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Michael Ross
@MichaelRoss7
Natural resources, politics, economic development
Jan 17, 2023 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
New study on climate politics in @PNASNews with the awesome @paashamahdavi @chadhazlett @CesarBenAlvarez!

TDLR: political leaders have surprisingly little impact on fossil fuel taxes & subsidies

So what? Why does it matter? 🧵 Background: presidents & prime ministers often make big climate pledges. Yet they often accomplish little. We wanted to find out what kinds of leaders had the most success – not only adopting energy reforms but making them stick.
Aug 25, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read
Wonderful @nytimes piece shows how economists failed to understand the politics of climate policy.

But it's just half the story. Why not also mention the scholars who got it right, mostly in political science?

A 🧵(& h/t @thomasnhale) Carbon pricing might be "optimal" in an imaginary first-best world. But lots of recent evidence they don't make good public policy.

Some recent book-length studies make this point, most thoroughly in @dcullenward and Victor's brilliant book wiley.com/en-us/Making+C…
Aug 11, 2022 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
What can we learn about climate politics from the (long overdue) passage of the Inflation Reduction Act?

Two things:

1. Economists were wrong
2. Political scientists were right

A 🧵 Economists have long urged governments to adopt carbon taxes or cap-and-trade systems as a 'first best' policy. The idea of carbon pricing has dominated debates about climate policy -- in the US and globally -- for 3 decades.

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Aug 10, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
I just finished @mmildenberger's new book, Carbon Captured. It is one of the best social science books on climate politics I’ve ever read. Here are my 6 favorite things about it. 1/9 1. It takes on the most important question on the planet: why have governments done so little to reduce carbon emissions? 2/9
Aug 14, 2019 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
My paper “What do we know about export diversification in oil-producing countries?” is just out in Extractive Industries and Society. I know the topic sounds obscure, but it’s critical for global climate politics & development. Here’s why.

Thread By the way: here's an ungated copy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…