Image Soure: Wikimedia.org Last Monday, Prof. David Card, Prof. Joshua Angrist and Prof. Guido Imbens were awarded with the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic...
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Limit to decouple: The rebound effect.
Image source: National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) In the middle of the 19th Century, the economist William Stanley Jevons started...
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The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs: Critical factors to the institutional uptake of the Circular Economy.
Image Source: European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg. [Fred Marvaux/ © European Union 2020 – Source : EP] In 1990, David Pearce and Robert Kerry...
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Is there life beyond GDP?
How should we measure economic performance and success? We keep using GPD and economic growth and we keep ignoring all the critiques that point out how wrong are both...
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Online conferences, networking while staying home
By Josep Pinyol and Kevin van Langen The latest Edition of the International Conference on Innovation and Circular Economy[1] took place from the 25th to the 27th of...
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From 15 ESRs to one team
The first ReTraCE ESRs Team Retreat took place at the University Parthenope in Naples, from the 16th to the 18th of December. This was a self-organised event that...
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Flying Less as an ESR
Flying is a convenient, affordable, safe, and quick way to travel across countries, making it is the most popular mean of transportation for academics, especially to...
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