Episode 169 (20 Jan 2022): Brandon Zicha is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at LUC. His research and teaching interest focus on how information is processed by social and political institutions and used to make collective decisions in modern societies, as well as the careful use and informed understanding of quantitative scientific methods for understanding social issues.

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/brandon-zicha#tab-1

Boris Johnson does NOT accept accountability

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/01/22/the-parable-of-boris-johnson

Episode 168 (9 Jan 2022): Ed Dolan holds a PhD in economics from Yale University. He has taught in the United States at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and George Mason University and Gettysburg College, and later at several universities in Europe, inclding American Institute of Business and Economics in Moscow, Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, for which he writes on climate economics, health care, and social policy.

Ed's last appearance in JT #61

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/61-ed-dolan-explains-why-we-need-carbon-pricing

State Capacity and Liberal Democracy: Where Does America Stand in the World? (Dec 2021)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/state-capacity-and-liberal-democracy-where-does-america-stand-in-the-world/

How Liberal Is America? (May 2021)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/how-liberal-is-america/

America’s Social Protection Gap and What to Do About It (May 2021)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/americas-social-protection-gap-and-what-to-do-about-it/

North, Wallis and Weingast (2006)

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

http://www.nber.org/papers/w12795

Episode 167 (31 Dec 2021): After 17 months, Mike is back to discuss Covid, markets and the real world. The conversation covers (in no particular or logical order) inflation, the great resignation, stock market bubbles, interest and debt markets, retail investors, and other topics.

The last episode was on 4 Aug 2020!

https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/88-mike-and-david-discuss-markets-and-coronavirus-part-3

Which economies have done best and worst during the pandemic?

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/which-economies-have-done-best-and-worst-during-the-pandemic/21806917

Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS

Money has never felt more fake

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22832438/nft-gamestop-amc-crypto-bubble

What will happen to inflation in 2022?

https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/what-will-happen-to-inflation-in-2022

The superbubble is ready to burst:

https://www.gmo.com/europe/research-library/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/

Episode 166 (20 Dec 2021): Jerry Gilbert is a California water professional engineer. He was educated at the University of Cincinnati and Stanford, with experience in large and small utility management.He has been a leader of government agencies and associations both national and international.

My dissertation on MWD:

https://ssrn.com/abstract=1129046

The MWD-PVID water trade:

https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/04/from-farms-to-cities/

Episode 165 (9 Dec 2021): Adam Fisher (https://www.adamfisher.org) grew up in Silicon Valley playing Atari, programming computers, and reading science fiction. He still lives in the Bay Area but now spends his time thinking about the future, tracing its origins, and writing about it. Valley of Genius is his first book. His second book, Designing Ideas, is about Yves Behar. When he's not writing about the evolution of ideas, he works as a private historian, writing bespoke biographies for the world's tech billionaires.

Adam's writing at Alta

https://www.altaonline.com/author/960295/adamfisher/

My review of Valley of Genius

https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=355

Affiliate links to buy Valley of Genius (https://amzn.to/3rR5Acx)and Designing Ideas (https://amzn.to/3GssHyf)

Episode 164 (26 Nov 2021): Paul Vriend graduated from LUC in 2018, majoring in Earth Energy and Sustainability. He went on to do an internship at the Ocean Cleanup and a master degree in Environmental Science at Wageningen University. For the past three years Paul has been studying macroplastic pollution in rivers, which has landed him a job at the Dutch government where he is currently part of a team that is exploring the possibilities for a national monitoring strategy for riverine macroplastic pollution.

Paul's research on Google Scholar

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hUn7nbwAAAAJ

David cleaning up plastic in Egypt

https://youtu.be/dXJEuMLTumY

19 Dec 2021: It's time for a winter break!

You can see all 8 playlists (to binge on past episodes according to theme) right here: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/sets

See you in 2022!

Episode 163 (22 Nov 2021): Allan Bekker is a California native from the Central Valley region. He currently works as a water resources manager for a small private water company in the southern Central Valley and is deeply interested in water management institution's movement toward more efficient/sustainable practices. He is interested in pursuing a graduate degree in economics to focus his understanding of water markets and potentially allow him to influence more aspects of the industry. He is seeking advice and guidance from economists to help define what his next steps will be related to a graduate degree in economics.

The role of prices in managing water scarcity

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312420300237

Living with Water Scarcity

http://www.kysq.org/lwws/

Episode 162 (18 Nov 2021): Cynthia Koehler is an environmental attorney and water policy expert with 30 years of experience working on federal and state water and natural resource issues. She is the co-founder and executive director of WaterNow Alliance, a nonprofit network of local water leaders advancing sustainable, equitable and climate resilient water management strategies nationwide, with a particular focus on innovative infrastructure finance and policy. She has served for the last 16 years as an elected Board Director for Marin Water, a public water provider serving a population of 200,000 people and responsible for managing 21,000 acres of watershed lands. She is an appointed member of the US EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) Council, and served previously on US EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee, and Governor Brown’s Urban Advisory Group. She worked previously as the Legislative Director for California water issues for the Environmental Defense Fund, and is the recipient of The Bay Institute’s Hero of the Bay Award, as well as other commendations for her environmental leadership.

Cynthia @ WaterNow

https://waternow.org/member/cynthia-koehler-3/

Next Door in MT

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/us/politics/montana-misinformation-national-heritage.html

Chapter 2 of Living with Water Scarcity is all about subsidies

https://www.kysq.org/lwws/

PFAS (John Oliver): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W74aeuqsiU

Episode 161 (22 Oct 2021): Angela van der Berg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-van-der-berg-62b7b391/) is the Acting Director of the newly established Global Environmental Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape's Faculty of Law in South Africa. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence where she runs and teaches in the LLM (masters) in Environmental Law. Angela's interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on future-orientated environmental law and governance research aimed at advancing sustainability under conditions of unprecedented environmental change. Much of this research is geared towards developing reflexive and responsive legal frameworks and governance structures fit for addressing complex social, economic and environmental challenges resulting from Anthropogenic climate change.

Winters vs USA (1908)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winters_v._United_States

NZ river with “personhood”

https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/features/innovative-bill-protects-whanganui-river-with-legal-personhood/