jivetalking: Recent Episodes
Jive Talking
Jive Talking is devoted to long discussions with interesting people. The theme of each episode depends on the guest and current events, so there's something for everyone. If you have questions or suggestions for guests, then please email me, David Zetland, at dzetland@gmail.com. Thanks for listening!
Episode 250: The final episode!JT playlist/archive: https://kysq.org/jt/index.htmlOstroms:https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=3214James C Scott: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/01/weapons-of-the-weak-the-review/Joseph Heinrich: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=723
Episode 249: Brandon Zicha is a senior assistant professor at LUC. He's appeared in JT episodes 67, 111, 169 and 179.https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/brandon-zicha#tab-1Is your major queer friendly? https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=4393Please submit questions for Episode 250 AMA here: https://forms.gle/kJsycYMEG8qQ75fi6
Episode 248: Tom Moran and I talk about my recent paper.The paper (open access):https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07900627.2023.2214640Life plus 2 meters: https://kysq.org/lp2m/Recent PWPE news: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/business/global-food-prices-volatility.htmlMontevideo, Uruguay running out of water: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=442790/10 "rule": https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=4250Thumbnail image from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29
Episode 247: Larissa van der Laan is a climate scientist and artist, currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark. She is a part of the first LUC cohort, graduating in 2013, majoring in sustainability.Profile: https://nbi.ku.dk/english/staff/?pure=en/persons/776862Twitter (also has art): https://twitter.com/LarissavdLaanLife + 2 meters: https://kysq.org/lp2m/Send your AMA questions for my final JY episode: https://forms.gle/BjY6RYAAV9GpQsQD9
Episode 246 (8 Aug 2023): Danny Damen graduated from LUC’s Global Politics major in 2014. He studied Crisis and Security Management and continued into an IT traineeship. These days he works as an incident handler for Tesorion, a Dutch cyber security company, helping organizations all over the globe who fall victim to cybercrime.
My review of Future Crimes: http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/03/review-future-crimes/
Episode 245 (6 Jul 2023): Camelia Vasilov is a Moldovan / Romanian. After she left LUC (International development major), she volunteered in her native Moldova and worked in the Netherlands for a nonprofit connected to international schools. She studied for an MSc in development in Sweden (with a GiZ traineeship in Ethiopia) and an online 'micromasters' in Data, Economics and Development Policy from MITx. She then worked for Innovations for Poverty Action for nearly 2 years in Liberia and moved back to Moldova, where she worked for the President to help with Ukrainian refugee crisis.
Moldova for Peace: https://moldovapentrupace.md/en/
Adopt a Vote, the Moldovan diaspora civic engagement group: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/why-is-moldovan-government-discriminating-against-diaspora/
MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy https://micromasters.mit.edu/dedp/
Episode 244 (6 Jul 2023): Pieter Sellies graduated from LUC's GED major in 2020 and today works as a campaigner for Fossil Free Netherlands. Outside of work he is also involved with grassroots organising for Extinction Rebellion and the FNV -- the largest labour union in the Netherlands.
The conference: https://www.globalclimatejobs.org/conference-2023/
The ING fossil free website: https://gofossilfree.org/nl/ing-fossielvrij/
Want to get involved with building worker power in times of climate crisis? https://netwerkklimaatfnv.nl
Suing McKinsey .https://www.drilled.media/enabling-fossil-fuel-addiction-is-it-really-just-about-money/
Episode 243 (29 Jun 2023): Anna-Liisa Merilind is an Alumna of LUC, having graduated summa cum laude from World Politics in 2020. She went on to earn a Masters degree in Trans-Atlantic Affairs and European security at the College of Europe and the Fletcher School in the US. She completed various internships next to and during her studies and now works as a Diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia.
Women in Innovation and Leadership https://www.womeninnovationleadership.org
Master of Arts in Transatlantic Affairs (MATA) https://www.coleurope.eu/study/master-arts-transatlantic-affairs-mata
Episode 242 (27 Jun 2023): Gorm Kipperberg is a Professor of Economics at the University of Stavanger Business School and holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis. Kipperberg is a passionate and renowned instructor who regularly publishes in leading field journals (e.g., Environmental and Resource Economics; Land Economics; Ecological Economics). He recently led the implementation of a large environmental valuation project and served on the Norwegian government’s expert committee on stormwater management.
UiS Business School professor of environmental economics: https://www.uis.no/en/gorm-kipperberg-new-professor-environmental-economics-uis
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=no&user=SRxi_swAAAAJ
Episode 241 (27 Jun 2023): Alex Pazaitis (https://www.p2plab.gr/en/alexpazaitis) is a researcher at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology and core member of P2P Lab (https://www.p2plab.gr/en/). He holds a PhD in Technology Governance and is leading parts of the COSMOLOCALISM (https://www.cosmolocalism.eu) and CENTRINNO projects. Alex has extensive experience from research and innovation projects and project management, and has worked as a consultant for private and public organizations. His research interests include digital commons; theory of value; innovation policy; cooperativism; and distributed ledger technologies.
David's review of The Secret of Our Success https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=723
Episode 240: Katlego Panama is a African heritage management practitioner by profession and a barista/specialty coffee enthusiast.
First appearance: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/229-katlego-panama-on-sowetos-neighborhoods-drugs-languages-football-fans-and-culture
Andre de Ruyter (poisoned CEO of eskom): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_de_Ruyter
Episode 239 (15 Jun 2023): Rhys Evans (https://hgut.no/om-hlb/tilsette/rhys-evans/) is a professor of Human Geography at the University College of Green Development in Bryne (‘Breena’) Norway. He works to create and share tools which help local people and communities engage in projects which deliver the improvements they have identified and are willing to work towards creating. A musician who also drove trucks for a living in Canada and the USA for 25 years, he began university at the age of 39 and likes to think that his ‘groundedness’ based upon how he worked for a living gives him an important insight into how development works for people and communities and he tailors his ‘tools’ to take that into account. Some of his tools include a model of Vocational Transition in Rural Europe; the Repurposing of Cultural Heritage Assets for the 21st Century Economy; Asset-based Rural Community Development, and Regenerative Development. His main activity is working with communities who wish to improve themselves -- using EEA grants.
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/204-rhys-evans-on-bottom-up-community-development
Episode 238: Paul Hudson is an American academic with training in physical geography and geomorphology. Hudson grew up in the U.S. Deep South and moved from Austin, Texas to the Netherlands in 2010, and has been at Leiden University College since 2012. Paul has been working on environmental river management for over 25 years, and he especially works on large lowland rivers engineered for navigation and flood control.
Flooding and Management of Large Fluvial Lowlands: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/flooding-and-management-of-large-fluvial-lowlands/26198940A02EAC087D7285200F4BEF4C#fndtn-information
Paul's webpage: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/paul-hudson#tab-1
Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2015/05/cartoon-introduction-to-climate-change-the-review/
Episode 237 (1 Jun 2023): Dániel Moerman is an historian of climate and environmental history at the VU Amsterdam. His current research focuses on the impact of drought within urban environments in the Netherlands between 1500 and 1900, and the long-term development of coping strategies to alleviate drought-induced water shortages. This research is part of the NWO-sponsored research programme Coping with Drought, which is expected to finish in until 2025.
Daniel's paper: "Documentary evidence of urban droughts and their impact in the eastern Netherlands: the cases of Deventer and Zutphen, 1500–1795"
https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2022/egusphere-2022-1141/
Episode 236: Tony Turton was exposed to the Kalahari as a small boy, where he observed the flow of water from the Okavango into a desert. He later served as a soldier fighting a war in the upper Okavango basin. He then became a peacemaker and scientist, writing about the Okavango. He holds a professorship in environmental management at the University of Free State and served as a Deputy Governor of the World Water Council, but his core skills are about water as a national security risk. Today he works with scientists, engineers and mathematicians, developing AI and ML systems for complex industrial fluids.My paper on the evolution of Dutch drinking water (and need to take over drinking water systems to protect public health): https://www.kysq.org/pubs/NL-DWCs.pdf
Episode 235 (28 Apr 2023): Thalie Ngugen, a student-researcher at LUC, and I discuss the uses (and abuses) of AIs and GPTs in an academic setting.
Episode 234 (24 Apr 2023): Robert Fletcher is an environmental anthropologist with research interests in conservation, development, ecotourism, globalization, climate change, social and resistance movements, and non-state forms of governance. He uses a political ecology approach to explore how culturally-specific understandings of human-nonhuman relations and political economic structures intersect to inform patterns of natural resource use and conflict. We discuss his new book, Failing Forward: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Conservationhttps://www.wur.nl/en/persons/robert-r-robert-fletcher-phd.htmhttps://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520390690/failing-forwardICCA ("territories and areas conserved by indigenous peoples and local communities” or “territories of life”): https://www.iccaconsortium.orghttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/359992734_A_Global_Conservation_Basic_Income_to_Safeguard_Biodiversity
Episode 233 (13 Apr 2023): Anthony was exposed to the Kalahari as a small boy, where he observed the flow of water from the Okavango into a desert. He later served as a soldier fighting a war in the upper Okavango basin. He then became a peacemaker and scientist, writing about the Okavango. He holds a professorship in environmental management at the University of Free State and served as a Deputy Governor of the World Water Council, but his core skills are about water as a national security risk. Today he works with scientists, engineers and mathematicians, developing AI and ML systems for complex industrial fluids.Motto: "The difference between could and should is wisdom."Prior appearance: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/227-anthony-turton-on-apartheid-and-the-end-of-anc-powerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rand_Waterhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpeville_massacre
Episode 232 (13 Mar 2023): Prof. Dr. René P. Orij is professor of corporate sustainability reporting at Nyenrode Business University. He is a member of Nyenrode's Faculty Research Center for Corporate Reporting, Finance & Tax.https://www.nyenrode.nl/en/faculty-and-research/people/p/rené-p.-orij
Episode 231 (9 Mar 2023): Tom Jenney lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. In Washington, DC and Phoenix, Tom has worked as a think tanker, fundraiser, grassroots organizer, and lobbyist. He has taught Government, Economics, and Spanish to high schoolers. He has served as a deacon and an elder at his church. He is happily married and is the adoring father of two children. In his free time, he backpacks, goes bouldering, and shoots a lot of clay targets.https://lilburneliterary.com/american-futures/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NationStates
Episode 229 (9 Mar 2023): Katlego Panama is a African heritage management practitioner by profession and a barista/specialty coffee enthusiast.
Episode 228 (2 Mar 2023): Ravi Kurani has dedicated his career to water safety. From his early days as a pool boy for his father's pool and spa business to the founder of Sutro, Ravi has always wondered why everyone can’t have clean water. He believes that being an entrepreneur is an honor he must earn daily since it gives him the ability to solve problems that not only makes money but help society.https://www.mysutro.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kuraniravi/
Episode 227(2 Mar 2023) : Anthony Turton was exposed to the Kalahari as a small boy, where he observed the flow of water from the Okavango into a desert. He later served as a soldier fighting a war in the upper Okavango basin. He then became a peacemaker and scientist, writing about the Okavango. He holds a professorship in environmental management at the University of Free State and served as a Deputy Governor of the World Water Council, but his core skills are about water as a national security risk. Today he works with scientists, engineers and mathematicians, developing AI and ML systems for complex industrial fluids.Tony's book: Shaking Hands with Billyhttps://www.polity.org.za/article/shaking-hands-with-billy-2011-01-20https://www.amazon.com/Shaking-Hands-Billy-Private-Memoirs-ebook/dp/B07Q6ZFQMW
Episode 226 (12 Jun 2014): This short monologue is still relevant, in terms of Saudi Arabia's culture, economy and sustainability (or lack thereof).
Episode 225 (16 Feb 2023): Lihi Lavie graduated GED in 2021, since than she worked as a financial analyst and as a personal assistant to the owner of a major impact investment fund focused on providing basic needs in the global south. In her spare time she also volunteers in the Israeli parliament as a parliamentary advisor to Labour MP in the Finance/Budgetary Committee. Tech Public policy and anti-trust enthusiast.
Episode 224 (16 May 2013): In this chat from the archives, Grant and I discuss the water used to produce energy from coal, natural gas, etc. Grant's LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-mcdermott-b8637419/
Episode 223 (8 Feb 2023): Iman Haqiqi got his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 2019 from Purdue University, where he is now a Research Economist working on Global to Local Analysis of Systems Sustainability (GLASS), a project looking at sustainability and food security challenges in a multi-disciplinary, multi-scale framework, i.e., evaluating the economic impacts of policies and shocks. One GLASS spatial model considers economic inputs (water, land, fertilizer, and labor) in relation to different ``market sheds'' Iman's pages:https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/network/member_display.asp?UserID=16116https://www.pches.psu.edu/iman-haqiqi-spotlight/GLASSNET: https://mygeohub.org/groups/glassnet GTAP: https://www.gtap.agecon.purdue.edu/about/presskit.aspx Tom Hertel: https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~hertel/
Episode 222 (2 May 2013): In this chat from the archives, Michael and I discuss real teaching and the problems with institutional reform when the "powers that be" don't want to let go.Michael also appeared in Episode 94 (Sep 2020) of Jive Talkinghttps://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/94-michael-strong-is-radically-improving-education
Episode 221 (27 Jan 2023): Tom Ferguson is the Managing Partner of Burnt Island Ventures, an early stage venture fund focused exclusively on the water sector. They closed their first $30m fund in February 2021, and have invested in 18 companies, supporting founders building solutions across the water value chain. Previously, Tom was VP Programming at Imagine H2O. He holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Harvard Business School.https://www.burntislandventures.com
Episode 220: This 2013 discussion is from the archives. You can also listen to Guillermo's Jive Talk with me from March 2022 https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/118-guillermo-donoso-on-success-and-failure-in-chiles-water-managementHis homepage: https://agronomia.uc.cl/Guillermo-Donoso-Harris
Episode 219: Peter Yolles is the founder and General Partner of Echo River Capital (https://www.echorivercap.com), an early-stage venture fund advancing water technologies for a positive global impact based in San Francisco. Peter is the former co-founder and CEO of WaterSmart.com, which was acquired by Vertex One in 2020. His water industry experience also includes roles at GE Capital, The Nature Conservancy and the Pacific Institute. Peter studied political science at CU-Boulder and graduated from Yale with a joint MBA and Master's in water science, management and policy.Monbiot's book: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/317018/regenesis-by-monbiot-george/9780241447642Earlier JT episodes:https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/196-jerry-gilbert-on-his-time-managing-ebmud-water-quality-diversity-and-californias-watershttps://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/208-david-wegner-on-the-past-and-future-of-the-colorado-river-basin
Episode 218: Vlad graduated in 2019 from LUC with a major in GED. Ever since, he worked a couple of odd jobs as well as having an internship in the Netherlands, before returning home to Romania in 2020. Since then, he worked as an English - Romanian Interpreter, and he is currently a Business Analyst at a corporation.https://www.econtalk.org/annie-duke-on-the-power-of-quitting/https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/09/baptists-and-bootleggers/
Episode 217 (recorded 10 Oct 2022): "It has been a difficult year for food supplies, and even more so for food markets...." Read the rest of the overview and get links of interest from https://www.eatthispodcast.com/speculation/
Episode 216 (30 Nov 2022): After graduating LUC in 2019 (GED major), Sean attended music school in Amsterdam. He is currently founder and president of Drunklover records, and bandleader of Daytime Lingerie.New EP https://open.spotify.com/album/59fc3MLTZu2ojjshLtfOUZDTL at Colorado Charlie https://youtu.be/mVAO9Z0n62gInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/daytimelingerie/?hl=en
Episode 215 (21 Nov 2022): Chris Daly is a trained coastal engineer and coastal geomorphologist, focusing his research on the dynamics of coastal sedimentary systems. He uses a combination of fieldwork, numerical modelling, and remote sensing techniques to study nearshore hydrodynamics and sediment transport processes mainly as a result of wave forcing. His education was undertaken at a number of well-recognised universities, with both his MSc and PhD studies done within international inter-disciplinary programmes. His career in coastal engineering started in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, while his scientific training and research was mainly done in Europe.
Episode 214 (13 Nov 2022): In this interview-episode, Cornelia asks me a few questions about the commons -- what they are, why they matter, and how we are (mis)managing them.To learn more, read my The Little Book of The Commons, which is free to download from https://www.kysq.org/lbc/
Episode 213 (17 Nov 2022): Samuel Ian Rosen (https://www.samuelianrosen.com) is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He's the Founder and CEO of Tap (https://linktr.ee/drinktap), a mission driven digital water company. His startups have raised over $150 million in venture capital and he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2015. Samuel is a digital nomad currently in Mexico City. He graduated from The University of Virginia with a Bachelor's degree in Commerce.Sam's portrait in the thumbnail is an NFT (JT first!): https://nft.coinbase.com/nft/ethereum/0x7943e478643c29eb0daafa44e7d643f7475597f5/6DZ's post on testing for water qualityhttps://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/04/delivering-water-quality-to-the-tap/
Episode 212 (17 Nov 2022): Oriane Wiser (https://www.linkedin.com/in/oriane-wiser-) is a young professional with an academic background in natural resource management. Since finishing her MSc in Climate Change and International Development she is working as Program Manager at The Global Sustainable Enterprise System (GSES). GSES (https://gses-system.com) is a SaaS platform that can measure, verify and rate sustainability performance of products and organizations. Transparent assessments based on Environmental, Social and Governance criteria are possible and accessible on the GSES platform. It’s a fight against greenwashing that Oriane proudly joined.
Episode 211 (recorded 3 Nov 22): Andrea Orza (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-orza-86468614a/) graduated from Leiden University College in 2021 in Governance, Economics and Development. She spent the last almost two years working in her country of origin, Romania, as a Personal Financial Advisor and Team Leader.
Links: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/revisionist-history/puzzle-rush https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/07/masters-of-useless/
Episode 210: Soazic Guezennec is a French visual artist who has lived in Berlin for 6 years. Prior to that, she was 6 years in India. She works with different media -- paint, video, installations, land art --- to question the relationship between human beings and their environment.
www.soazicguezennec.com
Episode 209: Matthew Pearson worked for a time with Living Water International. (He's since moved on to Moon Fabrications -- see JT episode below.) Back in 2012, we talked about his efforts to evaluate success in charitable programs aimed at bringing water to the poor, and there's a lot of depth in his replies. Listen in!
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/42-matthew-pearson-navigates-the-twists-of-life Moon Fab: https://moonfab.com
Episode 208 (4 Oct 2022): David Wegner (david.l.wegner@gmail.com) is currently a member of the Water, Science and Technology Board of the National Academy of Sciences and works part time for Woolpert Engineering on water, climate and financing for water infrastructure. He retired from the U.S. House of Representatives where he served on the Natural Resources and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees. He currently is writing on improving adaptive management of water resources by improving the governance and application of science. He lives in Tucson, Arizona in the epicenter of climate driven aridification of the Colorado River basin.
Episode 207: This discussion is from 10 years ago but it could have been yesterday. Jamie Workman, who has appeared since (see below), discusses his experiences and lessons learned while working on dams, with the bushmen of the Kalahari, and how to reform fisheries for long term survival.
Jamie's book, Heart of Dryness: http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/08/heart-of-dryness-the-review/
Prior JT episodes: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/27-jamie-workman-pays-water-savers https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/76-has-no-regrets-about-his-semi-random-life-path
Episode 206: Pieter Teer graduated from Leiden University College in 2021 and has spent the majority of the past months working at a development foundation based in Rwanda. In the coming year, he will pursue his masters at INSEAD, studying in France and Singapore.
Poverty Inc: http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/03/poverty-inc-the-review/
Appeared on episode 144
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/144-laura-and-pieter-reflect-on-grades-success-and-life
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Episode 205: In this 2012 episode, Shahram Javey (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjavey/) explains how he started Aquacue, his smart meter business, which he sold only a year later to the largest metering company in the US (see below). Shahram is still working on smart metering.
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/04/aquacue-gets-paid-for-innovation-and-customers-win/
Episode 204: Rhys Evans is a professor of Human Geography at the University College of Green Development in Bryne (‘Breena’) Norway. He works to create and share tools which help local people and communities engage in projects which deliver the improvements they have identified and are willing to work towards creating. A musician who also drove trucks for a living in Canada and the USA for 25 years, he began university at the age of 39 and likes to think that his ‘groundedness’ based upon how he worked for a living gives him an important insight into how development works for people and communities and he tailors his ‘tools’ to take that into account. Some of his tools include a model of Vocational Transition in Rural Europe; the Repurposing of Cultural Heritage Assets for the 21st Century Economy; Asset-based Rural Community Development, and Regenerative Development.
https://hgut.no/om-hlb/tilsette/rhys-evans/
Playlist on the history of Vancouver https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkSVuMuRES0i2llgOopErgNE3ebtR4-pW
Episode 203: Tony Allen (1937-2021) coined the term "virtual water." In this 2012 interview (sorry about the background noise), we discuss how he came up with the idea and the difficulty of getting politicians to pay attention to their lack of water (and food) security.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/07/tony-allan-obituary https://www.iwra.org/in-memoriam-tony-allan/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Allan
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/03/virtual-water/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/06/water-chat-tony-allan/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/11/all-studies-intending-to-use-a-virtual-water-strategy-to-solve-problems-of-water-scarcity-may-stop-now/
Episode 202: Jonatan Godinez Madrigal (jonatan.poe@gmail.com) was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. He first graduated from International Relations (2007) in the Jesuit University of Guadalajara, where he began working in the political ecology group of the Jesuit University where he conducted inter-disciplinary research on water conflicts and crises, but especially on the possibility of transforming water systems. With that spirit, he started his PhD at IHE Delft, focusing on a transdisciplinary action research project to analyse and transform the most intractable water conflict in Mexico, the Zapotillo conflict. He recently obtained his PhD last April and contributed to resolve and transform the Zapotillo conflict.
Slogan: "Water for everybody, water forever." ("Agua por todos agua para siempre")
Jonatan's dissertation: https://ihedelftrepository.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/phd1/id/60465/rec/1
A short article on his work with the community: https://www.un-ihe.org/news/mexico-ihe-delft-researchers-help-residents-three-towns-stave-flooding-threat-posed-dam
Episode 201: In this 2012 interview, Don Gaydon (https://people.csiro.au/G/D/Don-Gaydon) tells me about the complexities of irrigation in Australia.
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/05/water-chat-don-gaydon/
Episode 200: After 200 episodes, it's time for a little reflection. It was also Sep 11, so I start with some thoughts on the 9/11 attack, US exceptionalism and the need for global cooperation (see my Sep 12 2001 email below). Then I give some stats on the first 199 episodes, answer two questions from listeners, and discuss my book and papers (links below). Thanks to Cornelia, my GF, for sitting in the interviewer's seat!
My thoughts on 9/11 (12 Sep 2001): https://www.kysq.org/me/rants/r01.htm#WTC%20Attack
My post on energy policy failures (I added more to this 23 Aug 2022 post): https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=3791
Little Book of the Commons (free to download): https://www.kysq.org/lbc/
My papers on teaching water economics, utility performance and parking in Amsterdam: https://www.kysq.org/pubs.html
Questions, suggestions? Email d.j.zetland@luc.leidenuniv.nl!
