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“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth Day provides the unique opportunity to delve into research, thoughts, and ideas pertaining to our role in the planet’s evolution, as well as a chance to reflect on our daily influence on the environments we call home. While the Earth often appears as a permanent entity, our presence and the policies we enact directly affect the future of the planet. Earth Day reminds us that our actions— and inactions—have measurable consequences.

To celebrate this occasion of discussion and reflection, the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy presents a brand new Earth Day Virtual Issue, containing 15 free articles covering some of the most important topics in the environmental economics field.

Discover how climate change is impacting coastal regions, developing countries, and the agricultural industry; how environmental regulations can enact real change; and how renewable energy sources are being utilized around the world. Read the virtual issue.

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics’ latest virtual issue features 12 articles highlighting recent research on gender and inequality in society, the workplace, the home and more.

Discover how gender influences competitiveness and career choices, how household income affects intergenerational mobility, and how race, gender, and parents’ socioeconomic class can alter children’s chances of becoming inventors. This collection of free content is available until June 2019.

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The Society for Financial Studies presents a brand new Virtual Issue in honor of Financial Literacy Month on the topic of debt in its various forms. Explore 12 free articles from the society’s family of journals: The Review of Financial Studies, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and The Review of Corporate Finance Studies. Areas of focus include mortgages, student debt, and general loans.

Discover the factors that influence our decisions to follow financial advice, how payday loan access affects military personnel performance, what role the middle class played in the mortgage crisis, and how student aid programs are affected by credit supply. Read the virtual issue.

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The latest virtual issue from the American Journal of Agricultural Economics highlights recent research on agricultural and food trade, and features eleven free articles drawing on current international economic analysis. The collection covers export and other trade policies, geographic indicators, export performance of the food industry, and more.

To learn more about how agricultural economists are applying current theoretical frameworks to an important set of trade issues, read the virtual issue.

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While humans have engaged in trade since the earliest times, the importance of international trade has grown dramatically due to improvements in transportation and communication. International trade affects people on a daily basis, from the food people eat to the clothes they wear. Whether the effects have been positive, including increasing wealth and welfare, or negative, such as increasing unemployment and inequality, is hotly debated.

Delve into the research of this highly disputed topic and read our free virtual issue on Trade and Economics, available until the end of March 2019.

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Diving into the OHR Archive | OUPblog

One of my favorite tasks as the OHR’s Social Media Coordinator is interviewing people for the blog. I get to talk to authors of recent articles from the OHR, oral historians using the power of conversation to create change, and a whole lot more.

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OHR Virtual Issue: from roots to the digital turn | OUPblog

We spend a lot of time in this space pointing to particular people or projects that we think are doing interesting things with oral history. In June we talked to Josh Burford, who is using oral history to start important conversations in North Carolina. In April, we heard from Shanna Farrell, who discussed Berkeley’s Oral History Summer Institute.