Whether economic growth can be sustained while tackling climate change and staying within wider environmental limits is an area of... Read more

Whether economic growth can be sustained while tackling climate change and staying within wider environmental limits is an area of... Read more
Greater collaboration among countries and between governments and the private sector will be required if the world is to recover from the many shocks it is currently experiencing, according to a new report published today (25 May 2022) by the World Economic Forum. Read more
In this paper the authors show that if society is averse to income inequality, a government that is concerned with societal wellbeing would choose paths of economic growth that focus not only on the size of the overall ‘pie’ but also on how the pie is shared. Read more
Analysis of possible COVID-19 economic recovery packages shows the potential for strong alignment between the economy and the environment. Read more
Edited version (with references) of a talk given by Nicholas Stern for Jim Mirrlees’ Memorial Conference at Nuffield College, Oxford... Read more
Paper demonstrates the potential benefits of model confirmation exercises for policy applications, demonstrating that the economic growth model used by a prominent BC-IAM had little predictive power over the 20th century. Read more
We study how stochasticity in the evolution of agricultural productivity interacts with economic and population growth, and the associated demand... Read more
Developing countries should tackle the twin opportunities of climate resilience and economic resilience together argue Adriana Kocornik-Mina and Samuel Fankhauser. Read more