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Sustainable Investment Funds Can Encourage Worse Behavior

The Horizons Tracker

Subsequently, leveraging historical data, the researchers evaluated the responses of the highest and lowest polluting groups to fluctuations in their capital costs, an impact similar to the objectives of the sustainable investing movement.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

That is, potentially amazing technology if you can only figure out how it works. In a way it’s surprisingly close to Shiller, but Shiller’s view is that people can’t know the true model and then become excessively influenced by social forces, and can get into a herd mentality. Lars is famous for that.

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