posts tagged as economics

The Bogus “Consensus” Argument on Climate Change

One of the popular rhetorical moves in the climate change debate is for advocates of aggressive government intervention to claim that “97%...

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Economist David R. Henderson Changes His Mind on Carbon Tax

David R. Henderson is a research fellow with the Hoover Institution and was a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey,...

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Physicist in New York Times Admits Climate Change Might Be “Mere Annoyance”

For years here at IER I have been warning Americans that the “consensus science” in the peer-reviewed economics literature doesn’t at all...

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Gasoline Prices Under the Green New Deal Would Reach $13 per Gallon

Many of the Democrats running for President in 2020 support the Green New Deal that was introduced by Representative Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez of...

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“Planting Trees” Disrupts the Carbon Tax Narrative

A recent article in The Guardian trumpeted the findings of a new study published in Science that found massive tree planting would...

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Milton Friedman’s Energy Insights

Today we celebrate the 107th anniversary of the birth of economist Milton Friedman (1912–2006). Primarily known for his work on monetary economics,...

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