With Robin Hood Gardens in danger of being destroyed, it’s time to look beyond appearances and recognise its real value.
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A panel of scholars provide analysis of the Obama administration’s EPA Clean Power Plan and its impact on the electricity sector, the climate and politics at home and abroad.
Founded in 1790, the Patent Office aimed to put innovation and entrepreneurship within reach of every citizen. Now, 10 million patents later, critics say an out-of-touch system is doing the opposite.
Hillary Clinton’s energy and climate platform emphasizes renewable energy and the health benefits of the plan – a position that will resonate with many voters.
Some theorists suggest that such platforms are making our world more efficient by natural selection. The reality is a little more complicated.
A re-analysis of research into deworming interventions at Kenyan schools has confirmed some findings and disputed others. However, it does not take away from the programme’s effectiveness.
The American public appear to be of two minds on climate change in politics: supportive of policy action but unconvinced climate change is an urgent priority.
Many of the targeted behavioral responses to climate change involve reducing energy consumption. This makes sense as the majority of energy consumed (pretty much throughout all history) has involved burning…
Checking online reviews is a big part of shopping. But review sites can be manipulated. Does favoring reviews posted by your social media contacts help with trustworthy, meaningful content?
Guns will be allowed on public universities in Texas from August 1. Given the recent incident of a student shooting the professor and then himself, reportedly over grades, are there reasons to worry?
The EPA and other federal agencies have yet to address environmental justice – despite a long history of poor and minority communities suffering environmental ills disproportionately.
While someone’s bargaining position can be shaped by competition, we economists know that there is a big gray area in our ability to predict negotiated prices. Competitive options for buyers and sellers…
After 100 years of policies pushing federal land management, it’s time to admit they’ve been a costly failure.
Amazon just announced a new product called the Dash button. Basically, it is a button with a label like Tide or Cottonelle, connected to the internet and available only to Amazon Prime members (you know…
If you have been on Twitter this past month, you have heard of Meerkat. This is an app that allows you to stream video from your mobile phone. It’s barely a month old and already it seems there’s a “Meerkat…
A lot has been written about the Apple Watch Edition and its price tag of more than $10,000, all the way up to $25,000. Many have decried it’s super luxury status, while others see it as shrewd strategy…
Nokia, Motorola, Sony-Ericsson and BlackBerry-maker Research in Motion were all victims of disruption. During the 1990s and 2000s, they shepherded the cell phone during its period of takeoff into ubiquity…
Its ratings are worse. So why is Fresh Off the Boat considered a success, while All-American Girl was canceled?
Short answer: it isn’t obvious that it can. Let me back up a second and explain why I am revisiting this issue. Tim Harford published an article a few days ago that took his masterful econsplaining skills…
As Internet service providers – both wired and wireless – continue to lose ground in the net neutrality debate, they have retreated to engineering requirements rather than economic arguments. Where previously…
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Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto
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Lynton K. Caldwell Professor, Indiana University
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Professor of Media Studies, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Research Fellow in Bioethics, Monash University
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Associate Professor in the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
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Professor of Urban Informatics, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Public Policy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Michigan State University
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Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Boston University
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Lecturer in Positive Psychology, University of East London
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
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Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Seth Bonder Collegiate Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan
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Professor of Energy Policy, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney
