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Green or Greed

No Prosperity Without Respect for Nature

For years, we have told ourselves a convenient story: maximize short-term profit and comfort while pushing the real costs into the future. This apparent cynicism took hold because it was politically convenient. It seemed easier to defer the consequences of short-sighted choices—strategic dependencies, industrial fragility, and the erosion of natural capital—until geopolitical shocks and accelerating ...

Evaluating Infrastructure Investment

From Financial Viability to Social Welfare

The book explains how to evaluate infrastructure projects using Cost–Benefit Analysis (CBA), combining welfare economics with the practical realities of public decision-making. Aimed at graduate students and practitioners, it treats infrastructure as both an economic good and a political choice, shaped by uncertainty, externalities, and distributional effects. It argues that CBA should guide real ...

Political Economics

Redistributive Policies This book is written for undergraduate students in Economics and in Political Science who want to learn about the political economics of redistributive policies. It provides a positive analysis of the political process behind the design and implementation of redistributive policies, by using the minimum level of mathematical formalization required, in an attempt to be accessible ...