The Church of Economism and Its Discontents
Two centuries of explosive economic growth have radically altered our material and ideological worlds.
ecological economics
Let’s Define Degrowth before we Dismiss it
The reluctance of degrowth-critics to define growth makes for poor debate.
The problem with REDD+
When people take to the streets and demand climate justice, they expect their elected leaders to step up and address the drivers of what is clearly the largest global crisis humanity has ever faced.
The Attention Seeking Economy, Information and the Manufacture of Ignorance
To orientate to the world properly we need to have a proper feel for the huge amount of what we don’t know…
Marxism and Ecology: Common Fonts of a Great Transition
Socialist thought is re-emerging at the forefront of the movement for global ecological and social change.
Economics vs. the Economy
If society does muster the political will in time, the great eco-economic leap forward in cultural evolution could be complete in as little as a generation.
Economics for a Full World
Because of the exponential economic growth since World War II, we now live in a full world, but we still behave as if it were empty, with ample space and resources for the indefinite future.
The Future History of Political Economy – Part 2
Ecological Economics represents the extension into economics of the thermodynamic revolution of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The Future History of Political Economy – Part 1
The power to create wealth gave Midas an unsustainable life as a complete solipsist. Oil’s power to create wealth has had a similar effect on Neoclassical economics.
Getting from Here to There
Business-as-usual is sure to deliver us a future that is both unsustainable and undesirable, with climate change arguably our most pressing problem.
Economics of the Anthropocene
Joshua Farley presenting at the Techno-Utopianism and the Fate of the Earth conference.
Economics As If Future Generations Mattered
One of the key barriers to taking action on the paramount issues of our time is that these problems are the end result of entrenched cultural, economic and social systems.