Selling fear: Marketing for cybersecurity products often leaves consumers less secure

Ever feel like throwing up your hands and giving up on taking control of your online security? How technology companies market their cybersecurity products might have something to do with that.

Doug Jacobson, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University • conversation
Jan. 2, 2025 ~8 min

A new global carbon trading market could be held hostage by speculators

There are lessons from the EU’s highly financialised cap-and-trade market.

Emre Tarim, Lecturer in Behavioural Sciences, Lancaster University • conversation
Dec. 6, 2024 ~7 min


Robo price-fixing: Why the Justice Department is suing a software company to stop landlords colluding on rents

RealPage, Inc. provides software that lets landlords keep rental prices high. The Justice Department cried foul on the price-fixing practice.

Roger Alford, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame • conversation
Nov. 18, 2024 ~8 min

A beginner’s guide to greenwash and four ways to avoid falling for it

So much complicated jargon makes it difficult to distinguish between environmentally ethical practices and mere feel-good marketing. Here’s how to spot greenwash.

Lala Rukh, Doctoral Researcher in Energy, University of Galway • conversation
Nov. 11, 2024 ~7 min

Companies are buying up cheap carbon offsets − data suggest it may be more about greenwashing than helping the climate

A deep dive into 866 public companies and 1,413 carbon projects reveals some twists in who relies on cheap offsets and who chooses to cut their own emissions instead.

Sehoon Kim, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Florida • conversation
Nov. 11, 2024 ~8 min

Companies are buying up cheap carbon offsets − data suggest it’s more about greenwashing than helping the climate

A deep dive into 866 public companies and 1,413 carbon projects reveals some twists in who relies on cheap offsets and who chooses to cut their own emissions instead.

Sehoon Kim, Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Florida • conversation
Nov. 11, 2024 ~8 min

Companies keep selling harmful products – but history shows consumers can win in the end

Health leaders, researchers, advocacy groups, companies and the public have saved millions of lives by reducing the consumption of unhealthy products.

Eszter Rimanyi, Chronic disease and addiction epidemiologist, Duke University • conversation
Sept. 30, 2024 ~8 min

How ‘woke’ marketing lets fast fashion brands get away with environmental and labour abuses

Fashion can be a useful vehicle for political messages – until someone asks who makes the clothing.

Mariko Takedomi Karlsson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Human Ecology, Lund University • conversation
Aug. 12, 2024 ~6 min


The global food system is owned by an ever smaller number of companies – it’s damaging our health, our communities and the planet

High levels of market concentration lead to price rises and more ultra-processed food.

Timothy Monteath, Assistant Professor, University of Warwick • conversation
July 17, 2024 ~6 min

A natural deception: 3 marketing myths the supplement industry wants you to swallow

‘Natural’ isn’t the same thing as healthful. You can have too much of a good thing, and taking action can be worse than doing nothing.

Katie Suleta, Doctorate in Health Sciences candidate, George Washington University • conversation
April 5, 2024 ~7 min

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