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When the environmentalists speak with economists, it's like a schizophrenic dialogue, completely incoherent.

Now, for the last 10 years, I went around the world meeting economists, scientists, neuroscientists, environmentalists, philosophers, thinkers in the Himalayas, all over the place.

I put it to one side and I began a new journey of learning, speaking to chief executives, experts, scientists, economists to try to understand just how our global economy works.

And this introduction of competition and choice does exactly what the economists would predict.

Well, we asked a team of economists at Deloitte who checked and crunched the numbers, and they came back and said, well, look: if the world's average wealth goes from $14,000 a year to $23,000 a year, social progress is going to increase from 61 to 62.4.

So for all of these reasons, all of these ecosystem services, economists estimate the value of the world's coral reefs in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

Economists call this a bubble.

Most modern economists deal with the paradox of value by attempting to unify these considerations under the concept of utility, how well something satisfies a person's wants or needs.

I'll mention just one more, because the World Economic Forum last month in Davos, after their annual survey of 750 economists, said the climate crisis is now the number one risk to the global economy.

I wanted the best answer from mainstream economists left, right and center.

All of us talk about education just as the economists do now, as an investment that you make to improve the human stock by training them for work.

Now even economists admit going to college pays off for only those who complete it.

The consensus amongst economists is that free trade, the movement of capital, the movement of people across borders benefit everyone on aggregate.

A lot of people, and this includes everybody from philosophers and economists to ordinary people believe that human nature is fundamentally selfish, that we're only ever really motivated by our own welfare.

You see, keeping salaries secret leads to what economists call "information asymmetry."

Economists warn that information asymmetry can cause markets to go awry.

Economists call the value that we gain from our informal networks, from our friends and colleagues and family "social capital."

Economists have been exploring people's behavior for hundreds of years: how we make decisions, how we act individually and in groups, how we exchange value.

The challenge that this phenomenon creates, what economists call employment polarization, is that it knocks out rungs in the economic ladder, shrinks the size of the middle class and threatens to make us a more stratified society.

Just in time, a set of economists got there and said, "Why not try an auction?

So most economists believe that while too much of either is dangerous, a small, consistent amount of inflation is necessary to encourage economic growth.

Economists, sociologists, moral philosophers have understood that, and we are actively looking for collaboration.

So in launching the Climate Leadership Council, I started by reaching out to a who's who of Republican elder statesmen and business leaders, including James Baker and George Schultz, the two most respected Republican elder statesmen in America; Martin Feldstein and Greg Mankiw, the two most respected conservative economists in the country; and Henry Paulson and Rob Walton, two of the most successful and admired business leaders.

Economists agree that the best solution is to put a price on the carbon content of fossil fuels, otherwise known as a carbon tax.

Modern economists have a few solutions up their sleeves.

And I asked a team of economists to actually look into this.

I'm a researcher, a scientist working with economists, financial economists, ethicists, neuroscientists, lawyers and others trying to understand what makes humans tick, and how can we address this issue of fraud in corporations and therefore contribute to the improvement of the world.

So, economists tend to talk in technical words.

Economists talk about game theory, that every two-person game has a Nash equilibrium.

I'm privileged to be working with a team of economists, social policy experts and neuroscientists in leading Baby's First Years, the first-ever randomized study to test whether poverty reduction causes changes in children's brain development.

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