Episode 199: In this 2012 episode from the archives, I discuss the challenges to water service in Palestine (which have only gotten worse). I cannot find any updated contact information for Thibaut Leloc’h, but his reflections are still valid.
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/04/water-chat-thibaut-leloch/
Episode 198: Gjalt and I are back for a discussion of improving access for smaller-scale renewable energy firms to markets. The current system, which favors large incumbents, leads to higher prices, less innovation and a slower shift to renewables!
Episode 197: This double-episode from the archives has a 2012 chat with Joe Troester (16 min) and Yoav Kislev (36 min) on two different water-related topics.
Joe explains the work he does in the Central African Republic.
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/04/water-chat-joe-troester/
Yoav explains the complexities of managing water in Israel (and Palestine). In 2 weeks, Episode 199 will have more on water, from the Palestinian side.
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/04/water-chat-yoav-kislev/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2014/08/urban-water-pricing-in-israel/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2014/09/israels-clear-cut-discrimination-is-our-responsibility/
Episode 195: In this episode from the archives (March 2011), I speak with Wim Bastiaanssen about Water Watch (now renamed eLeaf), a company that combines satellite technology with analytical algorithms to measure water consumption (ET less precipitation), cropping efficiency and a number of other important indicators of human and environmental activities.WW is heavily involved in the “more crop per drop” movement that focuses on reducing over- and under-irrigation (whatever the technology) while maximizing yield.
Water Watch started in the Netherlands, but they do a lot of survey work around the world (China, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, etc.).
Wim left WW (eLeaf) in 2014
Wim's profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wim-bastiaanssen-17ab7314/
https://eleaf.com/our-story/
Original post: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/04/water-chats-wim-bastiaanssen/
Episode 194: I speak with Colin Green, a mad monk and emeritus professor of water economics who misses flying around the world at other people's expense to do economic analyses of water problems. Listen and see what else we come up with!
Related: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/137-steve-keen-explains-how-nordhaus-screwed-up-his-climate-models
193: Another episode from the archives!
More information at this post: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/06/water-chat-with-jay-wetmore/
NB: There was a lot of background noise. I tried to dampen it.
Episode 192: We discussed Amanda and Kristin's paper, "Institutional Diversity and Safe Drinking Water Provision in the US," available (open access) at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957178721001405
Amanda Fencl is currently a AAAS Science-technology-and-policy--executive-branch fellow based in Washington DC. She has a PhD in geography from UC Davis where her work focused on climate and drought adaptation by drinking water systems in California. Her website is https://phdrought.wordpress.com
Kristin Dobbin is an NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences postdoctoral fellow in the Luskin Center for Innovation at UCLA. Her research focuses on the intersection between water governance and environmental justice. Currently she is working on several projects advancing the implementation of California’s law on a Human Right to Water (AB 685). Kristin holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from UC Davis. Her websites are https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/team/kristin-dobbin/ and www.kristindobbin.com
Related links:
https://drinkingwatertool.communitywatercenter.org/
UCLA LA county water governance map: https://lciwaterprojects.github.io/lacwatergovmap/
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/148-michael-campana-has-a-lifetime-of-x-disciplinary-wisdom-for-managing-groundwater
"Water civilization: The evolution of the Dutch drinking water sector”. https://www.kysq.org/pubs/NL-DWCs.pdf
Episode 191: This episode from the archives was originally recorded in May 2010. This post has more information and links: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/06/water-chat-with-tom-lauria/
Plastic recycling is a scam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJnJ8mK3Q3g
Episode 190: Ruard Hientzsch is a student at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam. He is working on his graduation thesis on the new laws and regulations regarding sustainable financing, with a focus on the Sustainable Finance Action Plan, Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, and EU “green energy” reporting regulations.
Related articles https://www.ft.com/content/ae78c05a-0481-4774-8f9b-d3f02e4f2c6f https://www.ft.com/content/0acb5e0f-8322-413f-911d-fda09951ea99
David's blog post on how natural gas can be dirtier than coal: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2014/06/is-natural-gas-the-next-ethanol/
Correction: 20, not 50 million Indians died in the opening chapter of The Ministry for the Future (a clifi book). My review: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=2876
Addition: Scientists have recently estimated that humans can only tolerate wetbulb temps of 31C, not 35C. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought/
Episode 189, from the archives (1 Mar 2010):
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/03/water-chat-with-mike-young/
Mike's webpage: http://www.myoung.net.au/water/
Episode 188: Ed Dolan holds a PhD in economics from Yale University. He has taught in the United States at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and George Mason University and Gettysburg College, and later at several universities in Europe, including American Institute of Business and Economics in Moscow, Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, for which he writes on climate economics, health care, and social policy.
Are Economists Wrong About Carbon Pricing? https://www.niskanencenter.org/are-economists-wrong-about-carbon-pricing/
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/168-ed-dolan-on-state-capacity-liberalism-and-prosperity
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/139-yoram-bauman-puts-economic-ideas-into-practice
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/137-steve-keen-explains-how-nordhaus-screwed-up-his-climate-models
The future of the human species https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=3514
Episode 187: Dr Adam Loch (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/adam.loch) is a Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow at the University of Adelaide. Prior to moving to South Australia Adam spent 10 years as a cotton grower and advocate for irrigators in Queensland and currently researches topics such as irrigator decision-making, water markets and institutional reform, transaction costs, and reallocation policy/program effectiveness.
Original post (2010): https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/03/water-chat-with-adam-loch/
For more on "failing to find a balance between agriculture and the environment," see my review of Dead in the Water: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=3254
Episode 186: Paul Behrens is BACK for another JT episode, this time discussing what economists get wrong about the costs and consequences of climate chaos.
Prior appearances: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/114-paul-behrens-on-writing-and-reading-books
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/102-paul-behrens-on-our-struggles-to-live-the-best-of-times
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/72-paul-behrens-brings-hope-to-our-sustainability-challenges
Episode 185: Here's another episode from the archives! In 2010, I talked with Tom Rooney, CEO of WaterFind (https://waterfind.com), on how (bulk) water markets work in Australia. They are complicated!
Some notes from the original recording: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/03/water-chat-with-tom-rooney/
Episode 184: Coming from a humble upbringing in a country where disenfranchisement is all too common, Kalo Filipov (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaloyan-filipov/) is an avid risk-taker who aspires to find a meaningful calling while simultaneously uplifting himself to a better standard of life. Completing the Governance, Economics and Development major at LUC deepened his affinity with the intricacies that shape the public policy process and revealed an avenue to find purpose within public policy-related research, advocacy and activism. He is now determined to develop as a public policy expert with a strong computational social science background and work on the issues of corruption, media influence and civil society engagement based on their relevance for European governance as well as for wider transitional contexts around the world.
Episode 183: Professor Lin Crase (https://people.unisa.edu.au/lin.crase) is Professor of Economics and Dean of Programs (Accounting & Finance). He joined UniSA in February 2016 as Head of School of Commerce. Prior to commencing at UniSA, Lin was Professor and Director of the Centre for Water Policy and Management at La Trobe University. Lin's research has focused on applied economics in the context of water. He has analysed water markets and the property rights that attend them, water pricing and numerous applications of water policy. Whilst his expertise includes the Murray-Darling Basin in Australia, he has also worked on projects in south Asia, Japan and Europe.
Original post: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/02/water-chat-with-lin-crase/
Dead in the Water review (Political fail in the MD Basin ) https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=3254
Episode 182: Jack is an associate climate risk and resilience engineer with Arup based in San Francisco. He specializes in flood risk engineering, multi-hazard resilience planning, and sea level rise adaptation. He previously worked for the US Army Corps of Engineers as a water resources engineer and also spent one year in Delft on a Fulbright Fellowship focused on comparing Dutch and American approaches to accounting for SLR in the planning of large scale flood infrastructure.
Ties is an associate Ties-shaped engineer at Studio Ties and Flows Productions, based in Molenpolder, Netherlands. He is affiliated with Delft University of Technology and World Wildlife Fund. He specializes in flood risk, the Dutch national water system, nature-inclusive engineering and landscape quality, on which he wrote a PhD Tiesis in 2017. When he was still young, he designed floating houses and cities. At the moment, he writes for national newspapers to influence the Dutch policy debate about sea level rise, housing and spatial planning, among other projects. His hobbies are, among other hobbies, macro economics!
Ties's original post (in Dutch) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/deltadebat-1-verstedelijking-anders-verdelen-over-ties-rijcken/
Delta commission report -- https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/01/learning-from-the-dutch/
Ties's Tiesis ("EMERGO - the Dutch flood risk system since 1986," in English) http://www.flowsplatform.nl/#/emergo---the-dutch-flood-risk-system-since-1986-1508416523282
Ties's favorite paper ("The End of the Netherlands," in Dutch) https://flowsplatform.nl/#/het-einde-van-nederland-1581499146796
David's Little Book of The Commons https://www.kysq.org/lbc/
Episode 181: This episode is from the archives. It was originally recorded on 4 Feb 2010 in Brisbane. At the time, I summarized it thus: "I spoke to John Quiggin of the University of Queensland about water issues in Australia and Queensland. I learned that California and Australia are similar in many ways (dams, salinity, politics, paper water rights, ag trading, desalination, etc.)
I was quite surprised to hear that Brisbane’s dramatic drop in per capita use (to 130 liters/capita/day) was accomplished with regulations more than prices. (BUT, they — the water managers — did pay a lot of attention to metered water volumes.)
John blogs and tweets on on Aussie economics and politics at:
https://johnquiggin.com
https://twitter.com/JohnQuiggin
Episode 180: Erica Gies (Twitter: @egies; www.ericagies.com) is the author of "Water Always Wins: Thriving in an age of drought and deluge." She's an independent reporter and National Geographic Explorer who writes about water, climate, plants, and critters for Scientific American, Nature, National Geographic, The New York Times, bioGraphic and other publications.
The best place for people to learn more about the book and buy it is: https://slowwater.world/ They can choose the UK or US version.
Here are a few stories Erica has written based on her reporting for the book:
California and paleo valleys: https://baynature.org/article/capturing-the-flood-in-californias-ancient-underground-waterways/
The Hyporheic Zone: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-revive-a-river-restore-its-hidden-gut1/
Chennai and the tanks: https://www.biographic.com/chennai-ran-out-of-water/
Peru and Indigenous infrastructure: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210510-perus-urgent-search-for-slow-water
Beijing and flooding: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/21/1041318/flooding-landscape-architecture-yu-kongjian/
Photo credit to Jill Beale
Episode 179: Joes and Brandon discuss their recent article (in Dutch) on the policy impacts of consolidating municipalities.
The article: https://www.mejudice.nl/artikelen/detail/herindeling-gemeente-bezint-eer-ge-begint
People vote for individuals in small municipalities: “Mensen stemmen op mensen” - StukRoodVlees
The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of the Right and Left: https://www.amazon.com/Great-Debate-Edmund-Burke-Thomas/dp/0465050972
Municipal amalgamations reduce voter turnout: https://www.coelo.nl/images/artikelen/Is_small_beautiful_Transitional_and_structural_effects_of_municipal_amalgamation_on_voter_turnout_in_local_and_national_elections.pdf
DZ's paper on Dutch water companies https://www.kysq.org/pubs/NL-DWCs.pdf
The Ostroms' 1977 paper ("Public Economy Organization and Service Delivery") http://hdl.handle.net/10535/732
Episode 178: Charles Fishman is a journalist, author and historian — and he’s joining me today because of his decade of reporting about water, which includes the bestselling book, “The Big Thirst,” which focuses on how people around the world solve their water problems -- or fail to solve them. Charles started work as a reporter for the Washington Post. His most recent book is “One Giant Leap,” about the race to the Moon in the 1960s. In our conversation, he will make a direct connection between flying to the Moon and tackling water and climate issues. Charles grew up in Miami, and now lives in Washington DC — where he has a three-foot-wide creek running through his backyard.
One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon https://herringbonebooks.indielite.org/book/9781501106309
My review of The Big Thirst http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/07/the-big-thirst-the-review/
Charles's favorite water tidbit: "When I was in San Pellegrino, in the north near the Italian Alps, I idly asked a question about the bubbles in San Pellegrino water. Turns out, San Pellegrino comes out of the ground “still.” The company owns a spring, with carbonated water, down in Tuscany. San Pellegrino captures that water, removes the CO2, purifies it, concentrates it, puts it in tankers, trucks it 350 miles up to the Alps — where San Pellegrino injects it into the San Pellegrino water coming out of the spring there. You can literally trace the CO2 trail of the CO2 in the Pellegrino water."
“Message in a Bottle” (about Fiji water) https://www.fastcompany.com/59971/message-bottle
Is the glass half empty or half full? (DZ as pessimist) https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=23
Tracing anthropogenic carbon dioxide and methane emissions to fossil fuel and cement producers, 1854--2010 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0986-y
Polluting businesses are moving into the financial shadows https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/02/12/the-truth-about-dirty-assets
Episode 177: Alessandro Cercaci is studying International Relations and Organizations at Leiden U, Leane Jupet is thinking about GED at LUC, and Nick Weerdenburg is studying history at Leiden U. The team is doing a “think tank report” for "A Better World Is Possible” — a course in the Honours College of Governance and Global Affairs.
Women as Policy Makers: Evidence from a Randomized Policy Experiment in India http://economics.mit.edu/files/792
Episode 176: Vanessa Casado Pérez is an Associate Professor and Dean’s Reseach Chair at Texas A&M School of Law and has a joint appointment with the Department of Agricultural Economics. Her scholarship focuses on property and natural resources law, with a particular focus on water markets. She holds a doctoral degree from NYU, an LLM from the University of Chicago, and a several other law and economics degrees. She is originally from a rural village not too far from Barcelona.
Episode motto: "Hard choices are not taken when “emergency measures” are on the table."
Whose Water? Corporatization of a Common Good https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3985619
Rango review https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/09/monday-funnies-290/
MWD-PVID deal: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/03/water-chats-smith-of-pvid/
The water data hub https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/03/the-water-data-hub-is-live/
Episode 175: Jerry Gilbert is a California water professional engineer. He was educated at the University of Cincinnati and Stanford, with experience in large and small utility management.He has been a leader of government agencies and associations both national and international.
Jerry's previous episode: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/166-jerry-gilbert-managed-california-waters-for-decades
Episode 174: Clara Amado Vega (https://www.linkedin.com/in/claraamadovega/) trained as an architect and urbanist in Spain and worked for five years internationally before studying for her masters degree in Governance of Sustainability at Leiden University. In that program, she focused on creating more biodiverse and sustainable cities and wrote a thesis on the vulnerability of Dutch cities and citizens to impacts of the Urban Heat Island effect. Going forward, she wants to focus on evidence-based policy development, enabling change in the sustainability field, and bridging the gap between science, technical experts and policymakers.
Her thesis https://ssrn.com/abstract=4049664
Why we’re failing to stop climate chaos https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=2848
Episode 173: Robert Chesal is a journalist and university lecturer. He's been reporting for Dutch news media since the early 1990s, working in radio, print, television and online. Robert's won the Journalist of the Year award for investigative reporting in 2011. Since 2013 he's been teaching journalism at LUC and in the Masters program in Groningen.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertchesal/ https://twitter.com/RChesal
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/12/13/technology/china-propaganda-youtube-influencers.html
The China story (links from day 1, and day 2, when we did a follow up on China's influence operations and reported on the VU Amsterdam shutting down the human rights center's website) https://nos.nl/artikel/2413702-china-financiert-onderzoek-naar-mensenrechten-aan-vu https://nos.nl/artikel/2413806-waarom-wil-china-invloed-uitoefenen-op-nederlandse-academici https://nos.nl/artikel/2414560-mensenrechtencentrum-vu-staakt-alle-activiteiten
The Guardian and Politico picked up the story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/25/dutch-university-gives-up-chinese-funding-due-to-impartiality-concerns https://www.politico.eu/article/dutch-university-amsterdam-scandal-taps-china-influence/
On the sex abuse in the church story, this was the very first scoop (the English version was archived on the Wayback Machine, luckily): https://web.archive.org/web/20100301040953/http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2493257.ece/Child_sex_abuse_in_Dutch_Catholic_Church_revealed
The last article we published together on the subject was in 2016, after the film Spotlight won 2 Oscars. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2016/03/19/destijds-moesten-ze-zwijgen-nu-weer-1602738-a697882
Rik Rutten's story in De Correspondent https://decorrespondent.nl/6704/bijles-voor-eindexamens-is-booming-en-daarmee-de-onderwijsongelijkheid/930836737248-54a113a4
Episode 172: Spencer Harris is a geologist from the central coast of California. He is a licensed California professional geologist and holds a masters degree in applied geoscience from the University of Pennsylvania. He has applied cross-disciplinary technology to solve water problems in Arizona, California and Rhode Island. He's the co-founder of Basin Logix, a startup that offers a unique (blockchain) solution to groundwater management.
https://www.basinlogix.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_Groundwater_Management_Act
A blog post on managing water https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/05/chris-perry-on-water-rights/
Episode 171: Paul Preux has a love for his hometown, Brussels, and a passion for enabling transitions in cities. After completing his bachelor's degree in "governance, economics and development" Paul implemented educational smart city projects in Brussels for Gluon. After finishing a masters in "managing infrastructure for green cities", he worked at Arcadis.
Julian Cortes is passionate about protecting the environment. He has a bachelor's degree in "earth, energy, and sustainability" and a master's degree in "environmental studies and sustainability science". Julian currently works at the European Landowner's Organization where he focuses on rural sustainability and entrepreneurship.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bioflux-eu
Here’s the 2009 post: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/04/neat-ideas/
Episode 170: James Eaves, Ph.D., is an agricultural economist and professor at Laval University. His research focuses on how emerging technology can improve the profitability and sustainability of controlled-environment agriculture. He is also the Director of Indoor Agriculture at VoltServer and formally the Head of R&D at Greenseal Cannabis company.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameseaves/
Episode 169: Brandon Zicha is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at LUC. His research and teaching interest focus on how information is processed by social and political institutions and used to make collective decisions in modern societies, as well as the careful use and informed understanding of quantitative scientific methods for understanding social issues.
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/brandon-zicha#tab-1
Boris Johnson does NOT accept accountability https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/01/22/the-parable-of-boris-johnson
Episode 168: Ed Dolan holds a PhD in economics from Yale University. He has taught in the United States at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and George Mason University and Gettysburg College, and later at several universities in Europe, inclding American Institute of Business and Economics in Moscow, Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, for which he writes on climate economics, health care, and social policy.
Ed's last appearance in JT #61 https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/61-ed-dolan-explains-why-we-need-carbon-pricing
State Capacity and Liberal Democracy: Where Does America Stand in the World? (Dec 2021) https://www.niskanencenter.org/state-capacity-and-liberal-democracy-where-does-america-stand-in-the-world/
How Liberal Is America? (May 2021) https://www.liberalcurrents.com/how-liberal-is-america/
America’s Social Protection Gap and What to Do About It (May 2021) https://www.niskanencenter.org/americas-social-protection-gap-and-what-to-do-about-it/
North, Wallis and Weingast (2006) A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History http://www.nber.org/papers/w12795
Episode 167: After 17 months, Mike is back to discuss Covid, markets and the real world. The conversation covers (in no particular or logical order) inflation, the great resignation, stock market bubbles, interest and debt markets, retail investors, and other topics.
The last episode was on 4 Aug 2020! https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/88-mike-and-david-discuss-markets-and-coronavirus-part-3
Which economies have done best and worst during the pandemic? https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/which-economies-have-done-best-and-worst-during-the-pandemic/21806917
Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MSPUS
Money has never felt more fake https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22832438/nft-gamestop-amc-crypto-bubble
What will happen to inflation in 2022? https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2021/11/08/what-will-happen-to-inflation-in-2022
The superbubble is ready to burst: https://www.gmo.com/europe/research-library/let-the-wild-rumpus-begin/
Episode 166: Jerry Gilbert is a California water professional engineer. He was educated at the University of Cincinnati and Stanford, with experience in large and small utility management.He has been a leader of government agencies and associations both national and international.
My dissertation on MWD: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1129046
The MWD-PVID water trade: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/04/from-farms-to-cities/
Episode 165: Adam Fisher (https://www.adamfisher.org) grew up in Silicon Valley playing Atari, programming computers, and reading science fiction. He still lives in the Bay Area but now spends his time thinking about the future, tracing its origins, and writing about it. Valley of Genius is his first book. His second book, Designing Ideas, is about Yves Behar. When he's not writing about the evolution of ideas, he works as a private historian, writing bespoke biographies for the world's tech billionaires.
Adam's writing at Alta https://www.altaonline.com/author/960295/adamfisher/
My review of Valley of Genius https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=355
Affiliate links to buy Valley of Genius (https://amzn.to/3rR5Acx)and Designing Ideas (https://amzn.to/3GssHyf)
Episode 164: Paul Vriend graduated from LUC in 2018, majoring in Earth Energy and Sustainability. He went on to do an internship at the Ocean Cleanup and a master degree in Environmental Science at Wageningen University. For the past three years Paul has been studying macroplastic pollution in rivers, which has landed him a job at the Dutch government where he is currently part of a team that is exploring the possibilities for a national monitoring strategy for riverine macroplastic pollution.
Paul's research on Google Scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hUn7nbwAAAAJ
David cleaning up plastic in Egypt https://youtu.be/dXJEuMLTumY
It's time for a winter break!
You can see all 8 playlists (to binge on past episodes according to theme) right here: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/sets
See you in 2022!
Episode 163: Allan Bekker is a California native from the Central Valley region. He currently works as a water resources manager for a small private water company in the southern Central Valley and is deeply interested in water management institution's movement toward more efficient/sustainable practices. He is interested in pursuing a graduate degree in economics to focus his understanding of water markets and potentially allow him to influence more aspects of the industry. He is seeking advice and guidance from economists to help define what his next steps will be related to a graduate degree in economics.
The role of prices in managing water scarcity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468312420300237
Living with Water Scarcity http://www.kysq.org/lwws/
Episode 162: Cynthia Koehler is an environmental attorney and water policy expert with 30 years of experience working on federal and state water and natural resource issues. She is the co-founder and executive director of WaterNow Alliance, a nonprofit network of local water leaders advancing sustainable, equitable and climate resilient water management strategies nationwide, with a particular focus on innovative infrastructure finance and policy. She has served for the last 16 years as an elected Board Director for Marin Water, a public water provider serving a population of 200,000 people and responsible for managing 21,000 acres of watershed lands. She is an appointed member of the US EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board (EFAB) Council, and served previously on US EPA’s Local Government Advisory Committee, and Governor Brown’s Urban Advisory Group. She worked previously as the Legislative Director for California water issues for the Environmental Defense Fund, and is the recipient of The Bay Institute’s Hero of the Bay Award, as well as other commendations for her environmental leadership.
