Part I: Setting the scene
1. Introduction: an economy within the environment
2. The whistle-blowers
Part II Economic schools and the environment
3. Neoclassical economics
4. Environmental economics
5. Ecological economics
6. Green economics
7. Anti-capitalist economics
Part III: Issues and policies
8. A range of policy approaches
9. Economic growth
10. Climate change: the greatest example of market failure?
11. All that the earth provides: the economics of resources
12. Pollution
13. Globalization vs. localization
14. Markets or commons
15. Conclusion: Is it the economy? Are we stupid?
Biography
Molly Scott Cato was the Green MEP for the South West of England and Gibraltar until the UK left the European Union in January 2020 and is now Professor of Green Economics at Roehampton University. She was previously Director of the Welsh Institute for Research into Cooperatives. In 2009 she published Green Economics and in 2012 The Bioregional Economy, both books developing a vision of a just and sustainable economy. Molly has published widely on issues relating to sustainable economics and the social economy. She lives in Stroud where she is inspired by the lived example of a sustainable community.
