How is public opinion? Find broader issue of the fragments in the aggregation response keywords that you type on your search engines. D'Amuri and Marcuci (2009) had thus improved estimates of U.S. unemployment rate using the keywords typed into Google
.* The Gaphique 1, extracted from their study illustrates the use ; the search engine as a crisis.
Figure 1: The research via Google
unemployment before and during the crisis 2007
is a subject that we were already interested in our post on the discount rate environment. At the time we wrote:
" The awareness of citizens about the environment and global warming was it fleeting? The craze for" green "[...] it seems to be faltering n 'There is little enough to be optimistic with regard to climate change, the tragedy of the commons applies ... strategic interactions between countries lead to a prisoner's dilemma, the situation where everyone is polluting a Nash equilibrium (Copenhagen). The difficulty in coordinating, tie their hands as Odysseus facing the sirens seem insurmountable as the time preference is high and low risk aversion in our future societies. "
The study Kahn and Kotchen (2010) goes in the same direction. The authors examine the use of keywords" climate change "and" unemployment "in the American States since the beginning of the economic crisis. Unsurprisingly they observe a high rate of unemployment reduces the research on climate change. To use a vocabulary a little bit micro-economic, the authors consider that the environment is a luxury good, that is to say that the application of this property is greatly reduced when income decreases slightly.
can only regret that a test of this hypothesis was not realized (what kind of test would you do?).
Conclusion (and yeah now, it's back holiday ...**)
What is now sixty-eighters? what have they done with their ideals ? The objective of zero growth of the 70, means nothing to a majority of them. The years of crisis, mass unemployment swept the sustainable development initiatives. Today, like yesterday, because the economic risk of primer on environmental grounds.
Indeed, because the economy of the environment is an economy of market failures - in the sense that each individual maximizing its own interests may affect the well being of its neighbors or their children - ; the state intervention is necessary. But in a democracy where men auscultate political public opinion overnight, and since public opinion is not stable on the environmental issue, I predict (again and alas) great years of inaction.
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Footnotes posts
* Hal Varian was the first to put forward this type of research as chief economist of Google (for an interview with the big boss of the microphone is here).
** speaking of holidays, some bloggers have written posts for this pretty sweet time, thank you and bravo to them. See Optimum for a nice point of macroeconomics, Arthur Charpentier to real questions about the jogging and random Rationality and limited dominacale reflection on the epistemology .
References
- Kahn, ME and MJ Kotchen (2010), "Environmental Concern and the Business Cycle: The Chilling Effect of Recession," NBER Working Paper 16241.
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