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Nobel Prize in Economics winner Lars Peter Hansen on imperfect models
Dec 10, 2013
Nobel Prize in Economics winner Lars Peter Hansen discusses his work.
Nelson Mandela's legacy is economic, too
Dec 5, 2013
One legacy of Mandela's fight against apartheid is activism in the U.S. against inequities in the global economy.
Natgas, renewables and the future economy
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Scott Tong
Jul 10, 2013
Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations discusses two unfolding energy revolutions: the natural gas boom and the rise of renewables.
Obama on climate change: It's the economy, stupid
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Scott Tong
Jun 25, 2013
The president spent much of his speech on climate change focused on the economy.
In regulating carbon pollution, the price put on it matters
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Scott Tong
Jun 24, 2013
Governments and businesses estimate a Social Cost of Carbon, the cost of damage caused by a ton of carbon emissions.
Unilever CEO: For sustainable business, go against 'mindless consumption'
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Kai Ryssdal
Jun 11, 2013
Many companies focus on short-term results. The CEO of consumer-products giant Unilever, Paul Polman, says long-term strategic planning builds better businesses.
The environment comes out ahead from Xi-Obama summit
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Rob Schmitz
Jun 10, 2013
President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping have wrapped up their California summit. The big breakthrough of the summit wasn’t on cybersecurity or trade, but on climate change.
This burger brought to you by a test tube
May 21, 2013
Dutch scientists will shortly unveil a burger that uses meat grown at great expense in a laboratory. Growing meat is more efficient in the long-term, but people may not take to it.
The effect of colleges divesting from fossil fuels
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Amy Scott
May 17, 2013
Fossil fuels, the new apartheid? University students want their schools to divest. One college calculates the cost.
What fracking means for manufacturing and the environment: BS detector
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Scott Tong
Mar 11, 2013
We look at energy and environment myths and misperceptions we're uncovering on the Petro-state beat.
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Econ Crash Course, Week 1: The hockey stick
Welcome to the first week of our “Econ 101” crash course. Together, we’ll read one chapter each week from Core Econ’s “E…