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Karl T. Muth advocates managing, rather than simply slashing, our level of emissions. As the 21st century moves onward, left-wing environmentalism continues to look more like…
The Post-2015 Consensus' tenth set of papers explore the value of biodiversity, and estimate the benefits and costs of conservation. Biodiversity – the range of species we share…
The Post-2015 Consensus' ninth set of papers focuses on climate change, why it is important and what targets should be set. Climate change has certainly received immense exposure…
In the past two decades we have passed through three phases of media ecology, and each has shaped a different way media have entered into the operations and understandings of war…
Karl Muth argues that policymakers should approach suicide as a choice, and not a crime or a disease. After a recent suicide in my own family, and having recently revised my will…
Karl T. Muth suggests Sony can fight back. I've advised companies in serious, bet-the-company situations. I suggest that Sony is in such a situation: its decisions this week and…
Andy Sumner argues that it may be more useful to ask when aid works, not whether. The policy debate around whether foreign aid—now $138.5 billion a year—works has been polarized…
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The Post-2015 Consensus' latest set of papers suggest setting universal access to sexual and reproductive health services as a target for the post-2015 development agenda and…
Karl Muth suggests a way out of the polarised gridlock that has come to define Occidental liberal democracy. When I was a teenager – during the Blair government and the Clinton…