As of 2009, the "natural foods" industry has become a 22.3 billion dollar giant and "all-natural" is the second-leading marketing claim for all new food products. Even in such a flourishing market, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has never defined

Risk aversion is one of the most widely observed behaviors in the animal kingdom; hence, it must confer certain evolutionary advantages. We confirm this intuition analytically in a binary-choice model of decision-making—risk aversion emerges from mindless

The havoc brought by extreme weather events triggers well-documented adverse effects on human health, communities’ resources and economic development. In this paper, we focus on the consequences of disasters on financial markets and infer the impact of

The havoc brought by extreme weather events triggers well-documented adverse effects on human health, communities’ resources and economic development. In this paper, we focus on the consequences of disasters on financial markets and infer the impact of