Scholar

Gernot Wagner

Gernot Wagner is an Austro-American climate economist at Columbia Business School. He holds an AB and a PhD in political… more

Gernot Wagner
H-index: 32
Economics 35%
Environmental science 29%
emmbadger.bsky.social
If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
gwagner.com
Headline of today's @financialtimes.com Moral Money newsletter nails the lesson from the Econ Nobels:

"Why green growth needs more destruction"

Yup.
gwagner.com
Good to see this Big Battery Big Read in today's @financialtimes.com, with amazing interactive graphics to boot

ig.ft.com/mega-batteri...
gwagner.com
Meanwhile, out in the real world:

"Hiring is at its lowest level since 2009"¹

¹ @cnbc.com, via @unusualwhales.bsky.social
davidrvetter.bsky.social
The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.
gwagner.com
Restrict the cheapest energy sources, increase energy prices.

The math couldn't be clearer.
NYT editorial: The Trump Bump on Your Energy Bills Rapidly declining solar & battery prices Texas surpassing California on total utility-scale solar deployment
gwagner.com
The striking bit about "car guys":

Yeah, there's the occasional meet up, where standing in line is the point. But in general, the fewer cars, the more enjoyable the experience.

For bicycles, it's the opposite: the more of them on any given street, the more enjoyable the experience.
brenttoderian.bsky.social
You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.
atrupar.com
STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back
thomaszimmer.bsky.social
Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:
We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly
Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout “small government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy
steady.page

by Gernot WagnerReposted by Peter Thorne

gwagner.com
Honey, I invested $100 billion in AI, and all I got was 1 + 2 + 3 = 15
ZackKorman post: Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen.
filipecampante.bsky.social
Every single paragraph in this article is shocking. I had been quite pessimistic all along, but could not have imagined the speed and depth of the collapse.

by Gernot WagnerReposted by Gernot Wagner

gwagner.com
Live from the Hellscape that is DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED INNER-CITY America, on the New York City SUBWAY no less.

linktr.ee/jembleu
longtimehistory.bsky.social
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas
davidcorn.bsky.social
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
gwagner.com
Papers, scones, guitar, dog. Saturday.
Dining table with papers
itaisher.bsky.social
An excellent response by MIT’s President Sally Kornbluf rejecting the Trump compact.

Other universities should do the same.

by Gernot WagnerReposted by Will Lowe

gwagner.com
That's the key, yes:

Brain drain = missing brain gain

Won't make for splashy headlines, but let's just say I'm writing a lot of recommendation letters in A4 instead of Letter-sized format these days.
thijsheus.bsky.social
You won't notice those, is my guess. Those are the international postdocs/PhDs who now choose to go back to Europe/China/... instead of taking positions at the flaghsips.
Much of the US brain drain is going to be a lack of brain gain.

by Thijs HeusReposted by Gernot Wagner

thijsheus.bsky.social
You won't notice those, is my guess. Those are the international postdocs/PhDs who now choose to go back to Europe/China/... instead of taking positions at the flaghsips.
Much of the US brain drain is going to be a lack of brain gain.
gwagner.com
You've got to wait until after Monday's announcement to make the move.

by Gernot WagnerReposted by Gernot Wagner

gwagner.com
As far as high-profile academics moving out of Trump's America goes, it doesn't get more high-profile than this.

🇺🇸 → 🇨🇭
econ.uzh.ch
We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.
econ.uzh.ch
We are thrilled to welcome Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee as the new Lemann Foundation Professors to our department, beginning in the summer of 2026.

by Daniel HuppmannReposted by Gernot Wagner

danielhuppmann.bsky.social
“Die 🇺🇸 sichern sich durch fossile Förderung Unabhängigkeit, 🇨🇳 dominiert mit Elektrifizierung & grüner Industrie”, warnen @gwagner.com & @monika-schnitzer.com

Für 🇪🇺 „droht doppelte Abhängigkeit von fossilen Importen aus dem Westen & grünen Technologien aus dem Osten.”
📰 gwagner.com/zeit-industr...
Screenshot des Artikels “Batterien statt Kraftwerke”, Die Zeit

References

Fields & subjects

Updated 1m