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Everyday Life

How nudging could help us reduce food related pollution

A recent study(1) discovered that household consumption accounts for around 60% of the total  greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The majority of these emissions comes from housing, transportation and food. Within these categories there’s a lot of variation. For example, air travel has a totally different impact if it is compared with train travel, and eating a salad […]

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A Crisis of Beliefs: A book review

In their book Nicola Gennaioli, professor of finance at Bocconi University, and Andrei Shleifer, professor of economics at Harvard University “A Crisis of Beliefs” give the reader a novel interpretation of the 2008 crisis as well as the tools to understand financial instability on a larger scale. This book is a summary of the authors’ research and it is effective because it gives the possibility to almost everyone […]