1st Edition

Economics and Climate Emergency

Edited By Barry Gills, Jamie Morgan Copyright 2023
356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

356 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed. Thirty years have passed since the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the beginning of policy on climate... Read more

Introduction: economics and climate emergency 

Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan 

1. ‘The economy’ as if people mattered: revisiting critiques of economic growth in a time of crisis 

Clive L. Spash 

2. What does degrowth mean? A few points of clarification 

Jason Hickel 

3. What does Degrowth mean? Some comments on Jason Hickel’s ‘A few points of clarification’ 

Ted Trainer 

4. Economics and the climate catastrophe 

James K. Galbraith 

5. Apologists for growth: passive revolutionaries in a passive revolution 

Clive L. Spash 

6. The appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change 

Steve Keen 

7. The failure of Integrated Assessment Models as a response to ‘climate emergency’ and ecological breakdown: the Emperor has no clothes 

Salvi Asefi-Najafabady, Laura Villegas-Ortiz and Jamie Morgan 

8. Teaching climate complacency: mainstream economics textbooks and the need for transformation in economics education 

Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan 

9. Unthinking knowledge production: from post-Covid to post-carbon futures 

Jana Bacevic 

10. In search of a political economy of the postgrowth era 

Max Koch and Hubert Buch-Hansen 

11. Rule of nature or rule of capital? Physiocracy, ecological economics, and ideology 

Gareth Dale 

12. Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: towards a comprehensive policy 

Nick J. Fox and Pam Alldred 

13. From climate change to economic change? Reflections on ‘feedback’ 

James Goodman and James Anderson 

14. The regenerative turn: on the re-emergence of reciprocity embedded in living ecologies 

Jonas Egmose, Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, Henrik Hauggaard-Nielsen and Lars Hulgård 

15. The global climate of land politics 

Jennifer C. Franco and Saturnino M. Borras, Jr 

16. From the Paris Agreement to the Anthropocene and Planetary Boundaries Framework: an interview with Will Steffen 

Will Steffen and Jamie Morgan 

17. Postscript, an end to the war on nature: COP in or COP out? 

Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan 

18. Global Climate Emergency: after COP24, climate science, urgency, and the threat to humanity 

Barry Gills and Jamie Morgan 

19. Fiddling while the planet burns? COP25 in perspective 

Peter Newell and Olivia Taylor 

20. Democratizing global climate governance? The case of indigenous representation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 

Pedram Rashidi and Kristen Lyons 

21. Climate and food inequality: the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign response 

Vishwas Satgar and Jane Cherry 

22. The global south, degrowth and The Simpler Way movement: the need for structural solutions at the global level 

Sarah Mackay 

23. Climate justice and sustained transnational mobilization 

Paul Almeida 

24. Deep Restoration: from The Great Implosion to The Great Awakening 

Barry Gills 

Biography

Barry Gills is Editor in Chief of Globalizations and Professor of Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has written widely on World System theory, neoliberalism, globalization, global crises, democracy, resistance and transformative praxis.

Jamie Morgan is Professor of Economic Sociology at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He is the co-editor of the Real-World Economics Review with Edward Fullbrook. He has published widely in the fields of economics, political economy, philosophy, sociology and international politics.