A Rising Sea and Underwater Real Estate

by Larry Shultz | Feb 27, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Climate, Public Policy, Real Estate

New Research from Antarctica Affirms The Threat of the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ But Funding to Keep Studying it Is Running Out – Inside Climate News In Florida I see near zero support for a public policy of a strategic retreat to higher elevations. It does not seem...

Virtual Labor Imports

by Larry Shultz | Feb 27, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Biophysical Economics, Public Policy

The international division of labor and embodied working time in trade for the US, the EU and China (sciencedirectassets.com)

Serotonin and Dopamine Modulated Human Social Cognition

by Larry Shultz | Feb 26, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics

First-in-humans discovery reveals brain chemicals at work influencing social behavior (medicalxpress.com)

The Psychopathology of High Discount Rates and Nuclear Power

by Larry Shultz | Feb 25, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Ecology, Education, Energy, MPP, Physical Chemistry, Public Health, Public Policy, US West

Will Congress ever create a new independent agency to store nuclear waste permanently? | Peak Everything, Overshoot, & Collapse (energyskeptic.com)

Positional Goods and a Warming World

by Larry Shultz | Feb 24, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Climate, Democracy, Energy, Human and Civil rights, Public Policy

Scientists’ warning on affluence | Nature Communications

Scabies and Rickets and Measels, Oh My

by Larry Shultz | Feb 21, 2024 | Behavioral Economics, Public Health, Public Policy

‘It is shameful’: why the return of Victorian-era diseases to the UK alarms health experts | Health | The Guardian