Two or three times a day, perfect strangers come up to me in the parking lot at the grocery store or the bank and ask about my hybrid car, a Toyota Prius. Stranger: How do you like your car? Me: I love it–it’s great. Stranger: Does it really get 50 mpg? Me: No, it’s doing […]
Eban Goodstein
Eban Goodstein is professor of economics at Lewis and Clark College and the author of two books and an economics textbook.
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Behind the Numbers: Polluted Data
In one case after another, both corporate lobbyists and academics have overestimated the costs of environmental regulation. Herewith the surprising explanation of why they’ve been consistently wrong.
