Articles about 'economics'

Thanks to the work of two Cambridge researchers, businesses and policymakers alike can see how the Cambridge Cluster continues to thrive and what steps they should take to ensure a sustainable future.

From pollinators to profits, food to fires, here's what Cambridge experts say about the impacts of water scarcity – and what it signals about our changing climate.

The first biodiversity-adjusted sovereign credit rating warns of looming national debt crises across 26 countries. Financial markets should use scientific research to integrate nature loss into credit risk assessments, say researchers.

Cambridge economists are at the forefront of a global movement to create new statistical methods that include vital components of prosperity – from nature to social bonds – currently absent from national accounting.

The new Janeway Institute will be conducting and disseminating research at the frontier of economics, according to founder and alumnus William Janeway.

New research shows the gender gap in the teaching and study of economics is still dramatic and actually getting worse. Economists argue that this is not just a problem for the discipline, but for society as a whole.

Cambridge economists add climate science to Standard & Poor’s global credit formula and find that 63 nations face downgrades by 2030 unless action is taken to reduce emissions.

The largest study of its kind finds that in most cases economic value is higher when habitats are conserved or restored, rather than converted to uses such as farming.

However, UK supermarkets and online retailers made an additional £4 billion each thanks to the coronavirus lockdown that began in March last year, according to econometric models. 

Nature is a “blind spot” in economics that can no longer be ignored by the accounting systems that dictate national finances, according to a major global review by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.