Climate Economics (eBook)

A Call for More Pluralism And Responsibility

Michael Roos, Franziska M. Hoffart (Autoren)

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2020
XI, 170 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-48423-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This book is a philosophical critique of the economics of climate change from both an ethical and philosophy of economics perspective. Mitigating climate change is not so much a scientific problem, but rather a political, social and above all an economic problem. A future without greenhouse gas emissions requires a radical transformation towards a sustainable low-carbon economy and society. How this transformation could be achieved raises numerous economic questions. Many of these questions remain untouched, although economists are equipped with a suitable toolkit and expertise.

This book argues that economists have a social responsibility to carry out more research on how global warming could be stopped and that, ultimately, economic analysis of climate change must be a political economic approach that treats the economy as part of a wider social system. This approach will be of interest to policy makers, educators, students and researchers in support of more pluralism in economic research and teaching.

Michael W. M. Roos is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Macroeconomics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Franziska M. Hoffart is a Researcher at the Institute of Macroeconomics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.11.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Sustainability, Environment and Macroeconomics
• Reihe/Serie: Palgrave Studies in Sustainability, Environment and Macroeconomics
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 170 p. 8 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Climate change policy recommendations • Critique of mainstream economics • Economics of climate change • Economics of global warming • Greenhouse Gases • Integrated assessment model DICE • Neoclassical dominance in economics • Nicolas Stern • Philosophy of economics • Pluralism in economics • Reform of economics • Responsible Science • Risk minimisation strategy • William Nordhaus
• ISBN-10: 3-030-48423-8 / 3030484238
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-48423-1 / 9783030484231