An endowment to provide free tuition to most Johns Hopkins medical students and all costs for many, presumably in perpetuity. In the WSJ here.
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The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India
AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW (FORTHCOMING)
Abstract
Scientific evidence has documented that we are undergoing a mass extinction of species, caused by human activity. However, allocating conservation resources is difficult due to scarce evidence on damages from losing individual species. This paper studies the collapse of vultures in India, triggered by the expiry of a patent on a painkiller. Our results suggest the functional extinction of vultures—efficient scavengers who removed carcasses from the environment—increased human mortality by over 4% because of a large negative shock to sanitation. We quantify damages at $69.4 billion per year. These results suggest high returns to conserving keystone species such as vultures.
As of 10:20PM on 7/2, from https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/7057/Who-will-win-the-2024-Democratic-presidential-nomination. Interestingly this is not affecting the odds of a Trump win (~60%).
Have Jamie Moffitt and Brian Fox found the money to pay the faculty like they pay JH administrators? Will the union demand $130K research and alcohol budgets for faculty too? How late will the administration team be this time? Show up and find out. From the faculty union: BargainingJoin us…
That would of course be Oregon State, for Assistant and Associate Profs. UO’s Fulls are still slightly ahead. The last time I looked, about 10 years ago, UO salaries were about 5% above OSU’s. Obviously the mix of disciplines is different, but I’d have expected UO’s shift away from liberal…
Faculty turnout was about 60 on zoom and another 60 in the room, plus some overflow in the hall. Pretty good, considering we’re a long way from ramping up the pressure. The Admin team showed up 15 minutes late then drug a 15-minute break out for 35 minutes. I’d expected…
He wouldn’t send me his contract but eventually Kevin Reed’s Public Records Office complied with the law and provided it: 2024-PRR-471 … …
To the Law Faculty, the UO President, and the General Counsel, posted by request of Professor Raban: On May 23, UO President Karl Scholz announced that the university has reached a mutually beneficial agreement with UO Palestine—a coalition of four student organizations that demonstrated on campus for almost a month. The agreement includes, among…
Pres Karl Scholz contract 2023
And if the President job doesn’t work out, he’s got a fall-back guarantee of a sweet job as an Econ Professor – with no responsibilities for the first year: