Climate Crisis Economics

ISBN-13: 9780367478704 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 286 str.

Stuart P. M. Mackintosh

Opis

This book 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 decarbonised economy and sustainable future.

Spis treści

Prologue: An Imagined Vision of the Near Future Without Action on Climate Change  1. Crises as Crucibles for Change  2. Obscured Horizons and Middling Models  3. Setting Targets, Pricing Carbon, and Punishing Laggards  4. Demographics, the Changing Investment Narrative Landscape, and Market Incentives  5. Building a Decarbonised World: Institutional Innovations that Reinforce Market Outcomes  6. A Greening of Industrial Policy: Speeding Diffusion and the Achievement of Net Zero  7. Greening our Stories, Internationally, Nationally, and Especially Locally  8. On Decarbonization, Economic Growth and a Just Transition  9. A Race of Tipping Points  Post-Script: Change Happens Slowly and Then Fast

O autorze

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; 2^nd ed. 2021). www.stuartmackintoshauthor.com