Alistair Munro
@alistair-munro.bsky.social
Professor. Co-Chief-Editor Environmental & Resource Economics. Behavioural, Environmental, Experimental, Development. Mostly Ibaraki. バーコードなし. Sky Blue.
One of the women who died in the Aeon Mall explosion had apparently returned to her store to make sure money was in the safe. Her mother wants to know is the store chain asked her to do that. newsdig.tbs.co.jp/articles/-/2...
＜イオンモール爆発で亡くなった女性店員＞『金庫にお金を入れないといけないと言われたので戻る』 女性の母親「会社は真実を話してほしい」 2026年熊本地震 | TBS NEWS DIG (1ページ)
最大震度7を記録した熊本地震から4日目です。地震直後に爆発事故が起きた、熊本県嘉島町のイオンモール熊本では、これまでに7人の死亡が確認されています。そのうちの1人の遺族がRKK熊本放送の取材に応じ、苦しい… (1ページ)
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Commentary: What the new Imperial House Law reveals about the politics of historical memory.
Japan’s imperial succession and the invention of tradition
The historical record is clear: The absolute prohibition on female monarchs is not timeless. It is a surprisingly modern invention.
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#MethaneMonday | Europe's coal mines claim methane have plummeted. But this is because the measurements changed, not because production declined 📉 In Czechia, 2022 #CMM emissions dropped TENFOLD despite no matching fall in coal production. www.bloomberg.com/ne...
€84 per tonne is the current price of tCO2 on the EU's ETS, so €6,140/tCO2 comes in a little high.
CRC Rationality & Competition@rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 2w agoHow transport subsidies fall short as climate policy: Germany’s 9-Euro Ticket boosted rail travel by 35% but cost €6,140/tCO2 due to minimal car-to-rail substitution. Though an efficient cost-of-living transfer, the passenger surge triggered a 30% surge in train delays.
The European Commission slapped Chinese e-commerce giant AliExpress with a record €550 million fine today for failing to stop the sale of illegal and harmful products on its platform.
EU hits China’s Alibaba with €550M record fine over illegal products
“There were a lot of counterfeit products, unsafe toys and dangerous cosmetics” on AliExpress, Europe’s tech chief says.
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"A key finding is that all three countries [FR, DE, UK] display considerable unrealized scale-up potential. While many firms exhibit characteristics associated with future growth, the number that achieve large-scale expansion falls short of expectations." www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
Crazy to think the bad AQI day we're having today in NYC was just "normal" for summer in the 80s-90s. (Note that 2001-5 overlap across the two plots). Data via www.epa.gov/outdoor-air-...
📢 Out now in the 🏖️July 2026 issue🏖️ of #JAERE! 📢 "Irrigation and Climate Change: Long-Run Adaptation and Its Externalities" by Charles A. Taylor @ctaylor463.bsky.social. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/xHvTOXB 📈📉 #Econsky
Which also means the links in our catalogue of history theses www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/th... are also workjing again. #History
History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland | British History Online
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Digital Scholarship @ British Library@bldigischol.bsky.social · 4w agoEThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored
Fun to see one of the books I copyedited for @mitpress.bsky.social is getting some attention! Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science by Saul Justin Newman www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Something Is Very Wrong with Modern Longevity Science
A new book argues that many of the world’s oldest people aren’t so old after all.
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Shinkanfreude is the feeling of joy and self-satisfaction that arises from hearing about the endless delays, costly failures, and humiliations of another nation's flagship high-speed transport project.
Philip Brasor@philipbrasor.bsky.social · 4w agoSome background bit.ly/4wnvnqI
The Antarctic ozone hole was first reported in 1985, but ozone depletion could have been spotted as early as 1957, had modern satellite technology been available. Early ozone loss was primarily caused by carbon tetrachloride, an industrial solvent. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/589P50ZkHIC
"After 18 months, women using GLP-1 drugs who start off without a job enjoy employment rates 27 percentage points higher than otherwise similar non-users." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... by @soumayakeynes.ft.com
The economics of women’s weight
A new study suggests weight-loss drugs help women find work — and prompt men to leave their partners
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NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate? Take a look at the data: www.carbonbrief.org/...
So far, Chile's 2022 Platform Work Law has failed to regulate minimum pay and working hours. However, it has led to some substitution of informal self-employed by formal ones and to a moderate rise in social security coverage among those workers. Omar Bamieh et al. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
A worrying paper, but also intriguing in the sense that the influence of salience (first and last variables get greater weight) mimics some common human decision patterns.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences@pnas.org · last mo.Tempted to use an LLM to analyze tabular data? A study finds that making changes to data representation that are completely irrelevant to the underlying learning task—even simply renaming variables—can drastically alter LLM predictions. In PNAS Nexus: https://ow.ly/6z7R50Zfnib
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
Number of hours of negative electricity prices is dropping fast across Europe • Data highlight growing rollout of batteries, with Germany, Italy and UK leading the way • Europe’s installed battery capacity has risen by 33,000MWh in 2025, to about 90,000MWh www.economist.com/finance-and-...
🔌🪫An EV battery does not reach end-of-life when it leaves a vehicle. Most are retired at ~70–80% capacity, creating a clear second stage. Currently, most of 'second life' value is lost. The structure & governance will determine whether that can change 👉 go.wri.org/ev-second-li...
"By 1900 almost 14% of the local government electorate was female."
History of Parliament@histparl.bsky.social · 2mo agoAlthough the 1832 Reform Act marked an extension of the franchise in the UK, it also prevented women from voting in parliamentary elections. However, Dr Philip Salmon has explored how some women could vote long before they secured equal electoral rights with men.
Cornetto-Nash equilibrium #Econsky mainichi.jp/english/arti...
Japan watchdog raids 6 ice cream makers over suspected price-fixing - The Mainichi
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's antitrust watchdog searched six major ice cream makers Tuesday on suspicion of colluding to raise suggested retail prices, so
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What’s happened to income-group gaps in parental spending on children in the U.S.? For the last 45 years, they just. keep. getting. wider. In a new @socarxiv.bsky.social working paper, I present updated evidence on trends in spending on childcare, education, and extracurricular activities.
