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Meeting Housing Needs within Planetary Boundaries: A UK Case StudyHorn, S., Gough, I., Rogers, C. & Tunstall, R.Ecological EconomicsProposes a sufficiency approach to meet UK housing needs while staying within planetary boundaries.Housing2025
Land Taxes: From Theory to PracticeAllen, N. B., Anderson, J., Murphy, D. & Yang, Z.National Tax JournalBridges theory and practice on where and how land-value taxes are likely to work best.Economics2024
Housing Cycles and GentrificationMurphy, D.Journal of Monetary EconomicsDocuments how metro-wide housing-market booms accelerate gentrification of downtown locations.Housing2024
Inequality, Fiscal Policy and COVID-19 Restrictions in a Demand-Determined EconomyAuerbach, A. J., Gorodnichenko, Y. & Murphy, D.European Economic ReviewModels how inequality depresses output and weakens demand-side fiscal stimulus during COVID-19.Inequality2021
Pervasive Human-Driven Decline of Life on Earth Points to the Need for Transformative ChangeDíaz, S., et al.ScienceIPBES global assessment finding nature in steep decline worldwide, requiring transformative societal change.Ecology2019
Housing Constraints and Spatial MisallocationHsieh, C.-T. & Moretti, E.American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsEstimates how housing-supply constraints in productive cities misallocate labor and lower U.S. growth.Housing2019
Metropolitan Land ValuesAlbouy, D., Ehrlich, G. & Shin, M.Review of Economics and StatisticsEstimates the value of land across U.S. metropolitan areas and how it varies with location.Housing2018
Planetary Boundaries: Guiding Human Development on a Changing PlanetSteffen, W., et al.ScienceUpdates the planetary boundaries framework, finding several boundaries already transgressed.Ecology2015
Accelerated Modern Human-Induced Species Losses: Entering the Sixth Mass ExtinctionCeballos, G., et al.Science AdvancesPresents evidence that modern extinction rates signal the onset of a sixth mass extinction.Ecology2015
Income Inequality and Health: A Causal ReviewPickett, K. E. & Wilkinson, R. G.Social Science & MedicineReviews the evidence that income inequality causally worsens population health.Inequality2015
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