Climate Economics: A Call for More Pluralism and Responsibility

By Franziska M. Hoffart, Michael Roos, Franziska M. Hoffart

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030484254
• ISBN13: 9783030484255
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"