Long Read: Economics has been dominated by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of success. But ecological economics measures welfare and sustainability instead.
… Towards an ecological economics David Caicedo Sarralde | 30th July 2021 | Comment Economics Ecological Economics GDP Editor’s Picks Ecologist …
Economics is much more than the study of money, writes Paul Mobbs. It is a belief system, and in its 'mainstream' incarnation, one that serves a very useful purpose - for those that reap the benefits. But as Brian Davey shows in his insightful new book, it's letting the rest of us down: failing to deliver human wellbeing, while driving ecological calamity.
… 'Credo': economics is a belief system - and we are … Paul Mobbs | 6th November 2015 Reviews Economics Books Politics … Economics is much more than the study of … for the 'ecological view' of the world. If economics is a belief system, how can we …
Economics claims to be a science - yet it fails to engage with the world's only real economic actors - people, not theorems. It's time to rethink economics, write David Boyle and Andrew Simms, and ask the revolutionary question: 'What if ... ?'
… What if ... economics became a science? David Boyle Andrew Simms | 3rd February 2014 Comment Economics Green Economy yam-market-africa.png Economics claims to be a science - yet it …
This year's prestigious Leontief Prize for economics has been awarded to Professors James Boyce and Joan Martinez-Alier for their ground-breaking theoretical and applied work integrating ecological, developmental, and justice-oriented approaches into the field of economics. They are worthy winners, says NICK MEYNEN
… the 2017 winners of The Leontief Prize for Economics Nick Meynen | 29th March 2017 News Economics Sustainable Economics Social Justice Environment …
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a seminal book that has inspired contemporary thought on regenerative economics.
… Economics without ethics is wrong Satish Kumar … Small Is Beautiful EF Schumacher Heterodox Economics Elegant Simplicity Economics Resurgence & Ecologist … inspired contemporary thought on regenerative economics. This year marks the 50th …
'The LSE would become a world leader and show other universities teaching economics is incomplete without teaching ecology.'
… We need a London School of Ecology and Economics Satish Kumar | 11th January 2021 | Comment Ecology Economics LSE The Resurgence Trust Editor’s … leader and show other universities teaching economics is incomplete without teaching …
The new Index of Sustainable Economic Growth shows there is a shift to strike a healthier balance between support for the economy, and care for essential social and environmental systems. But can it ever replace GDP as a measure of progress? JAMES CURRAN explores the idea
… James Curran | 30th January 2017 Comment Economics Growth Sustainability The Index Of …
How an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.
… When idiot savants do climate economics Christopher Ketcham | 1st November 2023 | Comment Economics Climate Change Editor’s Picks … and universities worldwide that teach climate economics. Billions Nordhaus’s work literally …
Filmmaker, campaigner and environmental pioneer Helena Norberg-Hodge talks to Jemima Roberts about her latest film - The Economics of Happiness - the damage globalisation is doing, and what can be done to counter it
… 2011 Ethical Living Helena Norberg-hodge Economics Happiness Films Globalisation Politics And Economics helenan-h.b&w.portraitedit.jpg … to Jemima Roberts about her latest film - The Economics of Happiness - the damage …
The EU referendum debate is taking place between different wings of the corporate elite, dominated by assumptions in favour of big business, free trade and endless economic growth, write Helena Norberg-Hodge, Rupert Read & Thomas Wallgren. But to vote for a sustainable future we must adopt a very different, local perspective - one you'll never find in UK's 'mainstream' media.
… Read Thomas Wallgren | 31st May 2016 News EU Economics Sustainability Corporations … between politics at the national level, and economics at the international level. Many … she is the producer of the award-winning The Economics of Happiness and author of Ancient …
The main engine of economic exploitation is the financial system's ever increasing extraction of value through interest payments, according to economist Michael Hudson. Paul Craig Roberts finds his analysis all too accurate, as the over-financialized economies of western countries head down a spiral of poverty, decline, injustice and despair.
… Craig Roberts | 12th February 2016 Reviews Economics Finance Society Books … should have won several Nobel prizes in economics, but he will never get one. Hudson … University of Chicago, which had a leading economics faculty, Hudson studied music and …
We need a new economics that centres our dependence on the environment to understand the coming instability of climate breakdown.
… The economics of breakdown James Meadway | 29th July 2022 | Comment Climate Breakdown Economics Marxism Keynesianism Neoliberalism … 51071831427_bc1a86ef65_k.jpg We need a new economics that centres our dependence on the …
The threat posed to nature and society by the massive expansion of industrial, fossil fuel economies was discussed by a generation of authors 60 years ago. What can they teach us today?
