Economics

A market for selling "whale shares" could aid conservation, but some experts are skeptical

Sigmar Gabriel to lead ambitious shift to renewable power

Preliminary results bode ill for future efforts to use ballot box to require labeling

Three economists probed the mechanisms underlying investment markets

Study predicts big benefits of slowing senescence—but expects hefty costs as well

Monetary systems may have made urban societies possible by encouraging trade

Researchers develop way to turn inedible plants into food

Industry's decline comes from within, not from government regulations, argues new analysis

Duo wins award for work on helping people and companies find the best fits for everything from students to kidneys

People who deliberate share less than those who react quickly, experiment finds

Sense of injustice, rather than mere revenge, motivates our desire to crack down on crime

Northeastern soils are recovering but still show signs of damage

Prizewinning analyses of "rational expectations" bear on current woes but offer no clear solutions

A new study correlates activity in teenagers' neural reward circuitry with song sales 3 years later

Isotopic analysis of Spanish silver coins reveals an origin in Europe, not the New World