What is a 'sustainable nation’ and how can we identify and rank ‘sustainable nations’? Are nations producing and consuming in a sustainable way? Aggregate indicators have been proposed to answer these questions. This paper quantitatively compares three aggregate indicators of...

Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...

We explore the idea of public policy from the perspective of evolutionary thinking. Thisinvolves paying attention to concepts like diversity, population, selection, innovation,coevolution, group selection, path-dependence and lock-in. We critically discuss the notion ofevolutionary progress. The...