… Girardet | 26th September 2022 | Comment Economics Megamorphosis Editor’s Picks World … across major landmarks of ecological and economics thinking that helped define the … of the new discipline of ecological economics. They had a profound effect in …
Well-being is not just a luxury for good economic times, writes Christine Berry. Reducing poverty and promoting equality are more important economic goals than the pursuit of endless growth.
… Christine Berry | 30th April 2014 Comment Economics Society Green Economy Consumerism … down with it. Essentially, neoclassical economics assumes that individual welfare … damaging to well-being. For example, the New Economics Foundation's analysis of European …
It’s the battle of the century. In one corner, the Economy – big, bloated, greedy and growing. In the other, the planet Earth – fragile, finite and fighting back.
… How modern economics causes both inner and outer climate … Analysis Climate Change Usage Rationing Risk Economics Environment Justice Green Lifestyle … UK Lessons From Nature Politics And Economics Society Archive_202.jpg It’s the …
Political support for fracking is not just about energy, writes Paul Mobbs. It reflects the greater ecological and resource crisis at the root of our current economic woes - and only postpones the essential shift to a new kind of economy.
… Paul Mobbs | 5th March 2014 News Fossil Fuels Economics Green Economy Fracking UK Club Of … message regarding the relationship between economics, energy and the environment. That's … carbon issue . In addition to the ecological economics debate , we're now at peak oil too - …
‘Religion is the opium of the people’ is one of Marx’s best-known aphorisms. It is memorable because it tells us so much about the manipulation of faith in the industrial era
… News Economic Growth Karl Marx Neo-liberalism Economics Growth Consumerism International … Development Globalisation Politics And Economics Society Archive_37.jpg ‘Religion is …
Gordon Brown's Budget was disappointing. But not just because of its economic niceties. It fails to address key issues which have become taboo amongst economists - money, debt and economic growth. Molly Scott Cato, a green economist and Senior Lecturer in Social Economy at the Cardiff School of Management, addresses all three...
… Molly Scott Cato | 22nd March 2007 Comment Economics Gordon Brown Budget Growth UK Economics Globalisation Subsidies Fair Trade Politics And Economics Society molly_cato_headshot.jpg …
The idea that our profit-oriented, growth-driven economic system can deliver a sustainable society is a beguiling one, write Lili Fuhr, Thomas Fatheuer & Barbara Unmüßig. But it is doomed to failure. The changes we need are in the first place political, and will be driven by a new democratic will to put people and planet before money.
… | 19th July 2016 Comment Green Economy Economics Politics Technology Corporations … Moreover, it reasserts the primacy of economics, thereby failing to recognize the …
Adam Smith, the author of The Wealth of Nations, is sometimes credited as the first political economist and many of his followers today advocate free market, laissez-faire, policy. Here Dr ROBERT BIEL argues that Smith was also an early systems theorist - but also sets out why Smith's theory and the system he described are a threat to our ecology
… What is wrong with a system of laissez-faire economics? Robert Biel | 11th April 2018 Comment Nature Systems Theory Economics Laissez-faire … impasse. What is salutary is that mainstream economics is coming to be met with increased …
The 'death of peak oil' has been much exaggerated, writes Paul Mobbs. Take out high-cost 'unconventional' oil and production peaked ten years ago, and even North America's fracking and tar sands boom has failed to open up new resources both big enough to make good the shortfall, and cheap enough to reward investors. We really do need to be thinking 'beyond petroleum'.
… oil Paul Mobbs | 5th May 2015 News Energy Oil Economics syncrude-cut.jpg The 'death of peak … about is whether this is the result of recent economics, or some longer-term trend. This … the result of the interaction of geology and economics: Geology gives a natural …
Now is the time to be bold, and to envisage a holistic, green recovery linking human wellbeing with the health of ecosystems.
… Reframing economics Herbert Girardet | 27th April 2021 | Comment Economics Editor’s Picks Resurgence & … We have much to learn from nature’s economics, which are very different from our …
In drowning out the voices of those economists that don't adhere to neoclassical orthodoxy, the current global financial collapse was inevitable
… Face it: orthodox economics messed up Molly Scott Cato | 14th … July 2009 Comment Comments Molly Scott Cato Economics Financial Crisis molly.jpg In … For somebody with any experience of academic economics as a profession this, although …