Recent Publications and Working
Papers
Thomas Gale Moore
Climate of
Fear: Why We Shouldn't Worry about Global Warming
Available at bookstores and from the Cato Institute in Washington DC.
Global
Warming Papers
"Why Global Warming would be Good for You"
Public Interest
Winter 1995.
"Global Warming: A Boon to Humans and Other Animals"Essays in Public PolicyHoover Institution 1995. This is an
exanded version of "Why Global Warming would be Good for You" with
footnotes.
"Testimony before the House Committee on Science",
November 1995 on Global Warming.
"Happiness is a Warm Planet" Op-ed in The Wall Street Journal October 7, 1997.
"A Dangerous Treaty" Op-ed in The Asian Wall Street
Journal December
10, 1997.
"Testimony before the House Subcommittee on National
Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs" on The Economics of the Kyoto
Protocol on April
23, 1998.
"Health and Amenity Effects of Global Warming, " Published in Economic Inquiry, July 1998, 471-88.
"Basking in the Winter Warmth: Why Higher Temperatures are
Better" Published in State of the
Climate Report 1999: Essays on Global Climate Change April 1999, New hope Environmental
Services.
"Kyoto's Real Objective" Op-ed on Failure of Kyoto talks in
the Hague, November 2000.
In
PDF Format: It is the best of Climate; it will be the Worst of
Climates? Prepared for the conference on Global Climate Change at
Rice University, September 6 to 8, 2000.
In
PDF Format: In Sickness or in Health: The Kyoto Protocol versus
Global Warming Essays in Public Policy Hoover Institution, No. 104, 2000. NEW August 25, 2000.
Thomas Moore wrote a monthly column the World Climate Report
from June 1996 to August 1998 and
quarterly thereafter
The
last essay was July 26, 1999 WCR.
These
essays, which deal with health and economics of Climate Change, can be found at
Climate Essays
For other material on Global Warming see Competitive Enterprise
Institute
Evolutionary Psychology
A
Working Paper dealing with the relationship of evolutionary psychology to
economics entitled:
A Reformulation of Utility Theory or It All Comes from
Sex.
An Abstract is available.
Placebos,
Faith, and Morals: Or why Religion
A paper on why people are
religious
Abstract
The TeDeum was sung in both
camps
Religion
is so powerful and so ubiquitous that humans probably have a genetic need for a
faith. Faith is also involved in the very powerful effect of placebos, which
benefit between 35 to 75 percent of the patients taking dummy pills. Religious
people live longer than those without a faith, indicating that religious belief
may act much like a placebo. An explanation for the origins of religion lies in
selective pressure for larger social groups. Warfare between proto-human tribes
appears to have generated evolutionary pressure for larger groups; other things
being the same, the larger tribes conquered the smaller. Larger groups of
humans, however, experience difficulties in maintaining solidarity and
preventing free riders. Religion and its rites strengthened group cohesion,
making free riding more expensive and harder to conceal. In other words, a
religious urge evolved to enhance warfare.
Other Writings
Card Clubs
and Crime In CaliforniaThis is a study of the relationship of
crime to card clubs, done in 1997 under a grant from Bay 101, a San Jose Card
Club.
On Progress
Book on the Sustainability and
Necessity of Progress
All
Sections of this book are in Adobe Acrobat Format (PDF)
Chapter1 The Meaning of Progress
Chapter2 Has There Been Progress? The Historical
Record >
Chapter3 Has There
Been Progress? The Modern World
Chapter5 Liberty,
Progress, and Democracy
Chapter6 Freedom and
Economic Growth
Chapter7 Origins of
Growth
Chapter8 Impediments
to Growth Regulation and Government Ownership
Chapter 9 Threats to Progress
Chapter 10 Progress
for the Universe
Transportation and
Regulation Papers
Clearing the Track: The Remaining Transportation
Regulations Regulation Vol 18(2) 1995
ICC Obituary Regulation Vol 18(1) 1995
Issues in Regulatory Policy Prepared for the
Conference on Economic Reform in Korea, January 15 & 16 1997, Hoover
Institution.
Moving Ahead An essay on transportation
regulation and deregulation over the last thirty years, published in Regulation, Vol. 25, No. 2,
Summer 2002.
How to Reduce Terrorism published in the
San Jose Mercury News, June 11, 2002.
A Humbler Foreign Policy February 13, 2003
Learning from History, appreared on
antiwar.com as Today's Spotlight, June 25, 2003.
The Iraq War: is the United States Better Off?appeared
on antiwar.com on March 11, 2004
Waist Deep in the Big Muddy, The Big Fool Says
to Push On appeared on antiwar.com on May 4, 2004
The Charge of the Coalition Forces
appeared on antiwar.com on May 21, 2004
The Curse of Oil appeared on antiwar.com June 30,
2004
Price, Patriotism, and Propoganda appeared on
antiwar.com on June 9, 2004
Israel's Quagmire appeared in Antiwar.com
August 5, 2006
The Wisdom of Cutting and Running appeared in
Antiwar.com August 8, 2006
Leaving Iraq is not Enough appeared on
Antiwar.com August 30, 2006
What is Victory? appeared on antiwar.com September 7,
2006
Understanding Why Iraq I a Disaster appeared on
antiwar.com September 12, 2006
My President, Right or Wrong appeared on antiwar.com
September 30, 2006
October Surprise? appeared on antiwar.com October 5,
2006
Bush 0-for-3 with "Axis of Evil" appeared
on antiwar.com October 13, 2006
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