Cynthia @ WaterNow https://waternow.org/member/cynthia-koehler-3/
Next Door in MT https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/us/politics/montana-misinformation-national-heritage.html
Chapter 2 of Living with Water Scarcity is all about subsidies https://www.kysq.org/lwws/
PFAS (John Oliver): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W74aeuqsiU
Episode 161: Angela van der Berg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-van-der-berg-62b7b391/) is the Acting Director of the newly established Global Environmental Law Centre at the University of the Western Cape's Faculty of Law in South Africa. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Public Law and Jurisprudence where she runs and teaches in the LLM (masters) in Environmental Law. Angela's interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on future-orientated environmental law and governance research aimed at advancing sustainability under conditions of unprecedented environmental change. Much of this research is geared towards developing reflexive and responsive legal frameworks and governance structures fit for addressing complex social, economic and environmental challenges resulting from Anthropogenic climate change.
Winters vs USA (1908) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winters_v._United_States
NZ river with “personhood” https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/features/innovative-bill-protects-whanganui-river-with-legal-personhood/
Episode 160: Adriaan ter Braack (www.adriaanterbraack.nl) is a science journalist interested in the vast emptiness of the universe and humans inability to deal with that. Also, he likes dogs.
Het universum is een klootzak https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/het-universum-is-een-klootzak/9300000039903383/
Episode 159: Jesse Thompson ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessethompson/) is a lifelong Green who has made the rounds in the film and tech industries from Hollywood to Silicon Valley and now to London. As a fan of The Terminator, Blade Runner and The Matrix, he's always had an eye on the future, inspiring The Singularity Conference at Stanford University. He's now working on a cli-fi novel about how the world will or won't learn its lessons from the aftermath of this century's impending climate fallout.
George Carlin: The Earth doesn’t need us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
Life Plus 2 meters project https://kysq.org/lp2m/
Sleepwalking into the Matrix https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=1017
50 major companies emitting 63% of cumulatrive GHGs https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-013-0986-y
Episode 158: Kathryn Roscoe is a senior researcher at Deltares, working on adaptive flood risk and resilience planning, and developing tools and approaches to support decision-makers. She grew up in Miami and followed her love of Steinbeck to the central valley of California to study Physics at CS Chico and Hydrology at UC Davis before selling all her stuff and moving to the Netherlands. She got her PhD in Hydraulic Engineering from the Delft University of Technology, where she worked on algorithms behind the Dutch probabilistic flood defense assessments. At Deltares she focuses on flood resilience planning under uncertain future conditions. As the U.S. and Canada coordinator, she connects Deltares to researchers and government agencies that want to collaborate on topics such as operational water management, coastal modeling, and climate adaptation and resilience.
KR @ Deltares: https://www.deltares.nl/en/experts/kathryn-roscoe/ KR @ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrynroscoe/
Adaptation Pathways video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLS4PubQVgc
Life Plus 2 meters https://kysq.org/lp2m/
Comparing (un)known (un)knowns https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=2976
Flows https://flowsplatform.nl
Episode 157: Dr. Rami Zurayk (https://www.aub.edu.lb/pages/profile.aspx?memberId=rzurayk) is a professor in the department of Landscape Design and Ecosystem Management at the American University of Beirut (AUB). At AUB, Rami directs the Food Security Program and coordinates the Rural Community Development Program. Besides these topics, his work focuses on sustainable diets and nutrition, sustainable food systems, and the political ecology of food security and agriculture in the Arab world. He obtained his BSc and MSc from the American University of Beirut and his DPhil from Oxford University.
Rami tweets at https://twitter.com/FoodPandemic
Martin Keulertz on food security and renewables in the Middle East https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/15-martin-keulertz-says-solar-will-free-the-middle-east
Episode 156: Julio Berbel is a Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Cordoba where he coordinates the research group ‘WEARE’ (Water, Environmental, Agriculture and Resource Economics), which works on environmental management, agribusiness and biotechnology. He holds a PhD in Agricultural Engineering (Univ. Córdoba) and a Masters in Agricultural Economics (Univ. Manchester). He has consulted for the European Commission, Spanish Government and other public administrations and private stakeholders. He combines hand-on experience in environmental and agribusiness sector with academic and scientific perspectives.
Julio's homepage https://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/weare/people/julio-berbel/
JT on blockchain and farmers https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/07-keith-agoda-connects-farmers
David's posts on footprints https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/02/four-billion-facing-severe-water-scarcity-i-think-not/
David's posts on diversions vs return flows https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/05/chris-perry-on-water-rights/ http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/02/water-rights-diversion-or-consumption/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2015/03/the-problem-is-water-consumption-not-use/
Episode 155: Achim Häger is a forest ecologist. He received his doctorate in forestry from the University of Goettingen. Achim is from Germany but lived 15 years in Costa Rica, where he taught undergraduate and graduate programs at the Organization for Tropical Studies, School for Field Studies, and the University of Costa Rica. Achim worked briefly as a consultant for the FAO in Mozambique before joining LUC in 2020. Achim's research is about the relationships between biological diversity and ecosystem services in forests and agroforestry systems. He is now researching similar relationships in dune ecosystems.
Achim's homepage: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/achim-hager#tab-1
"Outside the environment" (a classic spoof) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
Seeing like a state: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/04/19/reviews/980419.19graylt.html
Episode 154: Daniel Kapellmann Zafra (www.kapell.tech) is a Technical Analysis Manager for Mandiant where he oversees the strategic coverage of cyber physical threat intelligence and coordinates the development of tools and solutions to collect and analyze data. He is a frequent speaker on industrial control systems and operational technology at international conferences. His background is multidisciplinary with work experience across various industries. As a former Fulbright scholar, he holds a master’s degree from the University of Washington specialized in Information Security and Risk Management. In 2017, he was awarded first place at Kaspersky Academy Talent Lab's competition for designing an application to address security beyond anti-virus.
"The Paris Call" principles for trust and security in cyberspace https://pariscall.international/en/principles
The Tallin Manual for "cyber" conflict from NATO https://ccdcoe.org/research/tallinn-manual/
Their toolkit on cybersecurity regulation https://cyberlaw.ccdcoe.org/wiki/Main_Page
Daniel's favorite recent reflection on global cybersecurity challenges https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/12/17/cyberattacks-cybersecurity-solarwinds-fireeye/
David's review of Future Crimes: http://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/03/review-future-crimes/
John Oliver on ransomware https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqD-ATqw3js
Episode 153: Lieke Schreel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liekeschreel) is a medievalist turned educational scientist. She is a pioneer who likes to build new organisations with a huge passion for education. After five years teaching Dutch and Medieval Dutch Literature at Trinity College Dublin, she joined University College Utrecht in 2000. At this first Liberal Arts & Sciences college in the Netherlands, she combined tasks in teaching, administration and student support. In 2009 she helped set up Leiden University College, with responsibility for development of the curriculum and accreditation. As her interest in the governance and administration of universities grew, Lieke left LUC in 2021 for the University of Twente, where, as the Director of the Center of Educational Support, she is responsible for student and course administration, student support and scholarships, educational support and language courses.
Masters degrees fail students in the NL: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/07/masters-of-useless/
Episode 152: Dr. Eban Goodstein is an economist and Director of the Center for Environmental Policy and the MBA in Sustainability at Bard College in New York, USA. He has coordinated a series of international educational initiatives on climate change involving over 2500 colleges, universities, high schools and community organizations worldwide. He is the author of a college textbook (Economics and the Environment, now in its ninth edition), Fighting for Love in the Century of Extinction: How Passion and Politics Can Stop Global Warming; and The Trade-off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment. Dr. Goodstein has published in distinguished academic journals and the popular press. He holds a B.A. (Geology) from Williams College and a Ph.D. (Economics) University of Michigan.
Worldwide Teach-In on Climate and Justice https://gps.bard.edu/world-wide-teach-in
Schools that have already signed up https://earthday.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/3099472c8d794908917c23d06dffd2cb
Episode 151: Lois Henry has been a journalist in the San Joaquin Valley for more than 30 years working at the Fresno Bee and The Bakersfield Californian. Over the years, she covered the aerospace and oil industries as well as city, county and state government. She left newspapering in 2017 and started an online publication called SJV Water that focuses exclusively on water in the SAn Joaquin Valley. She is married and lives in Bakersfield with four dogs and two cats.
SJV Water can be accessed at www.sjvwater.org
Episode 150: After more than a decade of launching & running Couchsurfing, the largest trust experiment of all time with 20M+ users, Casey Fenton (https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyfenton/) has turned his attention to one of the biggest trust & cooperation challenges in business: Company ownership. His latest startup, Upstock (upstock.io), makes it easy for small- and medium-sized businesses to offer Fortune 1000-level equity to their workers without expensive and time-consuming lawyers.
Links David mentioned
https://www.couchsurfing.com
https://waag.org/en/article/airbnb-harming-amsterdams-communities
The Secrets of Our Success (same author of a new book on WEIRD…) https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=723 <=== social capital and evolution. Great book!
Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com https://www.inputmag.com/features/rise-and-ruin-of-couchsurfing
Episode 149: David Mancera, a Salinas Valley native, has a unique relationship with the local agricultural community. David got his first exposure to agriculture at a very young age, contributing to his migrant family’s income. David is a Director for Kitchen Table Advisors (https://www.kitchentableadvisors.org/), a Northern California-based nonprofit organization whose mission is contributing to the economic viability of small sustainable farms and ranches through practical business advising and building relationships.
ALBA: https://www.albafarmers.org/
\California Farmlink: https://www.californiafarmlink.org/
Episode 148: Michael E. Campana is a 'pracademic' who, for 45 years, has taught and conducted groundwater research at universities in Nevada, New Mexico and now, Oregon (since 2006). He focuses on Managed Aquifer Recharge (MAR) & water supply resilience these days but has also broadedned his horizons to include Integrated water resources management and adaptation. He is the founder and CEO of the hydrophilanthropy Ann Campana Judge Foundation that funds/conducts Water and Sanitation projects in Honduras.
Ann Campana Judge Foundation: www.acjfoundation.org
Managed Aquifer Depletion (MAD) and ethics: https://www.nxtbook.com/naylor/AWRAS/AWRAS0218/index.php?startid=10#/p/20
Actual World, Possible Future (a biographical film on the Ostroms) https://www.pbs.org/video/actual-world-possible-future-09rkab/
Fracking and politics in ND https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/08/06/north-dakota-republicans-oil-fracking-environment-502308
Episode 147: Erik Nordman is a professor of Natural Resources Management at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, USA. He teaches courses in the economic, policy, and social dimensions of natural resources and the environment. In 2019-2020, Nordman was a visiting scholar at Indiana University’s Ostrom Workshop where he continues to collaborate as a faculty affiliate. His book, The Uncommon Knowledge of Elinor Ostrom, published by Island Press, is already out in the US and will be coming out in other countries later this year.
https://islandpress.org/books/uncommon-knowledge-elinor-ostrom
The Ostrom Workshop https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/
Actual World, Possible Future (a biographical film on the Ostroms) https://www.pbs.org/video/actual-world-possible-future-09rkab/
DZ's post on the 2x2 (Ostroms 1977 article on funding municipal services) https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=258
The Power of Giving Away Power with Matthew Barzun and Kamal Ahmed https://play.acast.com/s/intelligencesquared/thepowerofgivingawaypowerwithmatthewbarzunandkamalahmed
Shopclass as Soulcraft https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=2891
Episode 146: Shi-Ling Hsu (https://myweb.fsu.edu/shsu/) is the D'Alemberte Professor of Law at the Florida State University College of Law, where he served as Associate Dean for Environmental Programs from 2015 to 2019. Prior to his current appointment, Professor Hsu held other academic, governmental and private practice positions. Professor Hsu has degrees in electrical engineering, law, ecology and agricultural and resource economics. He has taught environmental and natural resource law, climate change, law and economics, quantitative methods, and property law. He has 60+ publications and is the author of _The Case for a Carbon Tax_ and the co-author of _Ocean and Coastal Resources Law_. In October 2021, his next book comes out: _Capitalism and the Environment: A Proposal to Save the Planet_
Article discussing hogs/water-quality costs (and much more!) https://myweb.fsu.edu/shsu/publications/94OreLRev23.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_meat_consumption#Meat_consumption_by_country
David's blog post on new-world resource culture... https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/10/columbus-and-the-destruction-of-endless-resources/
Episode 145: Daniel Lippman (https://www.politico.com/staff/daniel-lippman) is a reporter covering the White House and Washington for POLITICO (a internet news site that mostly focusses on US politics). He was previously a co-author of POLITICO's Playbook (Politico's daily newsletter) where he still contributes regularly. Daniel has worked as a reporter since graduating from George Washington University in 2012.
Episode 144: Laura Herren and Pieter Teer recently recently graduated from Leiden University College (LUC), majoring in Governance, Economics, and Development (GED). Laura is now working in Nepal for Swiss Contact, a private Swiss foundation carrying out development projects worldwide. Pieter is working to gain experience in a variety of areas, to help him choose a suitable graduate program.
Laura: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-herren/ Pieter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pieter-teer-06281212a/ Pieter's valedictorian speech: https://youtu.be/01cOJZTu-vk?t=2435
Shop class as soul craft (review to come!): https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/shop-class-as-soulcraft
Episode 143: Simone Callioni (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-callioni-81828ba/) received his masters degree in industrial chemistry from the University of Milan in 2000. Since then, he has worked on municipal and industrial water treatment in Italy, UAE, India and the US. Simone began his career focusing on ultrafiltration membranes and then on using biological systems to desalinate drinking water, reuse wastewater and assess Zero Liquid Discharge systems. He's now working on reducing the water footprint for industrial projects.
Episode 142: Alexandra Campbell-Ferrari is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Water Security and Cooperation (CWSC). Specializing in water security and WASH law, Alexandra works with stakeholders spanning from civil society groups and nonprofits to governments to understand, evaluate, and innovate in water law to achieve water security and universal access to WASH (Water, Sanitation, Hygiene). In addition, Alexandra teaches water law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and the American University Washington College of Law.
Luke Wilson is the Co-Founder and Deputy Director of The CWSC. Specializing in international law, Luke works with a wide range of stakeholders to activate international law and water law to achieve water security and greater cooperation. In addition, Luke teachers international law at The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs.
Center for Water Security and Cooperation: http://www.ourwatersecurity.org
RENEWAL, the water security and WASH law legal platform: http://law.thecwsc.org
BLUE Phone is our legal technical assistance unit dedicated to Building Legal Understanding and Engagement by working with governments and non-governmental stakeholders to strengthen their law and institutions, and active stronger, more active civic engagement and awareness.
Episode 141: Karel Thieme was born 65 years ago in Rotterdam. He's a father and grandfather and has been a Genuine Tea ambassador & Pure Water pioneer for the past 40 years. After passionately reviving tea culture by promoting preparation with purified water, he has focussed since 2010 on a mission of "Pure Water for All.” Karel and his friend Olivier Olmer run their company Aquapeak (www.aquapeak.nl), which offers an innovative water purifier that removes undesirable residues of medicines, chemicals, pesticides, viruses, hormones, nano-plastics, lead and other heavy metals form water.
Episode 60: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/60-karel-thieme-enjoys-the-magic-of-clean-water
Weekly (Saturday-morning 10.30) PFAS/Forever Chemicals-protest at the gate of Chemours in Dordrecht: https://www.facebook.com/groups/946663375478643
Aquapeak-reviews: https://www.facebook.com/echtzuiverwater/reviews/?ref=page_internal
Episode 140: Mario Simmaco (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-edoardo-simmaco-a327a1172/) is an Italian Leiden University College student interested in economics and sustainability. He is the founder of the international student podcast, Eutopya (https://www.eutopya.org), of the farming start-up GreenAnt (https://www.greenant.farm) and is also a founding member of the Youth Forum of the Pontifical Council of Culture (http://www.cultura.va/content/cultura/en/organico/consultag.html).
Episode 138: Daniela Alvaran (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniela-alvaran/ ) is originally from Mexico and a recent LUC graduate with a degree in Governance, Economics, and Development. She is currently navigating the thrilling yet uncertain world of entrepreneurship - which entails falling, learning, and growing.
PLNT: https://plnt.nl/en/
Venture Academy (start-up incubator) https://plnt.nl/en/program/venture-academy-english-2/
Episode 137: Steve Keen is a a Professor of Economics and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Strategy, Resilience and Security at University College London. He's the author of Debunking Economics and Can We Avoid Another Financial Crisis? and has published on nonequilibrium macroeconomics, environmental economics, the role of energy in production, critiques of Neoclassical and Marxian economics, monetary dynamics, empirical data on causes of financial crises, and economic methodology. Steve gets bottom-up support via Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/ProfSteveKeen)
``The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change'' [$$] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14747731.2020.1807856
A shorter op/ed on Nordhaus https://www.themintmagazine.com/nordhauss-nobel-prize-is-safe-but-the-world-isnt
David's blog post on an (ig)nobel tragedy (Weitzman vs Nordhaus) https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=1229
Episode 136: Danielle Anderson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daninanderson/)recently graduated from the Master of Urban Planning program of the University at Buffalo with specializations in economic development and community health & food systems. During the past three years she has gained knowledge in local and international planning techniques while developing skills in research, survey design, data collection, team coordination, and project management. Her interests include water resource management with goals to work on projects that increase access to clean water sources, improving deteriorating water infrastructure, water governance, and conserving fresh water in Global South countries. Her interests also lie with programs to improve livelihoods and health of community members and the environment.
Danielle's 2019 query: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=1193
The Newark story (rapid lead line replacement): https://www.economist.com/united-states/2021/04/17/replacing-lead-pipes-a-newark-success-story
Delivering water quality to the tap https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/04/delivering-water-quality-to-the-tap/
Josh's water jobs https://www.joshswaterjobs.com
Episode 135: Ann-Carolin Flesch is a master student at the VU's "Environment and Resource Management" program. She is currently writing her masters thesis on how water futures offer a new opportunity to deal with water scarcity in California. She interviewed me (David) on water pricing, markets, stewardship, and governance.
Water stewardship strategy: https://ceowatermandate.org/university/101-the-basics/lessons/global-water-crisis-and-its-connections-to-climate/
How water futures have performed: https://theconversation.com/why-wall-street-investors-trading-california-water-futures-is-nothing-to-fear-and-unlikely-to-work-anyway-155620
Episode 134: Bruce J. Carter has a Ph.D. in public policy and he's written Water Wars: Sharing the Colorado river with Doug Cooper. Bruce received his B.B.A. from Savannah State University, his M.A. from Webster University, and his Ph.D. in Public Policy and Administration from Walden University. Recently, he received his Executive Certificate from Harvard University in Public Policy: Social, Economic, and Foreign Policies, and an Executive Certificate from Cornell University Hands-on Introduction to Mechanical Engineering Simulations. For Bruce, writing is a form of political engagement. While serving in the U.S Military, Bruce has deployed around the world. Through his deployments, he began to understand how a person could write about the world's problems compellingly and beautifully. Bruce currently lives in D.C. with his family. He acknowledges that his work is not about him. If you want a slice of life, look out the window. An author must look out that window, isolate one or two suggestive things, and embroider them together with life and fabrication to create a revelation.
Water wars website: https://www.facebook.com/Bruce-Carter-Author-105801858264880
This episode's motto: Progress through protest.
Episode 133: Jeroen van den Bergh is ICREA Research Professor at the Institute of Environmental Science & Technology of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, an honorary professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at VU University Amsterdam, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
van den Bergh, J.C.J.M. (2018). Agrowth instead of anti- and pro-growth: Less polarization, more support for sustainability/climate policies. Journal of Population and Sustainability 3(1): 53-74. https://jpopsus.org/full_articles/van-den-bergh-vol3-no1
___Blog posts from DZ___ Keynes thought we'd turn greater productivity into leisure but we turned it into consumption https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=992
Will the middle class accept a lower standard of living? https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2014/10/the-middle-class-is-dead-long-live-the-middle-class/
Episode 132: Lori works as an international human rights lawyer, which has taken her to live in countries around the world, including many years in Spain. She founded an international NGO dedicated to using strategic litigation to advance women's rights, and currently works as an independent consultant for the Council of Europe, UN and other intergovernmental bodies. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in English and a JD from Columbia Law School. She lives with her daughter, Sophia, who is currently blossoming into a rebellious adolescent, and their dog Holiday, and spends much time reading, cooking and is in the outdoors whenever she can.
Episode 131: Dr Nadina Galle (nadinagalle.com) is an award-winning ecological engineer and entrepreneur dedicated to applying emerging technologies to better monitor (and reconnect people to) urban ecosystems – something she calls the ‘Internet of Nature’ (IoN). Nadina is a TEDx & keynote speaker, and advisor to start-ups and universities. Her work has been recognized by BBC Earth, National Geographic, The Next Web, Newsweek, ELLE and the European Space Agency. In 2020, she was featured on the #ForbesUnder30 List for Science and Healthcare. From 2019 to 2020, Nadina was a Fulbright Scholar at MIT Senseable City Lab. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher at UCD Spatial Dynamics Lab, under the H2020 project, Connecting Nature.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadinagalle/
Diversitree: https://senseable.mit.edu/diversitree/ Forest City doc: https://forestcityfilm.ca/ Treemania: https://treemania.com/en/ Village homes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes
Episode 130: Charlie Whinney (IG @charliewhinneystudio) is an artist in the UK who makes environmental art projects and sculptures and specializes in bending wood (www.charliewhinney.com). In this episode, we talk about our varying views, worries and hopes for the world.
Sustainability and the Laws of Thermodynamics: https://www.terrainfirma.co.uk/sustainability-and-the-laws-of-thermodynamics-a-primer/
Episode 129: Apologies for some technical glitches; they go away after awhile. In this episode, David talks with Ajay and Sebastian about Rethinking Markets in Modern India (https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108762533), a book they co-edited with two other academics. In this conversation, David learned that the most important element for rethinking is the role of social norms, relations and embeddedness in markets that are rarely 100% transaction oriented.
Ajay Gandhi is an anthropologist and assistant professor in the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University. From 2011 to 2017, he was a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. He has conducted research primarily in urban India, and has published articles and book chapters on migration, materiality, space, the state, and transactional forms.
Sebastian Schwecke (https://mwsibo.hypotheses.org/people-new/dr-sebastian-schwecke) received his Ph.D. from Leipzig University in 2010 in political science with a study on the political economy of Hindu nationalist and Islamist movements. Before joining Max Weber Foundation (where he's now the head of the India branch office), he was an associate professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His main interests relate to the study of markets and exchange, credit/debt and speculation, extra-legality, uncertainty, trust, hope, calculability, and reputation as well as labour and skill.
Moneylending article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/26/business/india-lending-apps.html
David's review or Era of Darkness https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=516
Episode 128: Chris Perry originally qualified as an engineer before he studied economics (PhD, University of Stirling, 1976). He worked for World Bank for more than twenty years, allmost entirely on irrigation and water resources topics, spending ten of those years in India. After the World Bank, he was at the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka for five years, from whence he “retired” but he’s still busy, having been an Editor of the Journal of Agricultural Water Management for five years, and continuing to work on other research and projects.
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Chris's paper on water management https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02508060.2013.754618
David's All in Auctions paper https://www.kysq.org/pubs/AiA_Final.pdf
Episode 127: Sunčica Vujić is an Associate Professor at the University of Antwerp, an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Bath, and a Research Fellow at the IZA – Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn. Her areas of expertise are applied econometrics and labour economics, focussing on research questions in economics of education, crime, gender, health, fertility, migration, Brexit, labour market discrimination and pro-social behaviour. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the VU Amsterdam.
__Links__ Manahmanah! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ&t=6s
The real MA-NA-MA degree in Belgium https://www.onderwijskiezer.be/v2/hoger/hoger_manamas.php|
Brexit and hate crime paper: http://ftp.iza.org/dp13902.pdf
Featured on the Economics Observatory: https://www.economicsobservatory.com/did-the-vote-for-brexit-lead-to-a-rise-in-hate-crime
"Ciaokes" (local slang): http://www.antwerps.be/woord/112
Episode 126: Aaron Salzberg is the Director of the Water Institute at UNC (https://waterinstitute.unc.edu). The goal of the Water Institute is to contribute to a more water secure world through research, policy, and practice. Prior to joining UNC, Aaron served as the Department of State’s first Special Coordinator for Water where he managed the development and implementation of U.S. foreign policy on drinking water and sanitation, water resources management, and transboundary water issues. In this role, he led the development of the first U.S. government Global Water Strategy and served as the Department’s lead representative on international water issues. He currently advises on issues related to water security, access to drinking water and sanitation, and conflicts related to shared waters. Aaron has a Ph.D. in Genetic Toxicology and a MS in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a MS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland.
Links to a few topics mentioned:
Surface Water and Ocean Topography https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/SWOT
Water data hub https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/03/the-water-data-hub-is-live/
Flood insurance fails https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/09/so-what-now-america/
"Two-thirds of the longest rivers no longer flow freely" (1) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/worlds-free-flowing-rivers-mapped-hydropower (2) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/graphics/see-which-of-the-worlds-10-longest-rivers-still-run-free
Episode 125: Angy Odysseos (https://www.linkedin.com/in/angy-odysseos/) graduated from LUC in 2018, majoring in World Politics. Since then she worked in communications and digital media at Marcus Evans, the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in Italy, and is currently working in Europe Corporate Communications at Boeing.
Note to listeners: Due to past mis-numbering, “episode number” was not the same as the "number of episodes". Thus, I have dropped numbers 119-124 and this episode (#125) follows episode #118 with Guillermo Donoso. Sorry for the confusion!
Episode 118: Guillermo Donoso works at the Water Law and Economics Center and Agricultural Economics Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate students on Water Economics and Management and Natural Resource Economics. He specialises on water allocation, collective water management, urban water economics and policy, water use efficiencies. Prof Donoso also is a board member of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA) and a member of Stockholm’s World Water Week’s Scientific Programme Committee. He was Dean of the College of Agriculture and Forestry of the Catholic University of Chile between 1998 and 2007.
Guillermo's research page: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9958-4787
Urban water pricing in Chile: cost recovery, affordability, and water conservation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/310839417_Urban_water_pricing_in_Chile_cost_recovery_affordability_and_water_conservation_Urban_water_pricing_in_Chile
Chilean water markets as a water allocation mechanism https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282158199_Chilean_Water_Rights_Markets_as_a_Water_Allocation_Mechanism
Análisis Crítico de las Políticas Aplicadas en Latinoamérica en el Sector Agua y Saneamiento https://kysq.org/docs/Ana%CC%81lisis_cri%CC%81tico.pdf
Episode 117: Daniela Vicherat-Mattar (PhD European University Institute) convenes the Culture, History and Society major. Prior to joining LUC she was Marie-Curie Fellow at the School of History in Edinburgh University. Her research focuses on cities, citizenship and, more recently, care. She’s interested in exploring how dominant ideas about belonging translate in urban forms (like walls, public squares, markets, museums and third spaces) and through urban aesthetics (graffiti and street art). Studying the politics of belonging has led her to an interest in borders, particularly in relation to counter-hegemonic ideas and practices of citizenship and care. Her portfolio at LUC is to expand the inter- and cross- disciplinary aspects of the programme. In relation to this, she is drawn to thinking about the limits of disciplinary forms of knowledge and teaching in the search for a more socially and environmentally just university.
Recently she has been awarded a Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) grant for an inter-faculty project titled The many faces of food markets during COVID-19: Stories of solidarity and change through and with food.
https://lucthehague.academia.edu/dvicherat
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Valeria Mazzucato The Value of Everything https://marianamazzucato.com/books/the-value-of-everything
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Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm
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David Graeber On Bullshit Jobs https://www.strike.coop/bullshit-jobs/
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Kae Tempest On Connection https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/25/on-connection-by-kae-tempest-review-persuasive-and-profound
David's post: Keynes on productivity and leisure https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=992
Episode 116: Maranie Staab is an independent photographer and journalist.
Motto: Be good to each other.
https://www.maranierae.com https://www.instagram.com/maranierae https://twitter.com/maranierae https://www.patreon.com/maranierae
Maranie's last appearance on JT: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/33-maranie-staab-empowers-the-marginalized
Episode 115: Chris Jeffords is an Associate Professor of Economics at IUP in Indiana, PA (US). His research focuses on the intersection of environmental and natural resource economics, environmental rights (both of humans and of nature), and (constitutional) law and economics. His solo and co-authored interdisciplinary research has appeared in multiple outlets including Kyklos, Empirical Economics, Global Environmental Politics, Journal of Environment and Development, Review of Social Economy, and Journal of Human Rights and the Environment.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-jeffords-8a1a78132/ https://chrisjeffords.weebly.com/
Procedural Environmental Rights: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/GLEP_a_00445
Substantive Environmental Rights and Environmental Outcomes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/kykl.12112
Working Paper on Substantive Environmental Rights and Sustainable Development Outcomes https://chrisjeffords.weebly.com/job-market-paper.html
"Water rights and human rights: The poor will not need our charity if we need their water" http://ssrn.com/abstract=1549570
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/12/gasland-the-review/
Whanganui river https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whanganui_River
Episode 114: Paul Behrens (www.linkedin.com/in/paul-behrens-6b586427/) is an author and academic interested in environmental change at Leiden University College. In September 2020, he published The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science (https://www.theindigopress.com/the-best-of-times), a popular science book that describes humanity’s possible futures in paired chapters of pessimism and hope.
Paul's last JT appearance: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/102-paul-behrens-on-our-struggles-to-live-the-best-of-times
David's book reviews: https://www.kysq.org/reviews.html
Paul's clarification of what he was trying to say about Adam Smith:
This post (https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/self-interest-rightly-understood) says “far from providing rationale for selfish material pursuits, Smith’s self-interest, properly understood, encourages a kind of virtue that protects both individuals and their communities.”
Paul adds: What I was saying was yes, it is in their own interests, but that their interests covers individuals and communities.
Episode 113: Steven Asei-Dantoni a.k.a Great Teacher Steve is a researcher and advisor on Inclusive Education and Social Innovation. His work focuses on improving educational experiences with transformative learning. Steven has worked with companies, governments and schools in Denmark, France, Nicaragua, Rwanda, South Africa and the Netherlands. Steven holds a Master of Arts in Geopolitics and International Relations, and a Bachelor of Business Management and Finance. Steven is a research assistant at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam and a guest lecturer at Leiden University. He is the host of the Innovating Education Podcast which focuses on changemakers in education.
Podcast : https://www.greatteachersteve.com/podcast Instagram : @innovatingeducation Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/innovatingeducation Facebook Page : @greatteachersteve Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/c/GreatTeacherSteve/ Twitter : @greattsteve
https://www.ted.com/talks/sir_ken_robinson_do_schools_kill_creativity
Steve's prior appearances: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/52-steven-asei-dantoni-brings-joy-to-teaching https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/78-steve-titus-and-david-talk-about-teaching-online
Episode 112: Lucas van Oppen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-van-oppen-4a158b100/) graduated from LUC in 2015, majoring in Human Interaction (now called Human Diversity: Culture, History & Society). Since then he completed an MA in History: Political Culture & National Identity (PCNI) at Leiden University. Now he works at RPS as a historian for the UXO-team.
Episode 111: In this episode, Brandon and David talk a lot (you need to listen, I can't summarise it ;)
Brandon's last appearance on JiveTalk: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/67-brandon-zicha-says-liberal-arts-can-save-us
How the West became WEIRD https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/09/joseph-henrich-explores-weird-societies/
How the 'Western mind' was shaped by the Medieval Church https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201231-how-the-way-you-think-was-shaped-centuries-ago
‘Reach Out to Trump Supporters,’ They Said. I Tried. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/19/opinion/trump-supporters.html
The Reply: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/opinion/letters/donald-trump-supporters.html
Episode 110: Zach (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachariasmalik/) works as a Researcher across the Sustainable Finance programme at E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism, https://www.e3g.org), focusing on how International Financial Institutions, in particular Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), can accelerate the transition towards a climate-safe world. As part of this, Zach supports aligning MDBs with the Paris Agreement.
Prior to joining E3G, Zach worked as a Consultant at the World Bank, focusing on urban development projects across the East Asia and Pacific region. Zach has also been a Researcher at the Japan-based research institute IGES (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies), and a Consultant at Climate-KIC, EU's largest public private partnership addressing climate change.
Outside of his role at E3G, Zach freelances at Vivid Economics, a strategic economics consultancy, and Climate Bonds Initiative an international organisation working solely to mobilise the largest capital market of all, the $100 trillion bond market, for climate change solutions. Recently, Zach was contracted by UN Environment and UNDP.
Zach holds a BSc in Policy Science (now GED) and minor in Sustainability (now EES) from LUC (class of 2016 1/2) and a MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability from Cranfield University. He has lived in several countries including Egypt, Australia, Switzerland, France, and South Korea. Zach is currently based in London.
Links:
Zach's first JT appearance: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/08-zach-malik-had-five-jobs
Development Projects Observed https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/07/review-development-projects-observed/
Podast on financing development in Africa https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2020-12-09/why-africa-borrowed-billions-of-dollars-from-china-podcast
Episode 109: This episode follows a different format, with Ishak Özdemir (LUC student) and Ankita Singhvi (a researcher at CML) interviewing me on decolonisation and the impacts of COVID 19 on globalisation, respectively. Each interview is about 30 minutes ;)
Episode 108: After graduating with a major in Policy Science in 2016, Felipe stayed at LUC to work as a student assistant in the Recruitment and Communication office. Continuing his interdisciplinary undergraduate, he holds two master degrees focusing on the European Union – one in International Relations from Universiteit Leiden and a second in Economics from the College of Europe in Bruges. After a short time working on German and European Climate politics at the Dutch embassy in Berlin, Felipe now works as a power market expert at Aurora Energy Research in Berlin, focusing on the build-out of renewables in the Dutch and Belgian power sectors.
Motto: "As long as you use your experience, it can’t be a failure"
Episode 107: Jeffry “J.J.” Clausen Jr. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjclausen/) has worked in commercial real estate, venture capital and investment banking and is focused on synthesizing his disparate experience, personal life journey and acquired knowledge to apply the venturesome spirit of the private sector into the transitioning state of the public sector.
Choosing academia at a later stage in life to complete his personal cycles of self-validation, JJ is currently a first-generation student conducting research with the economics departments at University of South Florida and New College on commercial real estate valuation methods, repo rates, and financial instrument architecture.
To quote the C.P. Cavafy’s poem, JJ is on his own “road to Ithaca” (quite literally to Cornell) where it is full of triumph, tragedy, adventure, and discovery.
Ithaka, by C. P. Cavafy https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51296/ithaka-56d22eef917ec
"The real estate market index.” https://www.kysq.org/pubs/REMI_Final.pdf
Silicon Valley etiquette https://medium.com/@romainserman/silicon-valley-etiquette-6934cf6f8f73
Episode 106: After finishing at LUC (majoring in GED)in 2018. Simon Toussaint (twitter @sjtoussaint) enrolled in the Research Master of the Utrecht University School of Economics. Currently, he is a PhD candidate there, researching the dynamics of wealth inequality.
Motto: "Don't stress. Take a walk."
The political economy of property taxes https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/07/the-political-economy-of-property-taxes/
Episode 105: Art Carden (http://artcarden.com) is a professor of economics at Samford University’s Brock School of Business, a fellow at four different institutes and co-editor of the Southern Economic Journal. Art's research focuses on mass-market retailers, economic history, and the history of economic ideas. He also writes for non-academic audiences in publications such as Forbes. We discussed Art's first book, Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich: How the Bourgeois Deal Enriched the World, which he coauthored with Deirdre McCloskey.
Motto: "Don't add help, subtract barriers!"
__Links__
Leave Me Alone and I’ll Make You Rich https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo61545999.html
Era of Darkness https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=516
A history of the institutional racism against Blacks in the US http://www.sceneonradio.org/tag/season-4/
Looking back at 50 years of Friedman's ideas on corporate governance https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/11/business/dealbook/milton-friedman-doctrine-social-responsibility-of-business.html
Episode 104: Joes de Natris (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joes-de-natris/) graduated from LUC, majoring in GED, in 2014. He did a Research Masters at the University of Amsterdam in social sciences, and is now doing a PhD in Economics at the University of Groningen working on the political economy of Dutch local governments and working as a researcher at the Centre for research on local government economics (COELO).
Joes's blog: https://policonomy.wordpress.com/
Covid: https://thecoronakremlinologists.wordpress.com https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/schools-arent-superspreaders/616669/ https://sketchplanations.com/the-swiss-cheese-model
Hayek and Schumacher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom https://www.econlib.org/what-would-hayek-do-knowledge-and-vaccines/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful
Episode 103: Willem Zents (https://www.linkedin.com/in/willemzents and https://wbhz.github.io) is an MSc Candidate in Social Data Science at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He's interested in applying data science techniques to better understand how humans behave in an increasingly complex, digital world. In particular, his work focuses how technology shapes economic life. Willem graduated from LUC's GED major in 2019.
Weapons of Math Destruction (DZ's review): http://www.kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/02/weapons-of-math-destruction-the-review
The A-Z of AI developed by my department and Google: https://atozofai.withgoogle.com/intl/en-US/
On the need for social data science: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/why-social-data-science-matters-to-societal-resilience/
On Google Flu Trends: https://www.wired.com/2015/10/can-learn-epic-failure-google-flu-trends/
Classic social data science for economic development example: http://sustain.stanford.edu/predicting-poverty
Cool talk on countering COVID misinformation on closed platforms like Whatsapp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlWM5oksrSE
On why social science matters more than ever in the age of big data: https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1512&context=asc_papers
Sociological perspective on big data: https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780198843498.001.0001/oso-9780198843498-chapter-11
Episode 102: Paul Behrens (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-behrens-6b586427/) is an author and academic in environmental change at Leiden University. His popular science book The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science describes humanity’s possible futures in paired chapters of pessimism and hope is available September 2020. He wrote Food and Sustainability a transdisciplinary textbook with colleagues, out January 2020 with Oxford University Press. His research on food, energy and climate change has appeared in leading scientific journals and in 2018 he was awarded Leiden University’s Discoverer of the Year. His work on science communication has appeared in The New York Times, Scientific American, and the BBC.
Paul's book: https://www.theindigopress.com/the-best-of-times
UK Climate (Citizen) Assembly https://www.climateassembly.uk
Paul's past appearance (JT 72): https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/72-paul-behrens-brings-hope-to-our-sustainability-challenges
Episode 101: Kristin Makszin (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/kristin-makszin#tab-2) is an Assistant Professor of Political Economy. She completed her PhD in Political Science at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She researches political economy and public policy in Europe, with a focus on social and monetary policy and the complex interaction of public and private, international and domestic, political and bureaucratic actors and their influence on policy outcomes.
Links:
Some analysis of the Canadian child allowance: https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-canadas-child-benefit
A summary of the academic debates over the paradox of redistribution: https://inequalitiesblog.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/is-the-paradox-of-redistribution-dead/
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2017/05/31/rethinking-the-universalism-versus-targeting-debate/
The original Welfare Queen https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-true-story-behind-the-welfare-queen-stereotype
https://www.sceneonradio.org/episode-33-made-in-america-seeing-white-part-3/ "In the colony of Virginia, in 1640, an African indentured servant by the name of John Punch runs away from his servitude. John has figured out that this wasn’t what he imagined it to be. Interestingly, John doesn’t run away alone. He runs away with a Dutchman and a Scotsman. They are all indentured servants; they are all living in identical circumstance."
Episode 99: David Ehrhardt (http://www.davidehrhardt.com)is an Associate Professor in International Development at Leiden University College (LUC). He studies the role of informal authorities and other brokers in governance and development, particularly in Africa, and experiments with new ways to teach transferable skills to students and practitioners. He teaches international development and African studies.
Episode 98: Adam Buben (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/adam-buben#tab-1) is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Leiden University. His research explores the topic of death in the history of philosophy, the varied impact of technological developments on the philosophy of death, and the desirability of immortality. Before coming to the Netherlands, Adam spent time studying and teaching in Denmark, Guam, Japan, and the US.
__Links__ Find happiness by contemplating your mortality: https://www.wecroak.com/
What is philosophy? https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2020/10/10/philosophy/
A Future Without Goodbyes? Hanging Out with the Virtual Dead. https://livewire.thewire.in/personal/a-future-without-goodbyes-hanging-out-with-the-virtual-dead/
VPRO documentary “The Future is Fantastic,” Episode 6: Death (21 Nov 2019) https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/de-toekomst-is-fantastisch/kijk/afleveringen/aflevering-6.html#
Episode 97: Joris Larik (twitter.com/JorisLarik) is Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law. He is an expert in EU external relations, comparative foreign relations law, global governance, and the external ramifications of Brexit. His work has been acknowledged with several awards, and he's often busy talking with policy makers as well as academic crowds.
Episode 77: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/77-joris-larik-explains-brexit-chaos
Declaration on the commemoration of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the United Nations https://undocs.org/A/75/L.1
UNA-UK statement on the finalisation of the UN75 Declaration https://www.una.org.uk/news/una-uk-statement-finalisation-un75-declaration
What Impact Do U.S. Contributions Have on UN Agencies and Programs? https://tinyurl.com/y6bajkym
UN 2.0: Ten Innovations for Global Governance https://tinyurl.com/yyd95szu
Episode 96: In this episode, Niall Farrell, an Irish academic, interviewed me for his podcast, At the Margin (https://www.irisheconpod.com), where this episode will also appear. We discuss many important questions on how we (mis)manage water, pricing water (or carbon) for scarcity without harming the poor, and so on.
The struggle for residential water metering in England and Wales https://www.kysq.org/pubs/Art9-1-6.pdf
My book (free to D/L) Living with Water Scarcity https://www.kysq.org/lwws/
Citizen regulators https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2014/07/do-you-trust-your-neighbors/
Episode 95: Lisa Andrews (https://www.kwrwater.nl/en/experts-expertises/experts/lisa-andrews-2/) works as a researcher in the Innovation and Valorisation team at KWR (Watercycle Research Institute) and is also the Engagement Manager for Watershare. Her work is divided between research and the practical application of engagement, knowledge transfer, learning theories, science communication, and collaboration across EU and international projects. Aside from her work at KWR, Lisa works on international consulting projects with The Nature Conservancy, IWA, and the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities. She is also currently serving on the SWAN Forum Rising Smart Water Professionals (RiSWP) 2020 Leadership Team.
Motto: "Science only helps if people can understand it."
KWR -- Sewage surveillance projects https://www.kwrwater.nl/en/actueel/covid-19-publicaties/
Podcast with colleague Gertjan Medema https://soundcloud.com/user-647738337/how-is-the-recent-corona-research-preparing-us-for-current-and-future-pandemics%C2%A0
Report on Science and Crisis Communication https://www.kwrwater.nl/en/actueel/how-to-effectively-communicate-science-during-a-public-health-crisis-covid19/
Sewers4covid website: https://devpost.com/software/sewers4covid
Anglian water explains COVID to customers: https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/help-and-advice/coronavirus/
Shop window raising awareness on saving water and money https://www.anglianwater.co.uk/news/pop-to-the-smarter-drop-shop--its-top/
My paper on Dutch drinking water companies: https://www.kysq.org/pubs/NL-DWCs.pdf
City water project: https://kysq.org/cwp/
Blog post, testing at the tap: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2013/04/delivering-water-quality-to-the-tap/
Episode 94: Michael Strong (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelstrong1/) is one of the most experienced innovative school program designers in the U.S. His projects include The Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI), the high school model for the largest Montessori secondary school program in the U.S. He also founded Moreno Valley High School, a Paideia charter high school in Angel Fire, New Mexico, ranked the 36th best public high school in the U.S. by Newsweek. He is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and lead author of Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World’s Problems. He also a co-founder of Peace through Commerce, Conscious Capitalism, and Radical Social Entrepreneurs. Michael writes at Medium and is active on Facebook, where he is the only “Michael Strong” married to the powerful and beautiful Senegalese entrepreneur Magatte Wade.
Motto: "Keep your identity thin"
Radical social entrepreneurs https://www.radicalsocialentreps.org
David's review of The Secret of Our Success https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=723
Episode 93: David talked about climate chaos, mitigation vs adaptation, and the Energy Transition and/or Green New Deal as mitigation efforts.
Motto: "Higher prices [on GHGs] will encourage a range of responses that maximize experimentation and efficiency."
What would a carbon tax really cost? https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/05/so-what-would-a-carbon-tax-really-cost/
The Green New Deal (a small mention of carbon taxes) https://www.gp.org/green_new_deal
Three Mile Island and China Syndrome https://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/three-mile-island-and-the-china-syndrome.html
Death rates from coal vs nuclear (from NASA!!) https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-harmful-than-nuclear-power/
Episode 92: Dr Paul Paterson (https://www.ipart.nsw.gov.au/Home/About-IPART/The-Tribunal-Executive-team) is the chair of the Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal or IPART, based in Sydney Australia. IPART is the regulator for water, public transport and local government in New South Wales as well as the licence administrator for water, electricity and gas.
Dr Paterson is an industry economist with 40 years of experience as a private sector executive, academic, consultant, regulator and senior public servant. Dr Paterson has worked for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris as well as holding an impressive range of senior positions in Australia.
Episode motto: "Price water to protect supply not encourage use."
Episode 91: My friend Sue interviewed me about my perspective as a 51-year old. Our conversation covers career, siblings, death, travel, kids & marriage, and so on. Enjoy :)
Motto: "Today you should solve more problems then you cause."
Episode 90: Mike Young holds a Research Chair in Water and Environmental Policy at the University of Adelaide, was the Founding Executive Director of its Environment Institute, is a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Mike is best known for his contribution to the development of natural resource and environmental policies, with a specialization in water policy reform. Mike published hundreds of publications over decades, so check out his home page (https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/mike.young#) for more.
