For one, if we are to survive as a planet, we need to turn "carbon pricing" from a prompt for squabbles about "green washing" and into a technical term which some of us would describe a the natural numeraire in the carbon economy, that maximizes avoided CO2, minimizes atmospheric CO2.
THe problem for the student of political economy is to understand the incidence of the change in the dollar/TAC exchange rate from zero to infinite in nothing flat, and the various policy instruments (hello managed exchange rates!) to ease the transition.
Forests management (see the innovations in California, using the prototype of the North Yuba watershed, with both a Federal and a State carbon bank to finance the shift to TAC optimization) is one starting point.
Alas, being in California, in a benighted region infested with mountain folk who talk different, this innovation is studiously ignored by the University of California, which as an institution has not been happy with its experience with the cranky mountain folk.
Happily, the local freak with the most bodacious version of the CalArky dialect found the Etnnic Studies component of the ancient PEIS syllabus extremely useful for building an alliance among the local Indian entities and the loggers, to get work done in a way that works for everybody---and grows the expected value of the forests bank (in Tonnes Avoided CO2) in a most attractive and efficient fashion.
Frankly, you all should be having me back to Moses Hall to catch you up on some actual real political economy WORK.
We now have unionized loggers in the Northern Sierra, for the first time since the IWW heyday. IBEW this time. The Loyalton boys like Forests Union as a name, but then we always did like our acronyms. FU!
When is UCANR going to address its spectacular face-plant in Loyalton? Hmm? Need some more lessons in Practical Political Economy?
I got my bear-poking stick right here. Have a jab?
Why is Glenda Humiston still the University of California's Vice President of Natural Resources after calling the elected, appointed, and business elite of Sierra County "stupid.? Hmm?
Go Bears. Go on bear, Go. Git. (Slaps bear on nose, followed by a jab in the behind).
I learned bear jabbing as the first president of Berkeley's Political Economy Students Association, back before you were born, when I organized the frat boys and sorority sisters into a demonstration in Moses Hall, demanding equal rights for group major students to take Econ and PoliSci classes. Provost Park urged me to keep up the good work, that the University will screw up every time (my words!) without some jabbing.
I kind of want to apply the Tyson Critique (of worker-managed communism in Yugoslavia under Tito) to the University, but that might embearass [sic] my favorite teacher.
Good luck on the podcast. I read transcripts, but I do not like putting University content behind paywalls. Seems like some rent-grabbing to me.
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For one, if we are to survive as a planet, we need to turn "carbon pricing" from a prompt for squabbles about "green washing" and into a technical term which some of us would describe a the natural numeraire in the carbon economy, that maximizes avoided CO2, minimizes atmospheric CO2.
THe problem for the student of political economy is to understand the incidence of the change in the dollar/TAC exchange rate from zero to infinite in nothing flat, and the various policy instruments (hello managed exchange rates!) to ease the transition.
Forests management (see the innovations in California, using the prototype of the North Yuba watershed, with both a Federal and a State carbon bank to finance the shift to TAC optimization) is one starting point.
Alas, being in California, in a benighted region infested with mountain folk who talk different, this innovation is studiously ignored by the University of California, which as an institution has not been happy with its experience with the cranky mountain folk.
Happily, the local freak with the most bodacious version of the CalArky dialect found the Etnnic Studies component of the ancient PEIS syllabus extremely useful for building an alliance among the local Indian entities and the loggers, to get work done in a way that works for everybody---and grows the expected value of the forests bank (in Tonnes Avoided CO2) in a most attractive and efficient fashion.
Frankly, you all should be having me back to Moses Hall to catch you up on some actual real political economy WORK.
We now have unionized loggers in the Northern Sierra, for the first time since the IWW heyday. IBEW this time. The Loyalton boys like Forests Union as a name, but then we always did like our acronyms. FU!
When is UCANR going to address its spectacular face-plant in Loyalton? Hmm? Need some more lessons in Practical Political Economy?
I got my bear-poking stick right here. Have a jab?
Why is Glenda Humiston still the University of California's Vice President of Natural Resources after calling the elected, appointed, and business elite of Sierra County "stupid.? Hmm?
Go Bears. Go on bear, Go. Git. (Slaps bear on nose, followed by a jab in the behind).
I learned bear jabbing as the first president of Berkeley's Political Economy Students Association, back before you were born, when I organized the frat boys and sorority sisters into a demonstration in Moses Hall, demanding equal rights for group major students to take Econ and PoliSci classes. Provost Park urged me to keep up the good work, that the University will screw up every time (my words!) without some jabbing.
I kind of want to apply the Tyson Critique (of worker-managed communism in Yugoslavia under Tito) to the University, but that might embearass [sic] my favorite teacher.
Good luck on the podcast. I read transcripts, but I do not like putting University content behind paywalls. Seems like some rent-grabbing to me.