Environment
I believe that the earth is in deep trouble, because too many people and firms can foist the environmental costs of their lives and actions onto others.
I also think that we already know what public policies would solve most environmental problems. Governments don't adopt such policies, however, because environmental protection is a low priority for the public, and because too few people understand that what governments need to do above all is raise the price of pollution to the polluter -- by taxing it.
Much of my current research is aimed at unpacking this problem.
This work is currently supported by two grants. One, from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, is about “Political trust and the environment: Understanding public attitudes towards environmental taxes and other policies”. The other, from the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences) was awarded for a project on Climate ethics and future generations, based at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm.