The noxious consequences of innovation: what do we know?

2020-02-20

A new paper “The noxious consequences of innovation: what do we know?” is now out. The paper reviews extant literature addressing the harmful impacts of innovation on society and the environment and sets a new agenda for research (see abstract …

Predatory Journals: a new paper just out in Nature

2020-01-14

Predatory journals: no definition, no defence Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and 3 rounds to reach. A new paper …

Partnership in Forum per la Disuguaglianza e Diversità

2019-11-10

Chiara Certomà is now project partner in the Forum per la Disuguaglianza e Diversità, supported by Fondazione Lelio e Lisli Basso and active citizenship organizations ( ActionAid, Caritas Italiana, Cittadinanzattiva, Dedalus Cooperativa sociale, Fondazione di Comunità di Messina, Legambiente, Uisp) and lead by Fabrizio Barca. The forum …

Deep and Proximate Determinants of the World Income Distribution

2019-10-23

Angela Parenti and Davide Fiaschi published a new paper on economic inequality, co-authored with Mario Lavezzi (Uni Palermo). The paper has been published by the Review of Income and Wealth and is available here. Abstract This paper studies the deep …

Low-Carbon Transition Simulations Online Platforms

2019-10-10

Two new, updated online platforms that simulate low-carbon transition are available online! REMARC researchers have recently developed web tools that allow users to simulated various environmental and social policies and assess their impact on greenhouse gas emissions and income distribution. …