How well do our assumptions about the global challenges of energy, environment and
economic development fit the facts? Energy prices have varied hugely between countries …

The Stern report conducts an estimation of Greenhouse Gas control costs weighed against
the benefits of avoiding damages at the global scale. As I show, Stern and colleagues are …

A variety of global metrics indicate the Earth has overshot its capacity to supply source and
sink resources without substantial negative feedback. Here the relationship between …

Recent publications have revived interest in Herman Daly's proposal for a Steady-State
Economy. This paper argues, first, that the idea of a steady-state capitalism is based on …

Global climate change is perhaps the most serious problem the world faces. Despite its
severity, mainstream economic approaches to addressing the problem fail to get to the root …

The current mainstream model of the global economy is based on a number of assumptions
about the way the world works, what the economy is, and what the economy is for (Table …

The levels of investment needed to mobilize an energy system transformation and mitigate
climate change are not known with certainty. This paper aims to inform the ongoing dialogue …

This paper addresses the role of neoclassical methodologies in ecological economics and
the contradictions these methodologies pose to the field's critical founding principles. We …

In the hue and cry about the 'green economy'leading up to Rio+ 20 a number of simple
points have been neglected. First, the purposes of the economy have been too narrowly …

At a time of increasingly rapid environmental deterioration and climate change, sustainability
is one of the most important issues facing the world. Can we create a sustainable society …