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Jeroen van den Bergh

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Jeroen van den Bergh is ICREA Professor in the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2007–present), and honorary full Professor of Environmental Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1997–present). He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. He received various awards, including the Royal/Shell Prize 2002 for Sustainability Research, IEC’s Sant Jordi Environmental Prize 2011, and an honorary doctorate from the Open University in the Netherlands. He currently leads an ERC Advanced Grant on the topic “Behavioural-evolutionary analysis of climate policy”. His latest book is Human Evolution beyond Biology and Culture: Evolutionary Social, Environmental and Policy Sciences, published by Cambridge University Press (2018).

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Why Universal Basic Income Should Be President Biden’s Top Priority

Robert Ayres & Jeroen van der Bergh

An updated system of income and taxes would alleviate the worst crises the United States faces, including climate change. What’s more, we’ve got the numbers to prove it can work.
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