Motto: "We're totally unprepared for climate change."
Episode 89: Over the last ten years, Ron Lameij (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-lameij-23a6b1/) has helped organisations and people become more entrepreneurial and innovative and helping them become successful with their innovations.
Ron has worked with large multinational companies, with small and medium businesses and with many start-ups and incubators. He provides training, workshops, coaching that support his customers in creating an innovation strategy, an innovation process, a fitting innovation portfolio and he helps them create and develop innovative ideas.
For students of Leiden University and Leiden University College (LUC) he created courses that take the students through many steps of creating an enterprise and building a business model. Throughout the course the students become acquainted with the start-up way of working.
Due to Covid-19, Ron is changing his way of working and the company he works for and has recently established a new company called ‘Impuls voor Innovatie’ (https://impulsvoorinnovatie.com).
Episode 88: Mike and David revisit their predictions from 2 months ago (Episode 83). In Oct, we will discuss where stimulus V went, election dynamics, and policy (top down) & reactions (bottom up) to slow the virus.
Blog post on why tech firms are worth so much (monopoly power): https://crookedtimber.org/2020/08/11/intangibles-monopoly/
Motto: "Reality is now buried under hope; when it’s uncovered, people are going to panic.."
Personal savings (BEA data. Table 2.6, line 35) 2019 (average): 7.5% Jan 2020: 7.6% Feb 2020: 8.3% Mar 2020: 12.8% Apr 2020: 33.5% (!!!) May 2020: 24.2% Jun 2020: 19.0%
David's data sources: Unemployment (backward looking): www.bls.gov Market indices (forward looking): www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx Consumer sentiment (forward looking): fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UMCSENT/
Mike's preferred indicators, with weights from 1 (most) to 5 (least) important. Data compare 2 Jun >>> 4 Aug
Dow: 25,740 >>> 26,754 S&P 500: 3,080 >>> 3,295 NASDAQ: 9,600 >>> 10,875 Gold: $1,730/oz >>> $2,016 Oil: $36.80/bbl >>> $41.60 USD/€: $1.11/€ >>> $1.17/€
10yr UST: 0.68% >>> 0.52% 30yr UST: 1.48% >>> 1.19% 10yr AAA GO: 0.84% >>> ?? 30yr AAA GO: 1.65% >>> ??
Wholesale Inventories (MoM): 0.4% >>> ?? [1] Retail Inventories (MoM): -3.6% >>> ?? [1] Retail Sales Ex Auto and Gas (YoY): -16.2% >>> ?? [3]
Personal Income (YoY): 10.5% >>> ?? [3] Personal Spending (YoY): -13.6% >>> ?? [3] Real Personal Spending (YoY): -12.9% >>> ?? [3] Consumer Sentiment (Apr 2020): 71.8 >>> 78.1 [3]
Housing Starts (MoM): -30.2% >>> ?? [3] Building Permits (MoM): -20.8% >>> ?? [3]
ADP Employment Change (MoM): -2.8MM >>> +2.4MM (Jun) [3] Initial Jobless Claims (WoW): 2,1MM >>> 1.43MM [5] Continuing Claims: 21.1MM >>> 17.0MM(18 Jul) [5]
Episode 87: Alexandria Sisson is a Filipina-American elementary educator in Honolulu, Hawaii. She graduated from Leiden University College in 2020 with a BSc in Governance, Economics, and Development. She applied her academic background in development to specialize in education infrastructure and accessibility.
Motto: "Our aspirations rise with our role models."
Alexa's proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19iDXY8Wwdv21PggNFvQ7tPgf5UDWNli7N-Rm0oKxtCY/edit
Complete write-up: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11WMG0dZIln2tam_ieVDR4t28hViQjj45w7sEW8bVD2w/edit
Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13cMzIDBY91MsjFtKvpcMqNi3uenUnTBe3EkzrCPe46o/edit#gid=535056576
Schelling's model of segregation: http://nifty.stanford.edu/2014/mccown-schelling-model-segregation/
Becker on discrimination: https://review.chicagobooth.edu/magazine/winter-2014/how-gary-becker-saw-the-scourge-of-discrimination
Episode 86: Francisco Jose Lopez, a student from Leiden University, interviewed me for his podcast.
Here's the original episode: https://globalperspectives.buzzsprout.com/1049257/4238333-david-water-and-academia
Francisco's introduction: "I have invited dr. David Zetland, a university lecturer at Leiden University College, and author of several books related to water, sustainability, and political economy. During the podcast, we discuss a bit about his academic career, about water management, and about how to make a change when it comes to sustainability."
Episode 85: Giulio Giandoso and I catch up after our talk 3 months ago (https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/73-giulio-giandoso-is-living-through-italys-coronacrisis). We discuss the end of lockdown, the Italian economy, debt spending, inflation, gold and market bubbles.
Motto: "Trust gold, not politicians"
Italian mayors yell at people to stay home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxtGJsnLgSc
Videos on inflation, money printing and asset prices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeY2Bzhg8s4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEh5izdlpLc
[I, David, do NOT endorse investing with anyone or in any market. Do your homework.]
Episode 83: Mike and David revisit their predictions from 6 weeks ago (https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/75-mike-and-david-discuss-markets-and-coronavirus).
Motto: "Main street ain't wall street."
David's data sources: Unemployment (backward looking): https://www.bls.gov Market indices (forward looking): https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/index/spx Consumer sentiment (forward looking): https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UMCSENT/
Mike's preferred indicators as of 2 June (our call), with weights from 1 (most) to 5 (least) important:
Dow: 25,740 S&P 500: 3,080 NASDAQ: 9,600 Gold: $1,730/oz Oil: $36.80/bbl
10yr UST: 0.68% 30yr UST: 1.48% 10yr AAA GO: 0.84% 30yr AAA GO: 1.65%
Wholesale Inventories MoM: 0.4% [weight 1] Retail Inventories MoM: -3.6% [weight 1] Retail Sales Ex Auto and Gas (YoY) -16.2% [weight 3]
Personal Income (YoY): 10.5% [weight 3] Personal Spending (YoY) : -13.6% [weight 3] Real Personal Spending (YoY) : -12.9% [weight 3] Consumer Sentiment (Apr 2020): 71.8 [weight 3]
Housing Starts (MoM): -30.2% [weight 3] Building Permits (MoM): -20.8% [weight 3]
ADP Employment Change (MoM): -2.76 million [weight 3] Initial Jobless Claims (WoW): 2,12 million [weight 5] Continuing Claims: 21.1 million [weight 5]
Episode 82: Richard Sexton (https://are.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/richard-sexton/) is a distinguished professor (and two-time chair) in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis. Sexton was raised on a small dairy farm in East Central Minnesota. He joined the Davis faculty in 1984 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. Sexton’s initial research focus was on the economics of agricultural cooperatives (to which he continues to contribute), but quickly broadened to the industrial organization of agricultural markets—the field that focuses upon the structure of markets, product differentiation, competition, and coordination within the supply chain. Professor Sexton is widely regarded as the world’s leading scholar in this field. He is also an award-winning teacher and advisor. Sexton’s Ph.D. students occupy positions of prominence throughout academia and government. His outreach and professional service have also been exemplary. He has worked directly with many California agricultural industries to address critical economic issues. Sexton is also only the second Davis faculty member to be elected by his peers as president of the AAEA.
Motto: "You can't get an egg back into its shell very easily."
Rich's paper on corona and food supply: https://giannini.ucop.edu/publications/are-update/issues/2020/23/4/the-coronavirus-and-the-food-supply-chain/
Dumping flowers in NL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZesOc_-JKR4
Episode 81: Dieneke de Weerd (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dienekedeweerd/) is currently an (online) intern at Arcadis. The internship is her final step to finishing up her Msc International Land and Watermanagement, with the specialization Adaptive Water Management at Wageningen University. She is passionate about urban resilience, climate adaptation and water governance, particularly about enhancing living conditions in cities and inspiring change and connection among and within organizations.
A year ago she was selected as Waterambassador Top Sector Water & Maritime to share her enthusiasm about the water sector and join an active network of like minded people. She is currently deciding what she wants to do to start her professional career in the water sector.
Dieneke graduated from LUC's Governance Economics and Development major in 2018.
Motto: "Water goes deeper and deeper."
Here's the network for water talent: https://destroomversnellers.nl/
You can apply to be a water ambassador until 15 June: https://destroomversnellers.nl/waterambassadeur/
Here are some blog posts (in Dutch) about Dieneke's experiences:
https://m.waterwereldwerk.nl/op-pad-met-nederlandse-waterschappers-van-het-inspiragua-programma-in-colombia-6b8b8795d198
https://m.waterwereldwerk.nl/consultancy-training-in-valencia-spanje-57df77a56492
Episode 84: Antoine Champetier (see Episode 64 -- link below -- for bio) and I talk about crop-insurance shenanigans in the US, JM Keynes's _Economic Consequences of the Peace_ (1919), and various complications regarding information.
Motto: "It ain't what you know that gets ya, but what you don't."
Episode 64 ("Antoine Champetier studies bees' economies") https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/64-antoine-champetier-studies-bees-economies
Keynes (1919) https://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Keynes/kynsCP.html
David on Keynes's 1930 essay on productivity: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=992
David's posts on Marshall's Principles of Economics (1920): https://one-handed-economist.com/?cat=15
Episode 80: Anniek Barnhoorn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/anniekbarnhoorn/) is a Research Assistant with the Climate Change and Risk Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) where she is supporting the institute's work on climate security for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In January 2020 she obtained a master degree in International Development Studies from Wageningen University and Research. During her master she was also active as a board member for The West Wing, the youth think tank for and by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands. Prior to this, she pursued a bachelor degree in Governance Economics and Development at Leiden University College which she completed in 2017.
Motto: "Take time for yourself."
Blog post on Water security in the Horn of Africa: https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2020/04/regional-approach-water-security-governance-horn-africa/
Episode 79: Brian Richter has been a global leader in water science and conservation for more than 30 years. He is the president of Sustainable Waters (https://www.sustainablewaters.org), a global water education organization, where he promotes sustainable water use and management with governments, corporations, universities, and local communities. He previously served as Director of the Global Water Program of The Nature Conservancy, an international conservation organization. Brian has consulted on more than 170 water projects worldwide. He serves as a water advisor to some of the world’s largest corporations, investment banks, and the United Nations, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on multiple occasions. He also teaches a course on Water Sustainability at the University of Virginia.
Motto: "Everyone wins from managing scarcity."
Day Zero for the Colorado River https://www.sustainablewaters.org/day-zero-for-the-colorado-river/
Jive Talking episode on private water https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/1-water-privatization
_Rights to gross vs net diversions_ David's view: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/02/water-rights-diversion-or-consumption/
Mike Young replies: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/03/mike-young-on-water-rights/
Chris Perry adds more: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/05/chris-perry-on-water-rights/
Episode 78: In this episode, David discusses teaching online (designing courses, teaching remotely, assessing performance) with Steve and Titus.
[Sorry if I -- David -- was a little distracted. There were some weird interruptions during this conversation.]
Motto: "It's possible to teach in many conditions"
Steven Asei-Dantoni specialises in (social) innovation research and practice. He has managed projects in the international development field collaborating with organisations such as UNICEF. Some of his clients include: EDF, Caisse d’Epargne and Adecco. Steven has also guest lectured on the subject in France, South Africa and Denmark. As a keynote speaker, Steven is often invited to share his experiences and vision.In 2016, he was selected to speak at TEDx Bordeaux to provide insight as to how redesigning the classroom experience can assist in solving social problems such as youth violence. Steven worked with municipalities where he applied design thinking and innovation to solve complex problems in the school ecosystem. He co-designed solutions for teachers to be more creative and innovative. Currently he is a lecturer in business management at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and guest lecture at PLNT Leiden and Leiden University College. Steven holds a Master of Arts in Geopolitics and International Relations, and a Bachelor (Hons) of Business Management and Finance.
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/52-steven-asei-dantoni-brings-joy-to-teaching
Titus van der Spek (PhD) specialises in (social) entrepreneurship research and practice. In 2014, he co-authored his first book ‘Leadership in Social Enterprise’. He has worked in the field of entrepreneurship and development consulting for 7 years. Some of my clients include: Amnesty International, Local Giving, The University of Essex, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), Action Aid NL, ICS, SOS Children’s Villages, Oxfam Novib and Context, International Cooperation (CIC). As a lecturer Titus has been active for 5 years. Currently he is a lecturer in business management at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and guest lecture at PLNT Leiden, Leiden University and Leiden University College. In 2018 he completed his PhD from the University of Essex “Exploring the crux of social entrepreneurship: The pursuit of blended value creation”. Email Titus: t.c.vanderspek@hhs.nl
https://www.linkedin.com/in/titusvanderspek/ Link to the honours course on covid-19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep-jd2eaEX8
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/59-titus-van-der-spek-brings-social-to-entrepreneurs
Episode 77: Joris Larik (https://twitter.com/JorisLarik)is an Assistant Professor of Comparative, EU and International Law. He is an expert in EU external relations, comparative foreign relations law, global governance, and the external ramifications of Brexit.
Motto: "It's not just quick and dirty"
Joris's staff profile: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/joris-larik#tab-1
Brexit, the Withdrawal Agreement, and Global Treaty (Re-)Negotiations https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-journal-of-international-law/article/brexit-the-withdrawal-agreement-and-global-treaty-renegotiations/CDCE0B8A50295EFC16F1AADA8FED3B88
EU external relations law and Brexit: ‘When Pluto was a planet’ https://www.scienceopen.com/document/read?vid=a7038c59-92cb-4b28-90fa-bac917fed5ae
Episode 76: Jamie Workman is 50 years old, and he's got some wisdom to share. In this episode, David and James G. (Jamie) Workman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/workman1968/) discuss the realities of being fifty in a complicated world. Jamie is a pioneering writer, speaker, teacher & creator of natural resource conservation markets.
This episode's motto: "Success is relative to your expectations."
Episode 75: Mike lives in the US. He and David talk about the impacts of Coronavirus on markets, the economy, and society.
Sorry about the keyboard noises and occasional loss of volume during this chat!
Episode motto: "What's the price of a different future?"
Episode 74: Jennifer Pfister of CoCast (https://www.instagram.com/co.cast/) interviewed me on Coronavirus and related topics. Subscribe to CoCast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4IoKvxVsaqFaXPzYG1HE0L
This episode's motto: "This crisis gives us an extremely valuable example of what it means to have all of our lives disrupted and how our civilization can cope with disruption."
Episode 73: Alexander Danilenko developed and managed the International Benchmarking Network of Water and Sanitation Utilities of the World Bank (IBNET) from 1998 to 2018. IBNET (https://www.ib-net.org) is the largest publicly available database of water utilities' performance. Alexander is directly involved in water reform agenda in many countries, where IBNET performance assessment tools are being used for the sector development. He works with water sector development of Uganda now. Alexander holds PhD in Environmental (Physical) Chemistry from Kazakh National Academy of Sciences and MSc in Resource Economics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Episode motto: "The public provision of data creates more value than it costs."
Links: IBNET database: https://database.ib-net.org/DefaultNew.aspx
Tariffs' database: https://tariffs.ib-net.org/
[David] How to price water for conservation and fiscal stability https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2015/04/how-to-price-water-for-conservation-in-california/
Episode 73: Giulio Giandoso (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuliogiandoso/), 36 and currently living in Padua, is a real estate agent focussing on commercial letting in the Veneto Market. He has a background in teaching and training (HR) in both the corporate and public sectors. He speaks 7 European languages and has a PhD in linguistics. In his free time he trains in the martial arts. Giulio supports the EU, but keeps his eyes wide open.
This episode's motto: "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face"
Giulio recommends this article (use Google translate) on the lockdown of 47 million Italians: https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/un-mese-lockdown-47-miliardi-mese-ecco-com-e-cambiata-vita-italiani-AD57CFJ
Episode 72: Paul Behrens (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/paul-behrens#tab-1) is an Assistant Professor in Energy and Environmental Change. Paul’s research focuses on the energy-climate nexus using tools such as environmentally-extended, input-output analysis, as enabling the flourishing of human societies within environmental constraints such as climate change is a critical global challenge. Paul's recent projects include estimating the impact of energy policy on environmental, social, and economic systems -- and writing a book!
Episode motto: "We can can handle challenges if we work together."
You can pre-order Paul's book here: https://www.theindigopress.com/the-best-of-times https://www.amazon.co.uk/Best-Times-Worst/dp/1911648098 https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-best-of-times-the-worst-of-times/paul-behrens/9781911648093
NB: David's coughing was not coronavirus but an old cough that's slowly getting better :)
The 3.5% tipping point: https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/success-nonviolent-civil-resistance/
Civil resistance, quantified: http://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820
How minority views become majority views: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-25-revolution-how-big-does-a-minority-have-to-be-to-reshape-society/
Clare Farrell (XR) says it's better to do something... https://dezwijger.nl/magazine/podcast-65-clare-farrell
David sees the glass as half-empty https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=23
David's review of the Limits to Growth (1972) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/06/the-limits-to-growth-the-review/
Episode 71: In this AMA, David answers 12 questions [see below] on the social-economic-political impacts of coronavirus and Covid-19.
Blog post on C-19 and climate change https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=1691
Do less, better research http://www.the100.ci/2020/03/26/crisis-research-fast-and-slow/
Good for sustainability? https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/03/26/the-epidemic-provides-a-chance-to-do-good-by-the-climate
Big Brother will save you https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/03/26/countries-are-using-apps-and-data-networks-to-keep-tabs-on-the-pandemic
https://dissidentvoice.org/2020/03/coronavirus-vs-the-mass-surveillance-state-which-poses-the-greater-threat/
Questions Diego from the Netherlands: Is is probable that there will be a big financial crisis (2008 level or worse)? :)
Isaura from Portugal: The world economy right now is doing pretty bad. Stocks are down, industries are temporarily shut and there's a 2008-magnitude recession coming. How much can we blame covid-19 for what is happening right now? Is the virus just hurrying the crisis or are is it the main cause of it?
Damian from Berkeley: Most recessions have vague causes, but this one's cause is obvious. If C19 disappears, things will resume, perhaps better than before (due to reforms, etc.). Would this imply a WWII, rather than 2008 scenario? What are the lessons of WWII? Also, if WWII is the scenario, then stimulus is inappropriate, right? -- except to help people survive. Or, are there macroeconomic worries that economic policy can address?
Robert from Boulder: Are you aware of ways to regionally forecast virus-spread based on a computer model with data on weather, sick people, etc? Could we use a model to avoid shutting down low-risk areas?
Gabi from Den Haag: is there going to be a sustained disruption in how we manage our economy? Maybe we shoudnt outsource so much? Maybe we care too much for meaningless things? and WHY toilet paper?!?!?
Antoine from Switzerland: With a synchronised experiment of working from home, what will happen with productivity? Will some people realize they have nothing to do? Will academics write dozens of (useful) papers?
Edward from the Netherlands: What are your expectations regarding Universal Basic Income in the context of the corona crisis? Do you expect this to go through, and if so, do you expect it to linger past the initial shocks?
Hannah from Den Haag: Do you agree with Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine theory where she claims the crisis will be used to transform social and cultural values into capitalistic power and profits?
Judi from Leiden: Can this Corona crisis be a game changer towards more economic equality in the world in the longer run, or is it more likely to ultimately make things worse?
Daniel from Den Haag: Do you think there will be violent social movements towards restructuring our current business-as-usual economy?
Daniela from Peru: Do you think this crisis will have a long-term impact on sustainable practices?
Isaura from Portugal: Portugal’s Prime-Minister declared a state of emergency, and people's lives are paused. Assuming you have watched Black Mirror, then how would you "end" the episode?
Episode 70: Tim is a Research Analyst at the World Benchmarking Alliance (https://www.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org). He graduated in 2015 with a Master of Science coordinated by the Central European University, University of Manchester, and University of the Aegean, with his thesis focusing on adaptive water governance and drought (mis)management in California. Tim first worked as an innovation consultant on various EU-funded projects and then as a business analyst for a startup developing biosolar water reuse technology. After working over a year for the Access to Seeds Index in Amsterdam, investigating the role of private seed-companies in supporting smallholder farmers, Tim joined the World Benchmarking Alliance, first focusing on the Seafood Stewardship Index but is now focusing on circularity.
Episode motto: "Impact is hard to measure but measurement is necessary."
Links of interest: Some explanation on our narrative and focus around the seven key transformations: https://www.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/system-transformations/
Seafood Stewardship Index: https://seafood.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/
SDG2000: list of companies WBA will benchmark by 2023 https://sdg2000.worldbenchmarkingalliance.org/
Episode 69: Michel Ivulic (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michel-ivulic-648398123) was born in Croatia and raised in The Netherlands. He attended LUC wanting to “change the world”, but ultimately ended up stressing about life and grades so much he forgot about that goal. After graduating in 2016 with a BSc in Sustainability, he went on to pursue a Master’s degree in Energy Science looking for something a little more hands-on with calculations and programming. He graduated in 2019 after interning for over a year with a startup developing algorithms for automated electricity trading. Now, he is working as a Data Science & Engineering trainee at the ANWB. Getting to this point required him to realise that grades didn’t really matter as much as he thought; mental health does matter a lot more than he thought; and being honest and genuine creates great opportunities.
This episode's motto: "Don't let a problem eat you alive."
Episode 68: Tom Jenney is a writer living in Phoenix, Arizona. On Twitter (@JenneyTom), Tom is a “Jesus freak, happy dad and hubbie, backpacker, libertarian market fundamentalist --- and rabblerouser.” Most recently, he worked for twelve years as a grassroots organizer, policy wonk, lobbyist and fundraiser for Americans for Prosperity, an organization associated with the Koch Brothers. In the past, he also worked for the libertarian Cato and the Goldwater Institute think-tanks.
This episode's motto: "We all want liberty but we all don't agree on what that means."
Links of interest _From Tom_ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Problem_of_Political_Authority https://openborderscomic.com http://daviddfriedman.com/laws_order/index.shtml
_From David_ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/02/review-the-cartoon-introduction-to-microeconomics/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/04/a-decentralized-path-to-development-and-freedom/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/02/united-we-stand-divided-we-fall/
Episode 67: Brandon Zicha (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/brandon-zicha#tab-1) is Assistant Professor of Policy Science at LUC. His research and teaching interest focus on how information is processed by social and political institutions and used to make collective decisions in modern societies, as well as the careful use and informed understanding of quantitative scientific methods for understanding social issues.
This episode's motto: "Diverse perspectives and knowledge lead to better choices."
Links:
Yuval Levin "How Did Americans Lose Faith in Everything?" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/opinion/sunday/institutions-trust.html
Kathleen Thelen's "How Institutions Evolve" https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/how-institutions-evolve/41C3108269725FA3AF2C4AE87A50685E
Episode 66: Catherine E. Semcer ( https://www.perc.org/people/catherine-e-semcer-2/)is a Research Fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) where her work focuses on rights and market based solutions to policy challenges in environmental security, conservation finance and sustainability... [continued below....]
