Jeremy Wallace
@jerometenk
China, stats, cities, climate // Gov Dept & East Asia Program @Cornell 万家瑞 | order Seeking Truth & Hiding Facts today
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http://jeremywallace.org 07-05-2009 01:19:49
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Join me today at 5pm for a conversation with former national security advisor Steve Hadley on China and U.S. policy CornellArts&Sciences Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy Einaudi Center @Cornellgov Register to watch: events.cornell.edu/event/us-natio…
If 10% of energy regulators had 10% of Jigar Shah’s vision & tenacity, the country (and world) would be much better off. Nobody deserves it more. time.com/6965193/jigar-…
This is an underappreciated point I emphasized w/ Robinson Meyer: excess spend on new peaking & grid capacity for mega-loads could crowd out other important capex necessary to modernize power system. heatmap.news/technology/ai-…
This is partly inspired by Dan Greene, but I wonder if the right way to think about what’s happening now in urban planning is what happened with food from 2006 to 2016. A big cultural shift happening in towns & cities everywhere as new ideas diffuse and office staff turns over.
April 23, join us for
PROFIT AND POWER
A conversation on profit, price, and the green transition, w/
Robinson Meyer (@heatmap_news)
Melanie Brusseler (@Cmmonwealth)
@kylechan (@princetonCCC)
and Brett Christophers, author of THE PRICE IS WRONG
Sign up: bit.ly/profit-power
Very exciting to join Ezra Klein again and to have my face next to the phrase “$1.7 million toilet” on the NYT home page
One of our big takeaways from running The COVID Tracking Project was that “cleaning” data to academic standards is actively deleterious for policy making in a crisis. Political leaders want decent data fast (with a primer on its epistemological constraints), not perfect data later.
I generally love Odd Lots and the unique approach to learning about markets that Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway take. LOVE IT. However, this podcast - in my area of expertise - could not have been more deceptive to the uneducated listener.