Wood emits more CO2 per kilowatt-hour than coal, and forest regrowth takes decades to a century or more – time we do not have to cut emissions enough to avoid the worst harms from climate change.
Incentivizing early retirement of gas-powered vehicles with a cash incentive can accelerate U.S. vehicle fleet electrification and achieve greater emissions reduction at a reasonable cost.
"I’m currently obsessed with understanding how externality interdependencies shape innovation incentives."
"I’m at home with both the firmer, quantitative, computational side and the fuzzier, qualitative, psychological side."
"Imposter thoughts may encourage others to deem you as more interpersonally effective at work — a better collaborator, a better coworker."
Professor Stuart Madnick, co-founder of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) is studying more than 170 new cybersecurity regulations that affect IT.
"In the longer run, it's important to think about the political base of support for U.S. climate action."
"The stakes are high. There's a lot of money in this space, a lot of financial advisors, and a lot of problems with having bad financial advice."
"From a practical perspective it's going to be very hard to rein in some of this retail trading in a meaningful way."
"Finding suitable peers for financial analysis is a vexing task that requires careful consideration of firms' underlying economics ... "
