Remember “video-conferencing,” the technology once promoted as a substitute for business travel? Grainy video screens and telephone-quality audio proved to be a hard-sell, never displacing more than a tiny fraction of face-to-face contact. But now, thanks to the low cost of bandwidth and dramatic improvements in both hardware and software, …
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Professor Dieter Helm (Oxford) is a very fine fly fisherman, and an even better economist. If you haven’t done so, take a look at his new book “The Carbon Crunch: How We Are Getting Climate Change Wrong — and How to Fix It” for a bit of unconventional wisdom. He argues that politicians and the general public have not shown any real interest in addressing climate change. Helm argues that places like Europe should focus on setting a price for carbon that would cover consumption (and not just production), and that fracking could be a good “bridge” technology for reducing consumption of coal. The book is readable and insightful for those interested in the inside track on climate policy. 
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