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Economics Journals' Engagement in the Planetary Emergency: A misallocation of resources

By: Sam Butler-Sloss, Marc Beckmann

The planetary emergency is an intellectual and humanitarian challenge that urgently warrants a significant amount of research attention from the economics profession. Is this happening? To answer this question, we assess the number of articles in the top 300 economics journals that are about either (a) climate change and/or (b) natural capital, ecosystem services or biodiversity (NEB). We find ...