Articles

The readings in this collection offer insights into neuro and behavioral economics and climate change that you may find interesting.

Neuroeconomics

• Thomas Dietz, et al., Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce U.S. carbon emissions, PNAS, November 2009  Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce U.S. carbon emissions (203.29 kB)

• Glimcher, Camerer, Fehr and Poldrack: Introduction: A Brief History of Neuroeconomics, 2009 Introduction: A Brief History of Neuroeconomics (4.2 MB)


• Dr. Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, phone interview with Joe Cone, conducted October 30, 2008 Phone Interview Joe Cone (39.38 kB)


• Dr. Elinor Ostrom, et al., A General Framework for Analyzing Sustainability of Social-Ecological Systems, Science, Oct. 2009. General framework for analyzing sustainability (349.86 kB)


• Clark C. Gibson, Elinor Ostrom, T.K. Ahn, The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change: a survey, Ecological Economics, 2000. The concept of scale and the human dimensions of global change (432.75 kB)


• Dustin J. Penn, The Evolutionary Roots of Our Environmental Problems: Toward a Darwinian Ecology, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Sept. 2003. The evolutionary roots of our environmental problems (177.61 kB)


• Tania Singer, Understanding Others: Brain Mechanisms of Theory of Mind and Empathy, Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain, 2009. Understanding Others: Brain Mechanisms of Theory of Mind (915.33 kB)


• Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, A new economics in an imperfect world, The Guardian, Oct. 2009. A new economics in an imperfect world (30.65 kB)