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Owen Gaffney, Project Lead of Earth4All, is Chief Impact Officer at Nobel Prize Outreach.

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  1. Tax the Rich to Save the Planet
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    Tax the Rich to Save the Planet

    Mar 31, 2023 Owen Gaffney argues that reducing economic inequality is the key to strengthening democracy and mitigating climate change.

  2. An Antidote to Climate Despair
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    An Antidote to Climate Despair

    Nov 11, 2022 Owen Gaffney, et al. argue that optimism about humanity's potential is an essential tool for addressing existential threats.

  3. Absorbing the Shock of the Energy Transition
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    Absorbing the Shock of the Energy Transition

    Jul 7, 2022 Owen Gaffney explains why a fee-and-dividend scheme is the perfect policy for the era of climate change.

  4. Breaking Germany’s Coal Addiction
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    Breaking Germany’s Coal Addiction

    Feb 7, 2019 Johan Rockström & Owen Gaffney consider the global implications of the country's move to phase out dirty energy.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

     hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

     wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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