Duke Economist Seeks to Create a Nature-Based Economy

Some people might say you can’t put a price tag on a whale or an elephant, but not Connel Fullenkamp, professor of the practice of economics. He and several colleagues have been working for the last four years to do just that.

In 2021, Fullenkamp, along with Ralph Chami, a former International Monetary Fund economist, and two others, founded Blue Green Future, an organization researching ways to offset greenhouse gas emissions by putting a value on carbon