This episode's motto: "Owners are the best conservationists."
__Links__ Habitat Loss and the Great Migration: https://www.perc.org/2019/12/04/will-the-circle-be-unbroken/
IWCC Testimony: https://www.perc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/IWCC_Testimony_3_18.pdf
Conservationists Should Support Trophy Hunting: https://www.perc.org/2019/09/06/conservationists-should-support-trophy-hunting/
CECIL Act Testimony: https://www.perc.org/2019/07/18/the-role-of-hunting-in-conserving-african-wildlife/
David on hunting elephants: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/09/demand-for-elephants-can-save-elephants/
[Bio continued...] Catherine is the past COO of Humanitarian Operations Protecting Elephants (H.O.P.E.), a boutique NGO delivering training, advisory, assistance and procurement services to African counter-poaching programs. During her tenure with H.O.P.E. she was responsible for leading the opening of projects in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Ethiopia.
Prior to working with H.O.P.E. Catherine served as Senior Washington D.C. Representative for Sierra Club, where she worked to advance conservation programs in the Department of Defense to increase training range sustainability as well as further efforts to conserve the Greater Sage Grouse. Her work led to her being recognized by the USDA-NRCS for “outstanding contributions” to their Sage Grouse Initiative. Catherine began her career with McKinsey & Company where she supported the Environmental and Non-Profit Practices.
Catherine’s research and commentary has appeared in the International Journal of Environmental Studies, The Hill, and other publications. She has also been a guest on programs including Intelligence Squared US and EconTalk, where she has debated and discussed the political economy of African wildlife conservation.
In addition to her work with PERC, Catherine serves as a research fellow with the African Wildlife Economy Institute at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. She is a member of Sustainable Use and Livelihood Specialist Group International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Protected Areas Finance Working Group of Conservation Finance Alliance. Catherine is also a contributing editor to Conservation Frontlines and a past field editor of African Indaba, the official African publication of the International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation (CIC).
Catherine is a graduate of Muhlenberg College. In her spare time she enjoys fly fishing, upland bird and waterfowl hunting, and sailing.
Episode 65: Nicolas Dunais (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ndunais/) has been living and working in the Middle East since 2005, with assignments on the ground in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq and Qatar. His broad areas of focus are at the nexus of economic development, state building and regional politics. After working as a management consultant for 12 years, he now operates as an independent consultant and currently spends his free time in setting up a foundation for the protection of Yemen's heritage.
This episode's motto: "It's hard to build a strong economy from the top down."
See also these related episodes:
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/11-kristinn-mason-has-seen-energy-extremes
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/15-martin-keulertz-says-solar-will-free-the-middle-east
https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/17-alireza-bazargan-wants-to-improve-irans-water-use
Episode 64: Antoine Champetier (http://ecoecomodeling.com/) is an agricultural and natural resource economist. He builds models that combine economics and ecology and has focused on pollination and beekeeping economics as a case study of ecosystem service institutions and policies.
He was trained as an agronomist at AgroParisTech in France and holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California in Davis. He has taught at the ETH in Zurich. He is a visiting lecturer and researcher at UC Davis and a consultant for private and public institutions. He lives in Zurich, Switzerland.
This episode's motto: "Bees are like migrant workers: always needed, but sometimes abused."
Links:
Pollination in the United States: http://www.choicesmagazine.org/choices-magazine/theme-articles/pollination-service-markets-evolution-and-outlook
Cheung (1973) "Fable of the Bees" https://www.jstor.org/stable/724823
Episode 63: Damian Park (twitter @DamianBPark) teaches courses in environmental economics and microeconomics at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business. His research focuses on California water rights and water markets. Damian received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Berkeley in 2011 and his BA in Economics from Carleton College in 2003. He lives with his wife and daughters in Oakland.
This episode's motto: "Learning results from the interaction between students and teachers."
Are cell phones destroying the college classroom? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/12/theyre-abysmal-students-are-cell-phones-destroying-the-college-classroom/
Episode 62: Don Schultz was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1946. He has a B.A. (Manchester University, History/Political Science, 1968), M.A. (Miami University, Political Science, 1969), and Ph.D. (UC Santa Barbara, Political Science, 1975). After teaching at various university political science departments from 1969 to 1977, he worked on energy at the California Energy Commission (1979-1986 and 2008-2018), Hawaii's Division of Consumer Advocacy (1994-2000), and California Public Utilities Commission (1986-2008).
This episode's motto: "California energy policy bounces between chaos and constriction."
__Links of interest__
America’s Radioactive Secret https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-radioactive-investigation-937389/
https://www.npr.org/2019/10/02/766374077/it-all-ties-rachel-maddow-says-of-oil-and-gas-russia-and-democracy-in-blowout
David on radioactive water https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/10/endangered-or-radioactive-water/
The Dreamt Land (2019)by Mark Arax https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41883929-the-dreamt-land
Cadillac Desert (1986) by Marc Reisner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
Dynamos and Virgins (1984) by David Roe https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2476144.Dynamos_and_Virgins
David on Westlands https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/03/king-of-california-the-review/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/03/westlands-worse-than-i-thought/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/03/time-to-shut-westlands-down/
Episode 61: Edwin G. Dolan holds a PhD in economics from Yale University. He has taught in the United States at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, George Mason University and Gettysburg College. From 1990 to 2001, he taught in Moscow, Russia, where he and his wife founded the American Institute of Business and Economics (AIBEc), an independent, not-for-profit MBA program. After 2001, he taught economics in several European countries, including Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics campus in Riga. He is currently a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Niskanen Center, for which he writes on environment, health care, and social policy. He lives in Northwest Lower Michigan.
This episode's motto: "If the scissors [of supply and demand] aren't cutting emissions fast enough, then you need a carbon tax (via government regulation)."
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-scissors-are-cutting-carbon-emissions-but-not-fast-enough/
__Links__
Prices without markets or markets without prices? https://medium.com/swlh/prices-without-markets-or-markets-without-prices-5d9809659fbb
The Austrian view of carbon pricing (part 1 of 2)http://archive.economonitor.com/dolanecon/2014/03/31/austrian-environmental-economics-air-pollution-as-a-coordination-problem/
There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (DZ's review) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/12/tanstaafl-the-review/
The Bet (Simons vs Ehrlich) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/08/julian-simon-loses-the-bet/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2018/04/the-myopia-of-techno-optimists/
Walter Block (episode 5) https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/5-walter-e-block-on-pollution-regulation-anarchy-and-the-state
Episode 60: Karel Thieme is an entrepreneur and Pure Water-ambassador who worked in the tea trade for over 20 years before turning full time to pure water. He learned about tea and water at Rotterdam Tea Trade (importer/exporter), where he discovered the beauty and rich variety of genuine tea prepared with pure water. He started Thieme's Echte Thee in 1993, packing, branding and supplying fine teas, which were to be prepared with purified water. With a focus on the revival of Tea Culture, he supplied the prestigious Amstel Hotel in Amsterdam, 5 star hotels in London, New York, Paris and Dubai (7-stars). His secret was preparing high quality leaf tea specialities with tapwater purified by Reverse Osmosis.
In his four decades of work, he transformed from a tea-taster who learned about the importance of water into a pure water ambassador with knowledge of tea. Over the years various kinds of pollution of (tap)water have created an ever bigger need for clean purified tapwater. Therefore, Karel and his partner Olivier Olmer founded Aquapeak in 2018. Aquapeak (www.aquapeak.nl) offers, installs and services the newest generation practical and affordable home reverse osmosis water purification system; the Aquapeak Waterpurifier.
Karel is grateful for having contributed to the revival of Tea Culture and hopeful as to contributing to the revaluation of water.
This episode's motto: "Water is the key to life and clean water is the key to a good life."
Links:
Ultra (industrial) water is dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMh1lyeNsPc
"Water civilization: The evolution of the Dutch drinking water sector" https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=164
Aquiva beer from clean water: https://www.aquivafoundation.org
Episode 59.5: David has a few thoughts on time and hopes you can get a little more time and a little less stress. If you have a story to share on this topic, then please email dzetland@gmail.com.
See you in 2020!
Episode 59: Titus van der Spek is a lecturer, research consultant and coach who is passionate about helping others explore how they can create blended environmental, social and commercial value. In 2014 Titus co-authored ‘Leadership in Social Business’, a book that provides practitioner-driven insights into social enterprises leadership strategies. Titus completed his PhD in 2018 from the University of Essex in the UK entitled ‘Exploring the crux of Social Entrepreneurship - The pursuit of blended value creation’. He has worked in the field of entrepreneurship and development consulting for 8 years. His clients include: Amnesty International, Local Giving, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), Action Aid NL, ICS, SOS Children’s Villages, Oxfam Novib, The European Commission and Context, International Cooperation (CIC). As a lecturer he has been active for 5 years. He is currently a lecturer in business management at The Hague University of Applied Sciences and Leiden University’s Honours Academy. In 2020 Titus will stop his work as academic in the Netherlands and move to Bangladesh to work on impact incubation and education.
Today's motto: "Community reduces poverty"
The Divide https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=857
Half of Bangladesh will be flooded by 2050: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/29/climate/coastal-cities-underwater.html
Adaptation should secure communities, not property https://www.thesourcemagazine.org/adaptation-secure-communities-not-property/
Episode 58: Judi Mesman (https://www.judimesman.nl) is a full professor at Leiden University, based at both the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs in the Hague where she is the dean of Leiden University College, and at the Faculty of Social Sciences in the Education and Child Studies Institute. She has been at Leiden University for almost 20 years (not counting her time as a student), and loves its synergy of tradition and new adventures.
At Leiden University she enjoys the challenging combination of research, teaching, management, and societal engagement. Focusing on the study of societal challenges from an intergenerational perspective, she and her team investigate the role of parents, schools, peers, media, and policies on the development of children and youth, and how they find their place in society.
Today's motto: "Listen to kids -- communication affects their future."
Women and non-Western characters underrepresented in secondary school textbooks https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/11/women-and-non-western-characters-underrepresented-in-secondary-school-textbooks
Episode 57: Beth St. John (https://aspire-institute.nl/) is a 50 year-old feminist and entrepreneur who is very much looking forward to the end of perimenopause. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, she has also lived in Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Princeton and Amsterdam. However, she now resides in the historic village of Ouderkerk aan de Amstel with two of her four children, her partner Tom, his daughter, and their dog and cat. Beth spends most of her time plotting various ways she can move back to Amsterdam as soon as possible since she feels incredibly uncomfortable around too much nature, fresh air, and nice people. The rest of her time is spent on planning academic sustainability study tours in The Netherlands and consulting with other sustainability-focused entrepreneurs on their marketing and communications efforts. Beth loves to travel, has been to 28 countries, and religiously always has some sort of travel plans in the works. She values her family, good food and wine, her independence, being productive, and Planet Earth (but not necessarily in that order).
This episode's motto: "Aging for women is entirely different than aging for men!"
Episode 56: Gábor Ungvári (https://rekk.hu/colleague/1/gabor_ungvari ) is senior water economist at AQUA.REKK the water economics unit of the Regional Centre for Energy Policy Research. He received his MSc in economics in the Budapest University of Economic Sciences.
His main professional interest is applying economics for the advanced use of water resources and water related ecosystem services in the current context of water policy problems.
Since 1999 he has worked in a series of water-resource focused, interdisciplinary research and economic consultancy programs. His analytical work in water economics targets (among many) flood risk management, the problem of waterlogging management of sub-surface water resources and waterway development issues on the Danube. These experiences were used in the Economic Expert Group that contributed to the first National River Basin Management Plan of the WFD and in the Ex-ante economic analysis in the current second round of the plan’s supervision.
You can find all his papers on researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gabor_Ungvari2
The paper we discussed: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335619466_A_macroeconomics-inspired_interpretation_of_the_terrestrial_water_cycle
To make the complex issues along the water cycle more understandable for a wider audience he edits the Hungarian language blog and webpage www.szelidvizorszag.hu
This episode's motto: "If you think the economy is complex and interconnected then wait til you look at ecology!"
Other links: Water for the Recovery of the Climate - A New Water Paradigm . http://www.waterparadigm.org/download/Water_for_the_Recovery_of_the_Climate_A_New_Water_Paradigm.pdf
Traditional floodplain farming in the Hungarian Flats https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-73250-3_28
Episode 55: Brendan Frett (https://pharmcollege.uams.edu/aboutus/contact-us/directory/22879-2/) is a professor in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and moonlights as a hobbyist watchmaker (https://www.reddit.com/user/AreWGadmin). His watch restoration projects often involve dramatic movement finishings that breathe new life into vintage timepieces. Brendan is fascinated by what makes things tick – from both a medical and horological standpoint.
This episode's motto: "Don't take apart a watch near shag carpeting!"
Episode 54: Gjalt Huppes former head of Department Industrial Ecology, CML, Leiden University helped develop models at the interface economy-environment: LCA (Life Cycle Assessment), SFA (Substance Flow Analysis) and E-IOA (Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis). He now focuses on climate change governance and related resource governance. Key is institutions redesign to stimulate and accommodate renewable electricity and related energy carriers such as batteries, hydrogen and pumped hydro. Institutions are a prime requisite for successful climate policy, with publicly controlled infrastructure a second main pillar, and research, development and demonstration the third more applied pillar. The physical basis of society, energy and resources, requires not just physical and technical-economic considerations, as security of supply is based on substantially global governance institutions. Working less and consuming differently, as key culture shifts for sustainability, also require substantial institutional changes.
This episode's motto: "Climate chaos is going to be bad but our inaction will make it much worse."
Strategic Designs for Climate Policy Instrumentation: Governance at the Crossroads https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328956884_Strategic_Designs_for_Climate_Policy_Instrumentation_Governance_at_the_Crossroads
Paper on CC and Syria's civil war (not by Gjalt): http://csm.org.pl/pl/component/phocadownload/category/65-2018?download=902:csm-komentarz-water-security-2018
Episode 53: Alex Baum (https://www.linkedin.com/in/baumawb/) is a city and mobility planner with a masters focused on "Sustainable Transportation and Infrastructure Planning”. He is very interested in the integration of land-use, mobility, and sustainability planning, and how this relationship creates livable, thriving communities. He has worked for a public transport agency and a regional planning organization. Prior to his career in planning, he co-founded and managed a non-profit community sailing center, Hudson River Community Sailing (https://hudsonsailing.org/), which teaches math, science, and leadership to underserved NYC youth through sailing and boat building and provides waterfront access to the NYC community at large.
This episode's motto: "Build trust by talking to each other"
Links: https://vimeo.com/237581965 (a recent HRCS video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BUyWVg1xI (crazy planners)
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2010/01/weapons-of-the-weak-the-review/ (Seeing Like a State)
Episode 52: Steven Asei-Dantoni (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greatteachersteve/) in his own words: "As far back as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a doctor. I was dreaming of traveling the world to heal people. Life happened with its up and down. Along the way, my goals might have changed but my life purpose stayed the same. I am passionate about helping people to become who they truly are. I am obsessed with championing heroes of change. I believe in the interconnectedness and the power of the community. As a learning experience designer I focus on creating deep human transformative experiences. Time and time again, I have seen the magic of human connections operate successfully.
I am a lecturer, researcher and international consultant in the field of social innovation. My work focuses primarily on applying “Play-based learning” to improve educational experiences. I work with public and private organizations using design thinking and innovation to solve complex problems. I co-designed solutions for teachers to be more creative and innovative. I am a lecturer at The Hague University of Applied Sciences. I hold a Masters of Arts in Geopolitics and International Relations from Sciences Po Toulouse."
This episode's motto: "Teaching is easy when everyone is excited."
Links:
How I became a (pirate) university lecturer https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-i-became-pirate-university-lecturer-steven-asei-dantoni/
Episode 51: Veronika Chutska (https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronika-chutska-b6046b194/) is a second year Security Studies student at Leiden University. She is interested in the resources in relationship to security and the crisis management.
This episode's motto: "Security is relative to what you expect."
Links:
https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/12/liquid-assets-the-review/
"Living in a post-water world" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435171
"Using prices to manage water scarcity" https://ssrn.com/abstract=3435167
"Society, politics and desalination" http://www.kysq.org/pubs/Desal_C18.pdf
"The political economy of land and water grabs" https://www.kysq.org/pubs/C33.pdf
Episode 50.5: In this episode, I answer your questions in an Ask Me Anything format. It was really fun to do this, and I'll definitely do another episode after another 50 episodes with guests :)
A big thanks to Cornelia for voicing your questions!
This episode's motto: "Everyone finds their own way. Be creative, not regretful."
Links of interest:
Give people another passport https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/04/a-decentralized-path-to-development-and-freedom/
Re-organizing economics to make it useful https://www.core-econ.org
My review of Doughnut Economics: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=82
Coachabamba vs the locally-managed water supply: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2009/02/cochabamba-update/ https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/11/why-cochabamba-failed/
Raj Chetty (using data to think about economics) https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/14/18520783/harvard-economics-chetty https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2012/11/are-models-useful/
Tax property to get the rich https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/07/the-political-economy-of-property-taxes/
Carbon tax and rebate https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/07/more-on-carbon-taxes/
The threat of climate change https://kysq.org/lp2m/we-have-no-insurance-against-this-risk/ https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=1125
Improving water manager performance https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/12/internal-performance-insurance-markets/ (and I'll write a paper in 2020 on this topic!)
Episode 50: Rutger Hoekstra (@Rutger_Hoekstra) is the author of “Replacing GDP by 2030: Towards a common language for wellbeing and sustainability” which is published by Cambridge University Press.
http://www.rutgerhoekstra.com/replacing-gdp-by-2030/
He has a PhD in environmental economics and is specialized in metrics for wellbeing and sustainability (“Beyond-GDP”). He has worked with/for Statistics Netherlands, United Nations, OECD, World Bank, European Commission, European Central Bank, various ministries, NGO’s, KPMG and large companies. He was the co-chair (together with Jan Pieter Smits) of the UN-ECE/OECD/Eurostat Task Force which developed the Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations on Measuring Sustainable Development. He was the project leader of the Sustainability Monitor for the Netherlands which was the predecessor of the current Monitor Brede Welvaart. He was also worked for the Dutch Parliament as an expert for the Commission for Broader Measures of Well-being.
Rutger has lectured at many universities and published numerous publications on sustainable development, natural and human capital, globalisation, circular economy, input-output analysis, decomposition analysis and big data applications. He was also Scientific Director of True Value at KPMG-Sustainability where he helped corporate clients measure their social and environmental impacts using the True Value methodology. In 2019, Rutger founded his own company, MetricsForTheFuture.com which advises companies, governments and international institutes for better metrics on wellbeing, sustainability and value-creation.
Picture: Sjoerd van der Hucht Fotografie
This episode's motto: "Life is too complicated for a single measure of progress"
Episode 49: Valera (https://twitter.com/valera_zakharov) helped create and currently works on the Mobile Developer Experience team at Slack. He tried feature (Android) development once, but quickly discovered that his passion lies in building tools and infrastructure for other engineers. Prior to Slack, he led the development of Android Espresso and contributed to the infrastructure that scaled test execution to support the gargantuan needs of Google.
This episode's motto: "Business productivity is about facilitating communications more than writing code."
Episode 48: Mark (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcgeemark/) lives in San Francisco, where he leads client solution design at CyberSource, a Visa company. Before joining Visa, Mark headed the product development team at TSYS that grew the payment gateway by 10X. Part of this success came from leading the Agile transformation of the IT, Product, PMO, Governance and Finance teams involved in the payment gateway business. Before that he managed a privately held web content management solutions start-up, where he founded a consulting practice that tripled revenues in two years. Prior to Quantum Art, Mark adventured in Germany, where he worked as senior product manager at Intershop Communications, and as a business analyst at Hewlett-Packard. While in Germany, Mark studied in the Euro*MBA program and founded Western Europe's first graduate education distance learning fraternity. Prior to Intershop, Mark was on board with Pacific Bell as they launched the first “Baby Bell” Internet service using Netscape 0.9. Mark’s first job out of college was at Franklin Templeton, where he got into public speaking through Toastmasters and Dale Carnegie. A lifelong learner, Mark studied Philosophy and Business Economics at University of California Santa Barbara. Mark’s passions are filmmaking and travel to film festivals. He attends South By Southwest every year and has been to Cannes and the Venice International festivals. With the Scary Cow filmmaker co-op, Mark produced and acted in independent films (e.g., https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1778349).
This episode's motto: "Settling down can be a wonderful thing."
Episode 45: G. Tracy Mehan, III is Executive Director, Government Affairs, for the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He is also an Adjunct Professor at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University and Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College. He was Principal with The Cadmus Group, Inc., an environmental consulting firm, from 2004 to 2014. Mehan served on EPA’s Environmental Financial Advisory Board (2014-2018) as well as the boards of the U.S. Water Alliance and the Great Lakes Observing System. Mehan served as Assistant Administrator for Water at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 2001-2003. Mehan also served as director of the Michigan Office of the Great Lakes (1993-2001) and as Associate Deputy Administrator of EPA in 1992. He was director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources from 1989 to 1992. Mehan is a graduate of Saint Louis University and its School of Law.
This episode's motto: "Political interference can be bad for quality water service."
Links from Tracy: (1) Buried No Longer: Confronting America’s Water Infrastructure Challenge: http://www.urbanwaterslearningnetwork.org/resources/awwa-confronting-americas-water-infrastructure-challenge2017/
(2)Addressing Affordability as a Necessary Element of Full‐Cost Pricing: https://awwa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.5942/jawwa.2017.109.0132
Related links from David:
(3) "Water civilization: The evolution of the Dutch drinking water sector" https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=164
(4) "The struggle for residential water metering in England and Wales" http://www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/alldoc/articles/vol9/v9issue1/307-a9-1-6
(5)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2016/01/flint-detroit/
(6)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2017/08/lead-poisoning-gasoline-lobbies-and-crime/
(7) https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2008/10/the-good-side-of-bottled-water/
(8)https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2011/07/the-future-of-water-the-review/
(9) Water pollution and falling sperm counts: https://kysq.org/aguanomics/2007/12/women-responsible-for-drooping/ https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=255
Episode 44: Sharon Shewmake (https://www.facebook.com/VoteSharonShewmake/) is a State Legislator from Washington State. She is also an economics professor at Western Washington University where she specializes in environmental and urban economics. She is also a mother of two little boys, an author of a children’s book about economics and a mediocre soccer player.
This episode's motto: "More economists need to get into politics!"
You can sign up for the legislative newsletter by emailing Sharon.shewmake@leg.wa.gov
Donate: https://www.sharon4whatcom.com/donate
Episode 43: A journalist once described Ties Rijcken as a '21st century renaissance man'. Currently he is semi-focused as chief editor of the professional magazine TU Delft DeltaLinks, member of the Lek dike landscape quality supervisory team, and founder of Flows: a startup internet platform (http://flowsplatform.nl/about) to support water infrastructure development through visualisation and stakeholder participation. He would like to use Flows technology to benefit low-income countries.
