In this essay we provide introductory comment for the collection of solicited essays on
Economics and Climate Emergency. In the first section we suggest that recent critique of the …

In this paper we ask, what is mainstream economics education conveying to its students?
Standard mainstream economics textbooks treat the environment as a specialist issue in …

In this paper, I set out some of the key aspects of the Paris COP 21 Climate Change
Agreement. The Paris Agreement was initially reported as a major success. However, this …

In Part 1 of this wide-ranging interview Tony Lawson first discusses his role in the formation
of IACR and how he relates to the generalized use of the term 'Critical Realism'. He then …

The state of contemporary economics has been a subject of discussion even before the most
recent global financial crisis. The discipline's one-sidedness has frequently been lamented …

This article offers a critique of a major recent initiative in economics teaching: the CORE
project. CORE emerged in the wake of the global financial crisis, which was also something …

Despite recent clarifications by central banks that it is indeed commercial banks that are the
main creators of the money supply, money creation processes remain as confusing and …

In this article we place Tony Lawson's account of contrast explanation in context. Lawson's
development of it is given meaning both by the roots of the approach in his work on social …

Piketty's Capital has provoked considerable debate regarding inequality. The existence of
increasing inequality creates a challenge for ecological economics. In this paper we set out …

This paper evaluates the recent reform to the curricular governance framework for UK
Economics teaching: the revised Subject Benchmark Statement document for Economics …