Economic Models

The economic benefits of conserving or restoring natural sites now “outweigh” the profit potential of using the same areas for farming or timber

Nature benefits people in diverse ways, but insight on the relative value of conserving or restoring versus using intensively is limited. Synthesizing data from 62 sites worldwide, this study finds benefits from conservation and restoration often outweighing private ones and that these rise with the social cost of carbon.

In this Chart of the Week, we analyze how companies with a high percentage of employees making a national living wage have performed over the trailing one year.

GreenBiz advances the opportunities at the intersection of business, technology and sustainability.

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari speaks with author Rutger Bregman, in a moderated conversation by Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor-in-chief of The Economist. This event ...

Plague, famine, heat no human can survive. This is not science fiction but what scientists, when they’re not being cautious, fear could be our future.

Small and big businesses alike have been hit by the degradation of the earth's natural resources

An economic, social and political history of the evolution of income and wealth

DISASTER CAPITALISM reveals the dark reality in the global aid and investment industry. It's a complex web of interests that spans the earth from powerful nations and multinational corporations to tribal and village leaders. The money that fuels this industry sometimes comes from well-intentioned individuals who donate money after natural disasters. It's also the tax dollars of ordinary citizens in Western countries that's dolled out in the name of foreign policy and diplomacy. Disaster Capitalism takes the viewer inside three countries, Haiti, Afghanistan and Papua New Guinea, to reveal ho...

"There's really no good argument for not doing this except that Wall Street is very nervous about this escalating into the first successful progressive tax reform in 50 years."

Summary of Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action By Elinor Ostrom Summary written by T.A. O'Lonergan, Conflict Research Consortium Citation: Governing the