Ties is probably the only water professional in the world with a BSc in Geophysics, MSc in Industrial Design and PhD in Hydraulic Engineering. He has written 100+ articles on water systems thinking and landscape quality design, often bringing a "wabi" perspective (derived from Japanese design philosophy) on the interaction between nature and technology.
Ties is passionate about using science to support policy, fostering participation, and landscapes that make us feel alive.
This episodes motto: "Plan for risk. Experience uncertainty."
Its extended title is "Amsterdam is safe from rising seas... but not safe from climate chaos."
Ties's PhD dissertation ("The Dutch flood risk system since 1986"): http://flowsplatform.nl/#/emergo---the-dutch-flood-risk-system-since-1986-1508416523282____382____
David's post on climate chaos: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=1125
and "The Netherlands has no Plan B" https://www.vn.nl/rising-sea-levels-netherlands/
Episode 42: Matthew Pearson founded Moon Fabrications Inc (moonfab.co) in 2018 after a brief career in behavioral research at two tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. He earned a PhD in economics from UC Davis in 2009, which he now uses primarily as filler in short bio statements written in the third person. He is a father of two children and one dog, and he lives with his partner in San Francisco.
This episode's motto: "Life is complicated. Embrace it."
Episode 41: David Green has a strong interest in the broad areas of sustainability and social justice, and has worked and travelled abroad extensively. After working as a mechanical engineer for Ingersoll Rand and as a real estate agent, David spent the next 11 years working in remote areas of the world as a science technician, educator, sailor, engineer and guide. Between job assignments, he arranged to travel and to study sustainability and health & nutrition. Since arriving in the Bay Area, David has maintained his multi-faceted engagement, working in education, as a sustainable agriculture promoter and entrepreneur. Most recently, David collaborated to create the Michoacan Organics brand, where he managed the logistics, sales and producer experience to help sell millions of dollars of organic avocados into the United States. He is also involved in Producers Market, a start-up working to connect farmers and consumers.
This episode's motto: "It gets easier with time."
Links:
Producers Market episode: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/07-keith-agoda-connects-farmers
David's posts on Keynes, productivity and degrowth: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=961 https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=992
Five-O soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6GyJoWPq8
Episode 40: Less than six months ago, Athena Vassilopoulos graduated from LUC with a major in Governance Economics & Development and a minor in Social Business & Entrepreneurship. She decided to take time to work on her personal development, rather than pursuing a masters degree or an internship. Considering her passion for food, she began working in kitchens.
During her time off, she became interested in programming and started to look for opportunities to engage in the field. To improve her understanding, she decided to take part in a coding bootcamp in Montreal. As part of her preparation for this future endeavour, she explored the digital sphere in Luxembourg, discovering Women In Digital Empowerment (https://wide.lu), a Luxembourgish NGO working towards empowering individuals in a digital setting. She followed a blockchain training with them before actively contributing to their blockchain and open data related projects.
In the meantime, she also became a member of Letzblock (https://www.letzblock.com), the main blockchain association in Luxembourg. These experiences gave her better insights and fostered her interest for the coordination of technological innovation within the digital transition.
In this podcast, she talks about the struggle of taking time in a fast-paced society where everyone seems to be moving at the speed of light, the importance of asking yourself why and making sure that you are coherent with yourself.
Her motto? “The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.” -- Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Episode 39: Dale Whittington https://sph.unc.edu/adv_profile/dale-whittington-phd/) is a Professor in the Departments of Environmental Sciences & Engineering and City & Regional Planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), and the Global Research Institute at the University of Manchester (UK). He is the author of over 100 scholarly publications, including (with Prof. Duncan MacRae) a graduate textbook on public policy analysis, Expert Advice for Policy Choice: Analysis and Discourse. He has served as an advisor for three environmental economics networks in the Global South: 1) Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA); 2) Latin American and Caribbean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP); and 3) Center for Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis (CEEPA). Since 2014, Prof. Whittington and Dr. Duncan Thomas have offered the two-part Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), “Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries” on the COURSERA platform. Over 25,000 students have participated from 184 countries.
This episode's mottos: "Water -- you get far more value than you pay for" and "Service quality rises when public knowledge rises."
Links: Dale's paper, Ancient Instincts http://www.kysq.org/docs/Whittington_Ancient_Instincts.pdf
David's op/ed on Los Angeles's bad water pricing: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2014/03/14/if-clean-water-is-a-right-why-have-we-been-so-wrong/ideas/up-for-discussion/
Episode 38: Omar Al-Ubaydli (@omareconomics)is the Director of Research at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (https://www.derasat.org.bh), an affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and an affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center. He previously served as a member of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Joint Advisory Board of Economists and a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.
This episode's motto: "Sometimes the tribe helps, sometimes it knows too much."
Omar's articles: http://www.omareconomics.com/mainstream-media
Jive Talk 15 with Martin Keulertz: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/15-martin-keulertz-says-solar-will-free-the-middle-east
Episode 37: Ralph Pentland was Director of Water Planning and Management in the Canadian Federal Government from 1978-91. In that capacity, he was responsible for negotiating and administering numerous federal - provincial and Canada - U.S. Agreements, was responsible for administering the Canada Water Act and the International River Improvements Act, and was the primary author of the 1987 Federal Water Policy. Since 1991, Ralph served as a water and environmental policy consultant in many countries, served as Canadian Co-Chairman on several International Joint Commission Boards and Committees, collaborated with numerous non-governmental and academic organizations, including Chairing the Canadian Water Issues Council at the University of Toronto for a decade, helped negotiate major intergovernmental agreements in the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence and Mackenzie River Basins, assisted in the development of federal water export legislation, and was co-author of the book Down the Drain: How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources. He is currently President of Ralbet Enterprises Incorporated, a Member of the Forum for Leadership on Water, a Board Member with LakePulse, and a Member of the Advisory Committee for Environmental Defense Canada.
This episode's motto: "Policy depends on public opinion, which tends to lag science by 20 years."
Links of interest: http://www.aguanomics.com/2013/11/down-drain-review.html https://www.aguanomics.com/2017/05/so-what-would-carbon-tax-really-cost.html
Episode 36: Jori Korpershoek graduated LUC in the summer of 2016 with a Bsc in Governance, Economics and Development. He is mainly interested in knowledge and information, and how societies learn though bottom-up processes. After working for a year, he enrolled in an Mphil in economics. Although he had been a (maybe over)-active class participant for his three years at LUC, for the first semester of his Mphil he was reduced to muttering "wait, what just happened?" to himself as the professors scrolled through endless equations.
This episode's motto: "Math is a tool, not reality"
[Jori's photo here is from his marathon run, which was good training for graduate school ;) ]
Some links from Jori: http://www.econtalk.org/david-epstein-on-mastery-specialization-and-range A great conversation about learning, especially on how to think about learning, and the difference between "kind" and "wicked" learning environments.
https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/123456789/4370/759_PUB_working_paper_33.pdf?sequence%253D1 An academic paper on how hard it is to model uncertainty and discontinuities (tipping points etc.) and the limits of formal modeling when it comes to understanding the implications of climate change. Just because we can’t model exactly what’s happening, does not mean we should not be concerned.
Episode 35: Ed Bourque (http://www.edbourqueconsulting.com) has more than a decade of experience in the domestic and international water sector, in research, technical writing, communications, and proposal writing roles. He has experience in urban water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), urban planning, watershed management, and water governance / political economy analysis. He has experience working with major donors (USAID, the World Bank, and UNICEF), numerous NGOs, government, and the private sector.
Ed holds a B.A. in biology/environmental science from Colby College, an M.A. in international development from Brandeis University, and a PhD in geography from King’s College London. He speaks French and Swahili.
This episode's motto: "Co-dependency does not lead to good results."
Links of interest from David https://www.ib-net.org http://www.aguanomics.com/2017/07/review-development-projects-observed.html The Divide: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=857 https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/29-giel-verbeeck-makes-water-systems-sustainable
Links of interest from Ed
Here are some links on some of the water governance topics we discussed (enabling environments, project failures/corruption, and tools to address some of these issues).
Failure and corruption http://www.improveinternational.org/cause/why-do-water-points-fail/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failures_of_water_supply_and_sanitation_systems http://www.edbourqueconsulting.com/why-do-water-sector-public-private-participation-projects-ppps-fail/ https://ssir.org/articles/entry/development_malpractice_in_ghana https://qz-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/qz.com/africa/1368422/the-2018-hilton-prize-went-to-a-kenyan-nonprofit-that-builds-aerial-water-systems-for-slums/amp/ http://www.edbourqueconsulting.com/corruption-water-sector-water-mafias-exist/ http://www.watergetenemy.org/
Assessing access and improving enabling environments/institutions, finances, systems, and accountability frameworks. https://washdata.org/ http://sanitationandwaterforall.org/ https://www.unwater.org/publication_categories/glaas/ https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/investments/trackfin/en/ https://www.ircwash.org/resources/blended-finance https://thecityfix.com/blog/urban-water-governance-in-the-developing-world-accountability-and-affordability-are-keys-to-access-water-ed-bourque/ https://www.ircwash.org/symposium http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/527371468166770790/World-Development-Report-2004-Making-services-work-for-poor-people-Overview https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282848264_Mapping_of_Water_Sanitation_and_Hygiene_Sustainability_Tools https://akvopedia.org/wiki/FIETS_sustainability_principles http://washplus.org/rotary-usaid.html
Water wars: https://flows.hypotheses.org/1126
The Tanzania electricity scandal of 2008. https://www.africaresearchinstitute.org/newsite/publications/iptl-richmond-escrow-price-private-power-procurement-tanzania/ (NB: One major impact of failed electrical grids in Dar es Salaam was that deep water wells in the city that were dependent upon functional electrical grids were pretty much useless. It rendered the water supply for those off the piped water system (all but those who had a share of/access to those 50,000 or so water utility connections) non-existent for hours and days on end for months on end in that era.)
Episode 34: Tyler McMahon is an entrepreneur based in Colorado, USA and Kathmandu, Nepal. He graduated in 2007 from Colorado College with a degree in Economics focused on Environmental and Water Resource Economics. During this, in 2006 he studied abroad on the School for International Training (SIT) Nepal program and developed a proposal for a Fulbright Scholarship on the Economics of Urban Rainwater Harvesting in the Kathmandu Valley, which he won and went back to Nepal in 2007-2008. After this he worked for the UN World Food Progamme in Nepal on monitoring and evaluation and sustainability, which included the largest urban solar system in Kathmandu which set a trend for urban solar. In 2011, wanting to pursue the research from his Fulbright more and the fact that there was a market, need and few suppliers for rainwater harvesting, he started pitching people on the concept. Tyler McMahon, Suman Shakya, and Hem Narayan Shrestha and two others started SmartPaani in September 2011. On the side he races mountain bikes and trail runs, including competing the world's highest and one of the hardest mountain bike stage races, The Yak Attack, 6 times.
This episode's motto: "Cheap in the short run is expensive in the long run."
Tyler's description of Smartpaani:
"SmartPaani (http://smartpaani.com) started in Nepal in 2011, a direct result of my Fulbright (07-08) research on the economics of urban rainwater harvesting and subsequent efforts to get US properties to adopt it as well, along with my work at the UN World Food Programme on sustainability. The company provides a complete set of sustainable water management solutions: rainwater harvesting, water filtration, and wastewater treatment and recycling. These are primarily designed and built in Nepal, with a few products imported to complete the service offering. To date the company has reached over 2000 clients. These include rainwater harvesting systems that collect 50 million liters and recharge 150 million liters back into the ground regularly. Our clean water systems at schools cover more than 35,000 students and our wastewater treatment systems treat and recycle more than 20,000 liters daily. Finally our water filtration system for businesses, resorts and outdoor event management have eliminated the need for more than 40,000 plastic water bottles.
Our clients range from households, schools, and larger companies and industries including being the primary urban partner for Coca Cola's water neutrality project. SmartPaani's systems have also been instrumental in one of the most eco-friendly resorts in Asia, Pavilions Himalaya and recently in the new Green School for Blink Now Foundation/Kopila Valley where they both water 3 times before it leaves the premises.
The company's ability to address SDG #6 through sustainable water supply access, clean/safe drinking water, and wastewater treatment is unique and has won it recognition through Case Western University's Aim2Flourish award in 2017 and University of Michigan's Positive Business Award in 2018."
(The company pitch is a bit long, but trying to work out a pitch that captures our array of services and unique ability to attack the urban and even rural clean water issue with a multi-pronged approach)."
Episode 33: Maranie R. Staab, in her own words: "For me, photography is a means to an end and the camera, a tool to be used wisely.
In a world that seems to be increasingly focused on division, building walls, and what makes us different from one another, images have the capacity to transcend these lines and help us see a bit of ourselves in the “other.”
Driven by curiosity and a desire to learn I tend to be armed with a combination of compassion and moderated outrage at all that is wrong in the world. Though much of my work focuses on social issues, displacement and the impact of conflict, it is, for me, all about human-centered storytelling. I like to get close to people and their experiences and am forever grateful to those who allowme into their lives.
My belief in the power of images and storytelling is my constant motivation. We often hear that photography can change the world. I believe that, but it’s not the images alone; it is what we do with them. It is how we choose to engage, and how we allow ourselves to be informed and changed. Many times, this change has shown its face in the acceptance of another way of life, and the willingness to identify with others. My hope is that the work might help move us, as a collective society, one step closer to embracing our shared, flawed, humanity.
To date, I’ve had the privilege of working throughout Eastern and Western Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. I call Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania home but am currently a graduate student at Syracuse University. I’m always looking to connect with others so please reach out: maranie.rae@gmail.com"
This episode's motto: "Your life's value emerges from the choices you make."
Links: WWW: www.maranierae.com Instagram: @maranierae Skype: maranie_rae
Some photos by the young women we discussed: https://maranieraephotography.pixieset.com/bajadkandalaphotocamp/
Episode 32: Philip Bowles is the Chairman of Bowles Farming Company, Inc. of Los Banos, CA. Bowles produces cotton, alfalfa, wheat, processing tomatoes, melons, other row crops. Its foundations date from 1856. Philip earned his BA from Yale in Drama, now serves as president of the California Alfafa and Forage Association, and pursues a diverse range of hobbies (from hunting and fishing to collecting stamps, firearms, cane fly rods and antique silver).
This episode's motto: "Farming is hard work -- and not like you expect."
Links Water Education Foundation https://www.watereducation.org
...on Westlands https://www.aguanomics.com/2011/03/westlands-worse-than-i-thought.html https://www.aguanomics.com/2009/12/tom-birmingham-of-westlands-water.html
...on the Resnicks https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewart-resnick-california-water/ http://chanceofrain.com/2009/12/the-resnick-touch/
Episode 31: Russell Roberts is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Roberts hosts the weekly podcast EconTalk (http://www.econtalk.org), which features hour-long conversations with authors, economists, and business leaders. Past guests include Milton Friedman, Thomas Pikkety, Nassim Taleb, Christopher Hitchens, Marc Andreessen, and Michael Lewis. EconTalk was named podcast of the year in the 2008 Weblog Awards. Over 680 episodes are available at EconTalk.org and on iTunes at no charge.
His two rap videos on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc), created with filmmaker John Papola, have had more than ten million views on YouTube, been subtitled in eleven languages, and are used in high school and college classrooms around the world.
His animated poem, It’s a Wonderful Loaf (https://wonderfulloaf.org), is an ode to the emergent order of our everyday lives.
His latest book is Gambling With Other People's Money: How Perverse Incentives Caused the Financial Crisis, a look at how the bailouts of the past encouraged the recklessness that led the events of 2008.
His book on Adam Smith--How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature takes the lessons from Adam Smith’s little know masterpiece, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and applies them to modern life.
Roberts is also the author of three economic novels teaching economic lessons and ideas through fiction. The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity (Princeton University Press, 2008) tells the story of wealth creation and the unseen forces around us creating and sustaining economic opportunity. The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance (MIT Press, 2002) looks at corporate responsibility and a wide array of policy issues including anti-poverty programs, consumer protection, and the morality of the marketplace. His first book, The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism (Prentice Hall, 3rd edition, 2006) is on international trade policy and the human consequences of international trade. It was named one of the top ten books of 1994 by Business Week and one of the best books of 1994 by the Financial Times.
A three-time teacher of the year, Roberts has taught at George Mason University, Washington University in St. Louis (where he was the founding director of what is now the Center for Experiential Learning), the University of Rochester, Stanford University, and the University of California, Los Angeles. He earned his PhD from the University of Chicago and his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
You can find him on Twitter (https://twitter.com/EconTalker) and on Medium (https://medium.com/@russroberts)
The episode's motto: "Everything's complicated!"
Episode 30: Nils Hegel served in the German Military and Military Police for 12 years before resigning to co-found the MINE MARK Foundation, an NGO based in The Hague which aims to educate and protect children and youngsters in landmine affected areas worldwide by translating UNMAS guidelines into cartoons. Nils is also pursuing his Bachelor of Science in Security Studies at Leiden University.
This episode's motto: "We need a circular economy for landmines"
Links: www.minemark.org www.facebook.com/MineMarkHub/ www.linkedin.com/company/19017074/
Episode 29: Giel Verbeeck (https://www.linkedin.com/in/giel-verbeeck-3999194/) provides consultancy services to water utility companies and authorities in Eastern Europe, Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East. He holds two Master degrees in economics i.e. from the University of Amsterdam (1996) and the Central European University (1997). After his studies Giel started off as an equity research analyst and later as portfolio manager Eastern European equities. Ever since 2000 he has worked on water sector reform, corporate and sector restructuring, Financial and Operational Performance Improvement Programmes, performance monitoring systems, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), business and investment planning, staff optimisation, finance, accounting, billing, collection and Management Information Systems.
In projects he takes on the role of Team Leader and/or Financial Expert and has by now worked in over a dozen countries around the world.
Over the last years he is working more and more on water utility regulation and tariffs. Special interests include financial modelling according to the so called FAST modelling standards. (Flexible, Accurate, Structured and Transparent) and social measures in water supply and sanitation. Giel has published papers on water sector development, amongst others in the OECD studies in water.
At home in the Netherlands Giel raises four daughters together with his partner Christy. Together they have also established also TreeVelop Projects & Processes in 2004 for their consulting activities and TreeVelop People and Planet for their not-for-profit work (www.treevelop.nl).
In their hometown Bussum (Netherlands) Giel is active as a member of the “Christian community, movement for religious renewal” as well as well as in supporting the local Waldorf elementary school.
This epidode's motto: "Explain your goals, then deliver."
Links: https://www.aguanomics.com/2011/07/miya-waters-quest-to-plug-leaks.html https://www.aguanomics.com/2011/09/time-to-dump-increasing-block-rates.html
Episode 28: Paul's work focuses on the environmental impact of human consumption, and his research on climate change, energy, and food has appeared in leading scientific journals. Paul is passionate about science communication and his work has appeared in outlets such as The New York Times, the BBC, and Scientific American. Paul has recently finished a textbook on Food Sustainability, to be published with Oxford University Press at the start of 2019.
Paul is a physicist by training, his Ph.D. is from the University of Auckland (New Zealand), where he developed techniques for improving wind energy generation in mountainous terrain. Paul has worked in industry, NGOs, and academia. He has worked at the Royal Society of New Zealand, providing expert scientific advice to the New Zealand Government on environmental sustainability and other topics.
Note from David: This is definitely not our last talk!
This episode's motto: "I sure hope we get to the social tipping point before we get to the ecological one!"
EROI Charles Hall: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421513003856
A related article: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eroi-charles-hall-will-fossil-fuels-maintain-economic-growth/
Joeseph Tainter: https://www.cambridge.org/nl/academic/subjects/archaeology/archaeological-theory-and-methods/collapse-complex-societies?format=PB&isbn=9780521386739
David Graeber: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295/295446/bullshit-jobs/9780141983479.html
Rutger Hoekstra (Replacing GDP by 2030): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/replacing-gdp-by-2030/1583BE07055EAD85CBFECE1FC5EF6442
David's post on using time for life instead of work: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=961
David's book reviews of mentioned work: http://www.aguanomics.com/2010/05/collapse-review.html http://www.aguanomics.com/2010/06/limits-to-growth-review.html https://www.aguanomics.com/2017/08/review-in-our-hands.html (UBI)
Episode 27: Drawing on two decades of field experience studying resilient societies in Africa, Asia and the Americas, James Workman is a pioneering writer and entrepreneur in the design of equitable conservation markets for freshwater and marine resources. As a founder of the online water savings trading platform, AquaShares (http://aquashares.com), he has helped establish water markets in California and Morocco involving hundreds of users, and is now calling on this experience to aid California GSAs and their basin stakeholders in designing and operating cap-and-trade markets to better comply with SGMA.
Prior to establishing these markets, Workman was the Deputy Director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Solutions Center for fisheries markets, launched the International Water Association’s magazine The Source, was senior advisor to the World Commission on Dams under Nelson Mandela, and served as a White House appointed speechwriter to U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt.
Workman is author of the award-winning Heart of Dryness: How the last Bushmen can help us endure the coming age of permanent drought (https://www.amazon.com/Heart-Dryness-Bushmen-Permanent-Drought/dp/0802715583), and co-author of the forthcoming Sea Change: The fishermen’s revolution that is replenishing life offshore – and on. He studied at Yale & Oxford, and taught at Wesleyan, Whitman and Bates colleges, but his real education came from blowing up dams, releasing wolves, restoring wildland fires, guiding safaris, smuggling water to dissidents, breaking down in Africa's Kalahari Desert, getting married, and becoming a dad – although not ranked in that order.
This episode's motto: "Subsidies help bad farmers continue to make bad decisions."
Links: All in auctions: http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/12/all-in-auctions-is-published.html
Priests and Programmers: http://www.aguanomics.com/2009/01/priests-and-programmers-review.html
Episode 26: Theresa Lieb (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresa-lieb-89835886/ and https://twitter.com/_TheresaLieb) is a food systems researcher with the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University (https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/research/), working remotely from Palo Alto. She focuses on the intersection of food, climate and environmental policy. Previously, Theresa was a fellow at the World Resources Institute on researching pathways for sustainable dietary transitions in low and middle-income countries. She also completed traineeships with the German Development Bank and the German Development Service in Brazil to support small-scale farming of socio-biodiversity forest products in the Amazon in an effort to combat deforestation by strengthening local, sustainable livelihoods. With the NAZCA Institute for Marine Research in Ecuador, she supported the establishment of a participatory management plan for a new marine protected area and improved the sustainability of artisanal fishing practices on Ecuador’s northern coast.
Theresa holds an MPhil in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University and a BSc in International Development and Policy Science from Leiden University (Class of 2015). She speaks German, English, Spanish and Portuguese.
This episode's motto: "It's hard to cool down grass that's too hot!"
