Climate crisis economics / Stuart P.M. Mackintosh.
Climate Crisis Economics draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary tr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st. |
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| Summary: | Climate Crisis Economics draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities - political, economic, business - are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonized economy and sustainable future. The book draws out policies and practices with both national and local examples, which will demonstrate various complementary approaches that are empowering states and people as they seek to pursue the carbon neutral goal. The author delineates a climate crisis economics approach that is fit for purpose and which can help achieve necessary climate change goals in the decades ahead. Ensuring economic and ecological sustainability is neither easy nor cost-free; there is no single solution to the climate crisis. All aspects of our economies, policies, business, and personal practices must come into alignment in order to succeed. Frustratingly, we know what is needed and we have many of the technologies and systems to make the leap to a carbon neutral economy, yet we still fail to act with alacrity. Leaders, communities, and businesses must shift their narratives in how they talk about and think about the climate crisis. In doing so, in making the narrative leap to a new understanding about what is possible and necessary, we can stop endangering our common future and single, fragile, global habitat, and instead set the stage for Green Globalisation 2.0 and a new, sustainable industrial revolution. Climate Crisis Economics will appeal to academics, students, investors, and professionals from varying disciplines including politics, international political economy, and international economics. Written in an accessible voice, it draws on work in fields outside of and in addition to politics and economics to make a case for climate crisis economics as an approach to addressing the climate change challenge ahead. |
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| Item Description: | <P>Prologue: An Imagined Vision of the Near Future Without Action on Climate Change</P><P>1. Crises as Crucibles for Change</P><P>2. Obscured Horizons and Middling Models</P><P>3. Setting Targets, Pricing Carbon, and Punishing Laggards</P><P>4. Demographics, the Changing Investment Narrative Landscape, and Market Incentives</P><P>5. Building a Decarbonised World: Institutional Innovations that Reinforce Market Outcomes</P><P>6. A Greening of Industrial Policy: Speeding Diffusion and the Achievement of Net Zero</P><P>7. Greening our Stories, Internationally, Nationally, and Especially Locally</P><P>8. On Decarbonization, Economic Growth and a Just Transition</P><P>9. A Race of Tipping Points</P><P><EM>Post-Script: Change Happens Slowly and Then Fast</EM></P> |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781000441765 1000441768 9781000441710 1000441717 9781003037088 1003037089 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Stuart P. M. Mackintosh is Executive Director of the Group of Thirty (www.g30.org), an influential international economic and financial think tank comprised of the most senior figures in central banking, finance, and academia. In 2016 he was elected by his peers as President of the National Association of Business Economics, the leading US organization of professional economists. He is also a Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University, UK. He has a deep and broad international professional network across the US and globally and he is the author of The Redesign of the Global Financial Architecture (2016; 2nd ed. 2021). www.stuartmackintoshauthor.com. |