Strengths and weaknesses of the PJM market model
The core of the iconic PJM market design is a bid-based-security-constrained-economic-dispatch-with-locational-marginal-prices (BBSCEDLMP) model that works in theory and in practice.
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Social Science Research to Inform Solar Geoengineering
As the prospect of average global warming exceeding 1.5°C becomes increasingly likely, interest in supplementing mitigation and adaptation with solar geoengineering (SG) responses will almost certainl
Fixing capitalism’s good jobs problem
Conventional welfare state policies that centre on education, training, progressive taxation, and social insurance are inadequate to address labour market polarization, which is capitalism’s most pres
China's overseas lending
Compared with China's pre-eminent status in world trade, its role in global finance is poorly understood.
The Role of Social Signaling in Selective Exposure to Information
Effective judgment and decision making demands exposure to diverse information.
The association of paid medical and caregiving leave with the economic security and wellbeing of service sector workers
Background Service-sector workers in the U.S. face extremely limited access to paid family and medical leave, but little research has examined the consequences for worker wellbeing.
When Innovation Goes Wrong: Technological Regress and the Opioid Epidemic
The fourfold increase in opioid deaths between 2000 and 2017 rivals even the COVID-19 pandemic as a health crisis for America. Why did it happen?
Growth In ACA-Compliant Marketplace Enrollment And Spending Risk Changes During The COVID-19 Pandemic
In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic caused millions to lose their jobs and, consequently, their employer-sponsored health insurance.
Habits of Courage: Reconceptualizing Risk in Social Movement Organizing
We examine the types of risk that organizers seeking to build people-based political power take and describe how organizers cultivate habits of courage in themselves and others to regularly confront t
Create a COVID-19 commission
The 2019 Global Health Security Index concluded that although “no country is fully prepared for epidemics or pandemics,” the United States scored highest among all countries in pandemic preparedness.
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