Environment
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New Research Shows Pollution Inequality in America is Even Worse Than Income Inequality
Sep 28, 2014
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Working Paper Series
Three Measures of Environmental Inequality
Apr 2014
Using data on industrial air pollution exposure in the United States, we compute three measures of environmental inequality: the Gini coefficient of exposure, the ratio of median exposure of minorities to that of non-Hispanic whites, and the ratio of median exposure of poor households to that of nonpoor households.
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Secular Stagnation? The Future Challenge for Economic Policy
Apr 11, 2014 | 03:15—05:00
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The Environment and Innovation: What Are The Real Costs?
Apr 11, 2014 | 12:45—02:15
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Human After All
PlenaryApr 10–12, 2014
The Institute for New Economic Thinking joined the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in holding its fifth Annual Conference from April 10 to April 12, 2014 in Toronto.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014
Voter and Consumer Behavior toward Energy Policy through the Lens of New Behavioral Paradigms: A Path to a Sustainable Economy?
This research project discovers how real people, not just the abstractions of traditional economic theory, respond to various possible policy interventions aimed to bring climate change under control and thus which policies will have the biggest impact.
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Years granted:
2012, 2013, 2014
State-Contingent Environmental Policy
This research project proposes linking emission fees to actual temperatures, thereby helping to break the policy stalemate and reach agreement on an effective policy.
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What is Economic Success?
Oct 11, 2013
“You are now leaving the world as you know it.”
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Conference paper
The Two Innovation Economies: Follower and Frontier
Sep 2013
Can China lead the way on innovation?
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The Good Life The Challenge of Progress in China Today
ConferenceSep 7–8, 2013
Every nation faces the challenge of imagining what a good life means. Sound nutrition, shelter, health care, personal safety, social stability, security of savings, clean air and water, and the development of children are among the elements of what many envision as vital to a happy and healthy society.
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Bring on the Bubble: William Janeway on the Future of Green Technologies
Sep 4, 2013
Where will today’s innovation come from?
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Conference paper
New Metrics for Economic Complexity: Measuring the Intangible Growth Potential of Countries
Apr 2013
In this paper we provide a summary and a guide to the literature for a new line of research which goes under the name of Economic Complexity and is partly performed incollaboration with INET.
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Growth and Technological Change in Complex Systems
Apr 5, 2013 | 10:30—11:45
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Conference paper
Assessing Development
Apr 2013
There are a number of possible purposes in assessing the level of economic development of a country or part of a country. The assessment may provide an incentive for better development, particularly if it can be compared meaningfully with assessments for other countries.
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What is Development?
Apr 5, 2013 | 08:30—09:15