Global climate change poses an existential threat to human civilization because it disrupts the supply of natural resources that provide basic life staples – water, food, and energy. If humankind is unable to adapt to a less abundant and less predictable supply of resources, then the effective...

Carbon taxation and the advancement of economic justice do not seem to be particularly consonant goals. But in fact, carbon taxation is vital to preserving economic justice, because it is the most important tool for arresting, to the greatest extent possible, climate change. Climate change is...

For the past several decades, much American lawmaking has been animated by a concern for economic efficiency. At the same time, broad concerns over wealth and income inequality have roiled American politics, and still loom over lawmakers. It can be reasonably argued that a tension exists between...

Climate change threatens the supply of vital, life-sustaining resources, creating shortages that will last longer and occur more frequently than in the past. Extreme weather and changed precipitation patterns will disrupt water and food supplies for some very large and populous regions...

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century, which is surely one of the very few economics treatises ever to be a best-seller, has parachuted into an intensely emotional and deeply divisive American debate: the problem of inequality in the United States. Piketty's core argument is that...