In the weekend’s Financial Times, Bill Gates outlines his green manifesto for corporate action. He lists four categories for the urgent attention of CEOs: investment, procurement, R&D and political dialogue. Companies can invest in green capital; buy their supplies from green providers; support green research; and express green opinions to their political representatives. He also…

In Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman describes his research into the following quirk of human nature. If we obtain something desirable, and then lose it or have it taken away some time later, we are unhappier than we would have been had we never received it in the first place. The ‘something’ could be…