In some applications to human beings, the precautionary principle seems to raise specific ethical concerns. For instance, it has been used to exclude men who have sexual relations with men from donating blood on the basis of a higher HIV prevalence in this group. Does not the precautionary...

Efficiency of SRI portfolios is commonly assessed based on an inconclusive risk-return ratio. We propose to approach the efficiency of portfolios with the notion of instability. Unstable portfolios are characterized by higher transaction costs and human resources costs that justify search for...

We investigate the impact of short-term meditation on prosocial investment before and during a financial crisis in a lab-experiment involving 188 student subjects: 97 of them meditated for five days in a row, and 91 of them listened to a simple narrative before engaging in an economic...