Traditional market pricing often fails to reflect the true environmental and social costs of production and consumption, leading to distorted signals that encourage overuse of resources and unsustainable practices. Innovative approaches emerging around 2022 sought to correct these distortions by integrating sustainability directly into pricing mechanisms. For example, blockchain-based environmental tokens and carbon-linked cryptocurrencies allowed dynamic tracking of ecological impacts, embedding real-time costs into market transactions. At the same time, tools like AI-driven lifecycle analysis and augmented reality applications enabled consumers to see the hidden environmental costs of products, making sustainability a visible factor in everyday purchasing decisions.

Policy innovations also played a key role in realigning markets. Sustainability-linked taxation systems, such as eco-VAT or repair-based tax reductions, created financial incentives for greener behavior. New accounting frameworks like the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) proposed adjusting company profits based on environmental and social externalities, helping investors and regulators better assess true corporate value. Additionally, emerging markets for biodiversity credits and regenerative capital systems further bridged the gap between ecological value and economic pricing. These ideas collectively offer bold, systemic methods to realign market pricing with long-term sustainability goals.

Mohammed, if you take the time to read the article you will find some food for thoughts that may support or undermine even AI COPY CAT THINKING?

I appreciate the time that you took to comment.

Respectfully yours;

Lucio

2022 “outside the box” ideas for correcting distorted traditional market pricing: scholars and practitioners proposed hybrid instruments in 2022 — e.g., layered pricing (combining full externality pricing with localized dwarf-market patches), institutional reforms that create endogenous social-cost accounting, and Kuhnian transition framing to accelerate acceptance of sustainability pricing as a new paradigm rather than incremental reform.

Chuck, have you read the article? You are describing my article in general sense there without sourcing,,,,who are thos other researchers? Do you know anyone doing research using the way of systematic thinking?