ethical investingEthical investing also known as Socially Responsible Investing or SRI attempts to ensure that invested funds are not used to violate the investor's most basic moral values or ethical codes. There are a wide variety of means to ensure that invested funds a
externalityAn externality occurs in economics when a decision (e. to wear obnoxious perfume or to dress up in nice clothes) causes costs or benefits to individuals or groups other than the person making the decision. In other words, the decision-maker does not bear
fair tradeFair trade equitable trade is a term used broadly by social justice, peace movement, ecology movement, and Green Movement groups, to contrast with 'unfair' trade practices, and sometimes with free trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization and NAFT
Free-market environmentalismFree market environmentalism is an ideology that argues the free market is the best tool to preserve the health and sustainability of the environment. This is in sharp contrast to the most common modern approach of looking to government intervention to he
green economicsGreen economics loosely defines a theory of economics by which an economy is considered to be component of the ecosystem in which it resides. A holistic approach to the subject is typical, such that economic ideas are commingled with any number of other s
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income inequality metricsEconomists have developed numerous ways of measuring income inequality, and by extension income equality. The various techniques are typically categorized as either absolute measures or relative measures. Absolute income criteria Absolute measures define
Lorenz curveThe Lorenz curve was developed by Max O. Lorenz as a graphical representation of income inequality. It can also be used to measure inequality of assets or other distributions. In discussions of personal income, we frequently make statements such as, "the
