The investment world is currently shifting towards more societal impact and sustainability. This series of blogs focuses on the most striking changes and the possible obstacles on the way. Following Raworth (2017) donuts economics, six main shifts might transform our current thinking.[1] These shifts are based on behavioural economics theory,…
December is the ultimate month of consumption. It is also a period of reflection. My Christmas blog this year relates to both. Material consumer goods that indicate who we are and what our social status is have been a social phenomenon for centuries. How we dress, where we live, what…
As a social psychologist I am very interested in why people act in a certain way: what drives them and what is the influence of the context? This seems to be particularly interesting in the case of environmental behavior: often people claim to consider the environment important, but they don’t…