Tag Archives: environmental economics

Review of Kate Raworth’s Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like the 21st-century economist.  Good read. Is Kate Raworth being utopian? I would say that Kate Raworth's work is similar to Mariana Mazzucato's in that they both propose out of the box solutions to addressing contemporary challenges. They are significant in that they are starting points for reflection, inquiry, conversation and debate.  Raworth challenges the growth model of conventional economics and Mazzucato...

Whenever the topic of economic growth is broached, there is a common and understandable reaction along the lines that growth is ecologically unsustainable or socially harmful. Since one of the preoccupations of this blog is demand-led growth, it is perhaps worth pausing to reflect on the appropriateness of the topic. This can be broken down into two parts. Why consider growth as such? And why emphasize the possibility that growth is demand led?... heteconomistGrowth is Good?Peter Cooper

Chris Williams reviews Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique by Paul Burkett and John Bellamy Foster, Haymarket Books, 2017.... As shown by Foster and Burkett, Marx and Engels believed that to be truly free, humanity not only needed to overcome the alienation of labor but simultaneously our alienation from nature, both bestowed on us by capitalism Capitalism privileges property ownership over people and the environment. Marx and Engels go far beyond a mere utilitarian conception of nature...