Health, Public Policy, Retirement
America’s Most Expensive Home for Sale Hits the Market for $295 Million – WSJ Donahue invented mutual funds. Each grandchild gets a cool $1 million at 18 or 21. I have been by there numerous times on a boat and just walking to the south end of the sparkling...
by Larry Shultz | Feb 1, 2024 | Climate, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Human and Civil rights, Public Health, Public Policy
Just over a third think higher education is a net win. 40% think it isa a zero-sum game (with student loans) and just over a fifth think it is a less than zero sum game, thus it provides negative utility. Honestly, many people attend and thus have no earnings for a...
by Larry Shultz | Jan 28, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biology, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Education, Evolution, Neuroeconomics, Pseudoscience, Science, US West
Motivated science skeptics will say, because it is sporadically colder than normal, and it still occasionally snows in some areas, that by definition there is a massive climate change hoax It is elicited and spread by the conspiracy of a durable rabble of sinners,...
by Larry Shultz | Jan 20, 2024 | Biology, Biophysical Economics, Cities, Climate, Democracy, Ecology, Education, Energy, Evolution, Public Health, Scale, Science
Mental Health. Coping with the future: notes from Jackson & Jensen’s “An Inconvenient Apocalypse” | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)
by Larry Shultz | Jan 19, 2024 | Biophysical Economics, Cities, Climate, Energy
Electric and gasoline vehicle total cost of ownership across US cities – Woody – Journal of Industrial Ecology – Wiley Online Library Note that plug in Hybrids were not studied. Nore also that social and environmental costs, so called...
by Larry Shultz | Jan 19, 2024 | Cities, Climate, Real Estate
Are Big Cities Really Bad Places to Live? Improving Quality-of-Life Estimates across Cities (nber.org)
