9 good reasons why environmentalists should call themselves economists (and one apparently bad one)

Let’s star with the apparently bad one… Economists!? Please god, no. A thousand times, no. Why on earth would environmentalists, who come in all shapes, sizes and disciplines, want to be named after the ‘dismal scientists” ((to paraphrase Thomas Carlyle)? We might as well call ourselves bankers. But that might not be a bad thing […]