VoxTalks Economics

S6 Ep8: Applying economics (not gut feel) to ESG

Mar 17, 2023

23:16

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Do We Reward the Smart People Who Make Informed Decisions?

02:04

Is the General Equilibrium a Good Idea for Individual Investors?

04:08

Is It Shareholder Primacy or Short Termism?

03:19

Introduction

2min

Is There a Cutting Edge to ESG?

2min

Do We Reward the Smart People Who Make Informed Decisions?

2min

10 Reasons to Write an Article on ESG

4min

Is It Shareholder Primacy or Short Termism?

3min

ESG Double Think

2min

How to Improve Firms ESG Metrics

2min

Is the General Equilibrium a Good Idea for Individual Investors?

4min

ESG - I Don't Want to Invest in Carbon Capture Because It's a Risky Investment?

3min

Every CEO, investor, and NGO needs an ESG strategy, and they need it now. But is that urgency making smart people ignore established insights from decades of economic research? Alex Edmans has identified 10 ways in which conventional ESG wisdom might be misguided, and he tells Tim Phillips what they are.