The concept of natural resource rents is much used in the natural resource economics literature. It is therefore somewhat surprising that in this same literature it is difficult to find a clear definition of the concept. Possibly as a result, the concept is often loosely employed and in some...

Technology policy is the most widespread form of climate policy and is often preferred over seemingly efficient carbon pricing. We propose a new explanation for this observation: gains that predominantly accrue to households with large capital assets and that influence majority decisions in...

We review the vast literature on social preferences by assessing what is known about their fundamental properties, their distribution in the broader population, and their consequences for important economic and political behaviors. We provide, in particular, an overview of the empirically...