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 …
'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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
'Sharpe’s favoured alternative to neoclassical economics is a form of evolutionary economics: when it comes to the energy transition this notion is deeply flawed.'
… February 2024 | Comment Climate Breakdown EVs Economics Editor’s Picks … favoured alternative to neoclassical economics is a form of evolutionary economics: when it comes to the energy …
The COVID-19 pandemic and the climate emergency made one thing clear: we have to radically rethink the way we work.
Our system of work is broken Katy Wiese | 11th February 2021 | Comment Dasgupta Review Editor’s Picks Universal Basic Income Degrowth Work Consumption Covid-19 Oil Palm Saplings on Burned Land in …
Education must nurture young people who are aware of the problems that our world faces and who are armed with ideas on how to tackle them.
… Teaching circular economics Matthew Murray | 27th September 2019 News Thought Leaders Teaching Circular Economics Education Waste Pedagogy Editor’s … be more dynamic, and this is where circular economics comes in. A circular economy is one …
Shifting to electric vehicles while maintaining current travelling habits will not deliver emissions reductions required by European Green Deal and Paris Agreement.
… model based on biophysical economics , which goes beyond the simplistic … capital-labour duality of classical economics by giving energy a central place in …
Something scary is lurking in the melting Arctic permafrost, write Tim Radford & Oliver Tickell: 1,700 Gt of carbon. That's 53 years worth of current emissions, and if we let it melt the impact would cost the world $43 tn. Or act now, and we could preserve the Arctic ice for a seventh as much.
Mammoth Arctic carbon thaw would cost us $43 trillion Tim Radford | 23rd September 2015 News Arctic Climate Change Water Emissions Science mammoth-cut.jpg Something scary is lurking in the melting …
The UK budget must be about pouring enough water on climate fires and irrigating resources to those in need - not about plucking geese and ‘maxed-out’ credit cards.
… March 2021 | Comment Ecological Interest Rate Economics Climate Breakdown Budget Editor’s … moments of near compulsory interest in economics. Because nobody really understands … Now we need to change the way we talk about economics and how its purpose is understood. …
A comprehensive Green New Deal restores local jobs, benefits communities is effective in the fight against environmental breakdown.
After coronavirus Prof. Rick Stafford Abigail Croker Dr Peter JS Jones | 23rd April 2020 Comment Coronavirus Green New Deal Climate Breakdown Editor’s Picks …
Economists in the mainstream have not even begun to understand the implications of ecological systems collapse.
… The economics of systems collapse James Meadway | … Economy Tipping Points Climate Breakdown Economics Editor’s Picks … worldview - in the worldview of mainstream economics - becomes an issue only of …
Vivien Dinh speaks to Satish Kumar about his new book, 'Radical Love: From Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each Other, and Ourselves'.
… News Editor’s Picks Satish Kumar Politics And Economics Ecology Energy Lessons From Nature Economics … Oikonomia is the basis for regenerative economics. The whole of this beautiful planet …
Applying market logic to protecting the environment is counter-intuitive and deeply worrying.
… that a UK Government report titled The economics of Biodiversity slipped out with … worth. Once we make that extension, the economics of biodiversity becomes a study in … a model for doing this in her book Doughnut Economics. Since its publication, she’s been …
The annual World Economic Forum (WEF) survey of global risks revealed that the cost crisis has overtaken the failure to act on climate change as the biggest concern.
… Holly Williams | 11th January 2023 | News Economics Editor’s Picks …
The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.
… Simon Pirani | 22nd September 2021 | Comment Economics Degrowth The Imperial Mode Of … – vague. I agree that the approaches to economics and ecology developed by “degrowth” …
Urban regeneration was born from struggle and propagated by ideas for a radical transformation.
… The Future EF Schumacher Small Is Beautiful Economics Editor’s Picks greta_bristol_1_.jpg … our time through the lenses of regenerative economics, policy and systems theory. Speakers …
Small is Beautiful author EF Schumacher proposed organisational principles that would allow for both freedom and order.
… for being an early exponent of a heterodox economics that centres environmentalism, human … wildly popular Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered remains a … “If EF Schumacher's great work on rethinking economics had been called the Principle of …
Plundering nature is the norm within our legal and economic systems. Our survival depends on charting a new course.
… book The Ecology of Law , our politics, economics, law and culture have long been … the near-exclusive focus of our politics and economics, and when we measure success, we … systems which sustain life, our law, economics and politics lag far behind. For …