How to shop, cook and eat in a warming world. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/30/dining/climate-change-food-eating-habits.html
Episode 25.5: This short episode gives you an update on how the podcast is going, and what I am trying to do :)
If you have any suggestions for topics, guests or improvements, then please email dzetland@gmail.com
This episode's motto: "There's no success like team success."
Episode 25: Rik Rutten graduated from LUC in the summer of 2015 with a BA in International Development and a minor in World Politics. After LUC, he spent a year doing internships and trying his first swings at freelance journalism, before completing a two-years master's at Uppsala University's Department of Peace and Conflict Studies. Now, at 25, Rik works in The Hague as a political editor at NRC, a Dutch daily newspaper. Among other things, he composes the paper's daily political newsletter, De Haagse Stemming (https://www.nrc.nl/dehaagsestemming/), covering the daily beat in The Hague.
This episode's motto: "Take the path that works for you, no matter what forest you end up in."
__Links of interest__ Michael Lewis, The Case Against Abroad: https://newrepublic.com/article/77526/the-case-against-abroad
Rik's first paid story (in Dutch), which directly came out of his LUC thesis: https://decorrespondent.nl/3749/deze-stad-laat-zien-oorlog-is-vermijdbaar/520541009538-e4bc4ae9
Rik's first English paid story: https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/20824/why-once-welcoming-countries-in-scandinavia-closed-their-borders-to-refugees
Episode 24: Liza L. holds a BSc in Sustainability (now Earth, Energy, and Sustainability) from Leiden University College in The Hague (2015), and an LL.M. in Global Environmental and Climate Change Law from the University of Edinburgh.
During LUC she was actively involved in the student community, and is currently the president of Evolucio - LUC's alumni association (http://www.evolucio.nl/). During and after studies she has undertaken three traineeships: one at an academic institute in The Hague, one at the European Commission, and a third at a consultancy firm. After all the studying and working in the field of climate change (https://www.aguanomics.com/2015/11/carbon-market-mechanisms-matter-for.html), she is about the begin a job at a Ministry of Environment in one of EU's Member States.
This episode's motto: "Sometimes you wander into opportunity."
"15 things I wish I'd known as a first year" on p 14 of this PAX: https://issuu.com/paxmagazineluc/docs/pax_issue_4
Project Drawdown (the most comprehensive plan ever proposed to reverse global warming): https://www.drawdown.org/
Weapons of Math Destruction: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math-destruction
Related reviews: http://www.aguanomics.com/2017/02/weapons-of-math-destruction-review.html
https://www.aguanomics.com/2018/03/review-future-crimes.html
Episode 23: Jacob van de Beeten holds a BA from Leiden University College (Class of 2016, International Justice) and a LLB From Leiden University. He obtained his LLM at the London School of Economics where he will start with his PhD in September 2019. Jacob is especialy interested in the relation between law and politics in the European Union.
This episode's motto: "Law comes in many flavors, some that mix better than others."
Links of interest: David Hayes (2016): "When BS Is a Virtue" https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2014/09/08/when-bs-is-a-virtue/
David Hayes (2015) "Against critical thinking pedagogy" https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1474022215592248
Episode 22: Fabian Kemps Verhage spent part of his youth on an organic farm in Nicaragua, where his mother was a development worker. Down on the farm, Fabian felt the manual labor finally put his mind to rest and allowed him to think things through.
Fabian graduated from LUC in 2013 (BSc Sustainability). After some adventures, he took a master degree in Climate Studies at the University of Wageningen and started working at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). However, he quickly got dissatisfied with the large distance between his office in The Netherlands and the farmers he worked for. The feeling persisted at his next post at the National ThinkTank, where he wanted to contribute to the sustainability of agriculture. Hence, he decided to rent 2.5 hectares and start farming himself.
Without the expertise to grow vegetables he decided to grow wheat and soy. And due to limited access to machines, he challenged himself to conduct most of the work by hand. While still waiting for his first harvest, the experience so far has strengthened his idea that farming is possible with manual (so fossil free) labor and green manure (so fully vegan) fertilizers. While still relying on a side job for a stable income, he hopes to show that farming by hand is not only an answer to the dependency of agriculture to fossil fuels, but also for the thousands of people who want to work more with their hands.
This episode's motto: "The fastest way to get somewhere is to start in the general direction."
Episode 21: Joseph Agoada (https://twitter.com/joeagoada) has spent the past twelve years on international impact programs and partnerships around the world. He founded a nonprofit in 2006, held positions Massachusetts Institute of Technology D-Lab (2008 – 2009) and then UNICEF HQ (2010 – 2014). For the last five years he has held the role the Director of Communications at InSTEDD, a silicon valley based nonprofit delivering open source technology for social impact. Joseph is passionate about community driven innovation and is an active member of the social intrapreneurship networks. He is a published author on Forbes.com, Virgin.com and the Huffington Post and currently hosts the Lets Break Good Podcast (https://soundcloud.com/letsbreakgood)
This episode's motto: Better an innovative break than an inadequate increment.
Here's the episode with Joe's brother Keith: https://soundcloud.com/jivetalking/07-keith-agoda-connects-farmers
Episode 20: Monica Sanchez-Groeneweg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/monica-sanchez-groeneweg/) was born in Amsterdam to a Spanish father and Dutch mother. She attended the European School Bergen her entire life to preserve her language skills. She decided to attend LUC for its multicultural environment and multidisciplinary approach. After graduating in 2016 with BSc in International Development (GED) & minor in Psychology, she went on to study Political Sciences: Global Environmental Governance at the VU Amsterdam. As you will hear in the podcast she got sidetracked during these studies to pursue several work opportunities. While she doesn't recommend this order of work and studies, she learned a lot on the way. She hopes to graduate by the end of June and go traveling.
This episode's motto: "What doesn't kill you helps with your masters."
Episode 19: Molly Quell (https://twitter.com/MollyQuell) is an American journalist, living in the Netherlands. She covers the European Courts for Courthouse News Service and is a contributing editor at Dutch News (https://www.dutchnews.nl), where she co-hosts their weekly news podcast (https://soundcloud.com/dutchnewsnl). She has occasionally written for other publications, including Undark, Huffington Post and Think Progress. When she's not working, which is rare, she reads, bakes or hangs out with her dog Troubador (https://www.instagram.com/troubadourmagma), a literal tornado but in dog form.
This episode's motto: "You know you're staying when you renovate the house."
Episode 18: Scott Moore (https://scholar.harvard.edu/scott_moore) is a political scientist whose work focuses on water politics and policy, especially in China and South Asia. Scott is currently a Senior Fellow at the Penn Water Center as well as Director of China Programs in the Office of the Provost at the University of Pennsylvania. Until 2018, Scott was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist with the World Bank Water Global Practice, where he co-led a study of China’s water sector with the Development Research Center of the State Council and was a co-author of two flagship reports, High and Dry: Climate Change, Water, and the Economy, and Uncharted Waters: the New Economics of Water Scarcity and Variability. Previously, Scott served as Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer for China at the U.S. Department of State, where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement on climate change, and prior to that was Giorgio Ruffolo Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University. He has published widely on the full range of global water issues in leading publications including Nature, Foreign Affairs, and The New York Times. He is also the author of Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/subnational-hydropolitics-9780190864101), published in 2018 by Oxford University Press. Scott holds a doctorate in Politics and a master’s degree in Environmental Change and Management from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton.
This episode's motto: "Beijing will always have water."
China’s Belt and Road and the World’s Water Resource: https://reconnectingasia.csis.org/analysis/entries/blue-belt-and-road/
David's review of Oriental Despotism: http://www.aguanomics.com/2016/09/oriental-despotism-review.html
Episode 17: Dr. Alireza Bazargan (http://www.environ.ir) was born in Tehran in 1985, and moved to Canada with his family as a toddler. After spending his childhood and teenage years in North America, he moved back to Iran to study in the Chemical Engineering program of Sharif University of Technology, the most reputable technical university in the country. Dr. Bazargan is a faculty member at the Graduate Faculty of the Environment, University of Tehran, one of the Middle East’s oldest and most prestigious universities. In addition, he is a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering at K.N. Toosi University of Technology. His research and teaching interests cover areas of environmental and energy engineering in general.
This show's motto: "It's hard to be sustainable when you're hungry."
Don't forget that Living with Water Scarcity is available in Farsi, free to download here: http://www.kysq.org/lwws/
After our talk, Alireza sent a clarification and some links of interest:
"I did some additional research about where the word alcohol comes from, and although it is a middle eastern word, it seems that it may have come from al-kuhl rather than al-kohool as I mentioned. Here's a link that explains my confusion: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:alcohol
Here are some supporting links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27état
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/20/archives/iranians-who-seized-us-embassy-release-4-women-and-6-black-men.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALqOOoztZqw
https://www.sustainabilitymatters.net.au/content/water/article/environmental-protection-a-luxury-most-nations-cannot-afford-1270164355
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0928765513000894
https://voxeu.org/article/concern-environment-luxury-good-evidence-google-searches
https://www.newsweek.com/did-trump-break-law-us-leaves-iran-deal-violates-world-order-risks-war-916173
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/08/donald-trump-sanctions-iran-international-law
http://en.mfa.ir/index.aspx?fkeyid=&siteid=3&pageid=36409&newsview=514551
Episode 16: Martin Fox is a first year Masters degree student in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science at Lund University. Martin graduated from LUC in July 2018 where he majored in Earth, Energy and Sustainability. He is very passionate about global sustainability issues such as climate change, urban sustainability and fisheries. (His capstone at LUC was about the overexploitation of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna). Professionally, Martin aspires to play a key role in decision making processes, bridging the gap between policy makers and scientists in order to enhance sustainability transitions around the world.
This episode's motto: "It turns out that group work is important."
Episode 15: Dr. Martin Keulertz works as Assistant Professor in the Food Security Programme at the American University of Beirut. He teaches MSc students on food security issues facing the MENA region and the world. His research interests centre around strategies for food and water security in the MENA region and how a rapidly growing region can address its future food requirements through sustainable and adapted domestic production, food technology innovation as well as agricultural trade.
Movie: "We made every living thing from water"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reJEh0jM5-8
This episode's motto: "Decentralize energy to undermine corruption."
Episode 14: Joanna Ruiter is 26 year old, half Scottish half Dutch, but was raised in Germany. After a year of studying International Business she worked in Germany primarily in the hospitality sector, whilst being active in the social entrepreneurship field. She then moved to the Netherlands for further studies. She has a B.Sc. In Earth, Energy, and Sustainability from Leiden University College in The Hague. She has completed the International Space University's Space Studies Program and started working in the Dutch space sector afterwards. Currently she is an advisor for satellite applications at the Netherlands Space Office where she works on the Geodata for Agriculture and Water (G4AW) project.
This episode's motto: "The path to space is not always direct."
Episode 13: Enya is 23 years old from Montreal, currently living in The Hague. At LUC, Enya majored in Governance, Economics & Development and graduated in July 2017. Finding her spark in the global health courses, she began sculpting her GED courses on healthcare governance and policy-making - eventually writing her Capstone on the organisational sustainability of a digital health project in Ghana.
During the last year of LUC, Enya met her now co-founders via Skype. They had began working on YAPILI (https://yapili.com), which was to be a tele-health platform in Africa. Following graduation Enya travelled alone to Kenya and Botswana to visit local organisations, health facilities and communities to launch the product. Two years later, Enya is the CEO of YAPILI which has grown to become an award-winning social enterprise providing reliable and confidential health advice to African users in 8 countries via the YAPILI online solution.
Enya is also currently pursuing a Masters in Healthcare Policy, Innovation & Management at Maastricht University, where she can apply prior knowledge learned at LUC and experiences gained working in the healthcare sector.
More on Yapili: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2018/05/enya-seguin-healthcare-is-very-conservative Instagram: @yapili_health Twitter: @yapili_health
This episode's motto: "Better to innovate in Africa than suffocate under paperwork in wealthier countries."
Episode 12: David Rankin is Executive Director at the Great Lakes Protection Fund (http://glpf.org), the nation’s first ecosystem endowment. He is responsible for investing the Fund’s endowment; planning and resource management; recruiting, developing and retaining top talent; and directing all of these resources to advance the Fund’s mission to find new ways to protect and restore the health of the Great Lakes ecosystem. Before joining the Fund, David held senior positions with The Nature Conservancy, and federal and state environmental protection agencies. He has negotiated international conservation agreements, testified as an expert witness in environmental litigation, raised funds, financed projects, led people far more skilled than he, had some important successes and made (at least) his share of mistakes. He has enjoyed nearly all of it. His degree in environmental science was earned at Miami University. The University of Chicago awarded his Master of Business Administration with High Honors. David was born in Maryland and now lives with his wife and daughter in Wilmette, Illinois. He is an avid cook, cyclist, sea kayaker and backpacker. His volunteer work includes leadership and advisory positions with impact investors, elected officials, philanthropies, and not-for-profits, and working with local schools and community groups.
__Links of interest__ Review: How Rivers Made America: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=598 Lake Erie's personhood: https://one-handed-economist.com/?p=675
This episode's motto: "Innovation can come from anywhere and go anywhere."
Episode 11: Kristinn Mason has over 20 years’ professional experience as a micro-economist, with wide-ranging and deep exposure to utility regulation across energy, rail, water and wastewater sectors. He has direct experience of working for utility regulators both in the UK and Abu Dhabi, where he has covered many strategic regulatory policy issues. These have included market structure and reforms, as well as designing and setting intra-sector charges and end-customer tariffs. He has also experienced the setting and lifting price controls, developing regulatory incentives and opening markets to competition. Currently, Kristinn is working for a UK water company where he is heavily involved with the current regulatory price review.
This episode's motto: "Take off clothes when you go out, put on clothes when you come in."
Episode 10: Brian Czech is the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE). Czech served as a conservation biologist in the headquarters of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from 1999-2017 and as a visiting professor of natural resources economics with Virginia Tech through most of that period. He is the author of three books: Supply Shock, Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train, and The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy. He has published over 50 academic journal articles in more than 20 peer-reviewed journals. Czech is a frequent speaker, commentator, and a regular contributor to the Steady State Herald, CASSE’s blog. He has a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, an M.S. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona.
CASSE invites readers worldwide to sign the steady-state petition at www.steadystate.org.
For a short video on the steady state economy, see “Good Growing Gone Bad” at https://steadystate.org/discover/video-audio-and-presentations/.
Want more details on the trophic theory of money? Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyUKjcEp1Jc
This episode's motto: "Everyone needs to do their part!"
Episode 9: Julianne is a 22-year-old Dutch-American, from Detroit and currently based in Boston. At Leiden University College, Julianne majored in International Justice with a focus on human rights. Since graduating, she has been taking the opportunity to explore different kinds of career paths, and is now doing marketing for Abine, Inc. Abine (www.abine.com) is a startup that sells tools allowing individuals to take control of their online privacy.
This episode's motto: "Work to learn the skills for your next job."
Episode 8: Zach Malik (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachariasmalik/) is a 23-year-old British-Pakistani. While his home-based is London, he has had the privilege to live in England, Pakistan, Libya, Egypt, Australia, Netherlands, Switzerland, and France.
Zach graduated from LUC in Feb 2016 with a BSc in Policy Science (now GED) and minor in Sustainability (now EES). He is currently completing his master's in Management and Corporate Sustainability at Cranfield University. Prior to starting his master's, Zach has worked with Arcadis, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, UN Environment, Climate-KIC, and Worldfavor.
Beyond building a career, Zach is developing a charity called G-Corps - a global initiative to unite, up-skill, and unleash the power of young people to help them become changemakers. Zach also acts as a Young Ambassador for Oxfam GB and Unicef UK, representing both organsations at the local and global level.
This episode's motto: "You can get more done if you work multiple jobs."
Episode 7: In this interview with Keith Agoada (co-founder and CEO of Producers Market www.producersmarket.com), we discuss the supply chain connecting consumers to farmers around the world, and how their platform will make it easier for farmers, stores and consumers to get better food from quality vendors.
This episode's motto: "Get the lemons you want, not the bananas you don't."
Here's their promo video: https://youtu.be/CGfzg6BI8pY
Episode 6: Michelle is a research engineer at the Alaska Center for Energy and Power (ACEP ~ http://acep.uaf.edu) working on projects ranging from bringing more rooftop solar to Anchorage (the big city) to helping residents in the Bering Straits Region find solutions to the high cost of energy (https://avec.org/). After completing a degree in Astronomy from Caltech, and then dropping out of a PhD program in Geophysics at UC Berkeley, she has worked as an engineering geologist, an organic gardening coordinator, in energy efficiency outreach, and as a park ranger in Katmai (among other things)! She returned to school and graduated in 2018 with a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from UAA, writing a finite-element model of heat transfer in arctic soils for her thesis. As eclectic as this list might seem, all of it comes together in solving problems of finding sustainable energy sources in the Arctic, with the challenges of unstable permafrost for infrastructure foundations, finding the energy to grow food and provide fresh water, and other linkages between energy and the environment.
Michelle grew up in Alaska, and is happy to be raising her son here as well. They like to take the dog hiking, camping, ice skating and skiing, but also enjoy a lot of cozy indoor time as well. She is thrilled to be doing work that she hopes will continue to make Alaska a great place to live for her family and all Alaskans.
This episode's motto: "Working hard in hard-to-work places!"
Episode 5: Walter E. Block (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Block) is Harold E. Wirth Endowed Chair and Professor of Economics at Loyola University in New Orleans.
Here's my review of Walter's book: http://www.aguanomics.com/2017/08/review-water-capitalism.html
Walter added a comment:
"You inquired as to the difference between suing for pollution and a govt prohibition of pollution. I don’t think I did very well in answering. Let me try again.
Option A: The govt passed a law against fraud. Yet, I can still sue you for fraud if you engage in it.
Option B: The govt also passed a law against pollution. Yet, I can’t still sue you for trespass of smoke particles onto my lawn or lungs if you engage in it. In addition, the govt law has got so much else in it not analogous to its law against fraud: CAFÉ standards, carbon taxes, etc. In sharp contrast there’s no tax on fraud."
To this I clarified (and he agreed): "I think you’re clarification needs to include the (obvious) factor: the government often declares its regulation to have a monopoly, thus prohibiting private lawsuits, etc."
Episode 4: Marina Della Giusta(mardelgiu.com)is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Reading.
In this interview, we discuss #metoo in economics, teaching millennials, and the different perspectives of gender and age.
For more on women in economics, see the symposium here: https://www.aeaweb.org/issues/538
Episode 3: Monja Esterhuizen (http://www.linkedin.com/in/monja-esterhuizen-4300452a) and I spoke on 2019.01.22 about the governance structure of water resources and infrastructure management in South Africa and different ways to reduce water scarcity challenges. We focussed on the problem of "non-revenue water" that is "produced" but physically or financially "lost." I am doing some research on whether NRW levels may correlate with good/bad governance.
Links and documents we discuss: (1) South Africa's Dept. of Water & Sanitation: http://www.dwaf.gov.za/default.aspx
(2) National Water & Sanitation Master Plan. See Volume 1 (the summary document)for information on projects, infrastructure, costing, priorities, etc.: http://www.dwaf.gov.za/National%20Water%20and%20Sanitation%20Master%20Plan/DocumentsReports.aspx
(3) No Drop Guidelines: https://www.kysq.org/docs/2018.01.22_NoDrop_final.pdf
(4) NRW report for the Ilembe municipality in South Africa* https://www.kysq.org/docs/2018.01.22_ILEMBE_WB_June_2018.pdf
(5) The Kingfisher program for decentralised water management: http://www.cmra.org.za/sites/default/files/LGCP-SA-KingFisher-booklet.pdf
(6) Some relevant blog posts: http://www.aguanomics.com/2018/02/what-went-wrong-in-capetown.html http://www.aguanomics.com/2011/07/miya-waters-quest-to-plug-leaks.html http://www.aguanomics.com/2012/02/we-can-no-longer-waste-water-like.html https://www.aguanomics.com/2013/10/wheres-your-water-and-your-money.html http://www.aguanomics.com/2017/06/californias-shameful-lack-of.html
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- Monja says: "The municipality has a mixed development, some urban developed towns (mostly served by surface water schemes, most receive water via in-house piped water and sanitation via waterborne sewer), but also some deep rural areas (some served by surface water schemes, others by borehole, often connections via communal stand pipes).
The volumes translate to +- 58Ml/d input, of which 60% is non-revenue water. The population of the district municipality is +- 600 000 persons.
Note however that there are just over 30 water supply scheme areas, not all are accurately metered on the bulk provision. The communal standpipes are not metered. Communal standpipes are placed such that it should be within 200m walking distance from a household. Urban areas are generally metered, but meters are not all read monthly."
Episode 2: Delton and I discuss his ideas for 4C ("Complementary Currencies for Climate Change") as a means of promoting a sustainable carbon economy.
You can learn more about Delton and his ideas here:
Interview: https://youtu.be/Hd4PET0Z2f8
The Silver Gun Hypothesis: New Model for a Sustainable Carbon Economy: https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/silver-gun-hypothesis/
Hypothesis for a Risk Cost of Carbon: Revising the Externalities and Ethics of Climate Change: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-03152-7_8
After our talk, Delton sent some additional thoughts:
"Transaction Costs: In our interview, you mentioned a few times that transaction costs for 4C would be high. This could be confusing or misleading, because the costs of trading 4C are very low (i.e. the transactions costs are similar to trading currencies).
[DZ: Economists group all costs of finding, trading and receiving "goods" under transaction costs. Delton separates these... as seen below.]
Administration Costs: The costs you refer to are the costs of administering the assessments of the climate mitigation actions (measurement, reporting and verification of data and policing). These costs are lumped with the actual cost of doing the mitigation work. Both costs are accounted for in the Risk Cost of Carbon (RCC). Separating administrative costs from mitigation costs is only a matter of interpretation — and ultimately we need to combine these costs as one single cost.
Financial Intermediaries: If we compare the Global Carbon Reward (and the 4C payments) to other sources of finance, there is much less opportunity for financial intermediaries to skim profits from 4C (e.g. lawyers and fund managers etc.) because there is no 4C held in reserve accounts. In other words, the 4C is created at the time that it is issued to the actors who do the mitigation work. Technically speaking, there are no financial intermediaries in this system.
Economic Growth Problem: Dirty Growth? Good Inefficiencies? The costs of mitigation and administration will be significant (USD $1-3 trillion per year) but this cost is not a bad cost. In other words, it is not fair to describe it as "bad inefficiency", because these costs are required for climate safety.
Moreover, the more efficient is the economy, the more growth there will be, and economic growth is currently very highly correlated to primary energy demand and carbon emissions. Therefore, if more resources (and money) is spent on climate mitigation (and administration) this will slow other types of economic activity that are producing carbon emissions — and this is the desired outcome. For this reason the inefficiencies of the policy are called "good inefficiencies". This distinction is very important, because it changes the narrative on climate change economics. Please read the book chapter [third link above] for more information."
Episode 1: I discuss water privatization with three students from the Herberger Young Scholars Academy at ASU West in Glendale, Arizona.
This brief introduction explains what the podcast is about, why I am doing it, and who I hope to talk to.