Economics for People and the Planet: Inequality in the Era of Climate Change
by James K. Boyce (Author)

About the Author
James K. Boyce is a senior fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute and professor emeritus of economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. His previous books include Economics, the Environment, and Our Common Wealth (2013), Reclaiming Nature (2007), Natural Assets (2003) and The Political Economy of the Environment (2002).

About this book
Growing the Good brings together recent essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality, and the economy.
Part One, Rethinking Economics and the Environment, challenges some common assumptions, including the beliefs that economic growth is incompatible with environmental sustainability, capitalist firms single-mindedly pursue profits, and human beings are inherently bad for nature.
Part Two, Environmental Injustice, opens with the author's 2017 Leontief Prize lecture, and discusses how inequalities in the distribution of wealth and power shape both the distribution of environmental harm and the magnitude of environmental degradation.
Part Three, The Political Economy of Climate Policy, addresses the pre-eminent environmental challenge of our time, highlighting how progressive climate policies not only can benefit future generations worldwide but also can improve health and economic well-being today in the countries adopting them.

Brief contents
Part I RETHINKING ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 1 LIMITS TO GROWTH – OF WHAT?
Chapter 2 THE TWIN TRAGEDIES OF OPEN ACCESS
Chapter 3 PURSUING PROFITS – OR POWER?
Chapter 4 RENT IN A WARMING WORLD
Chapter 5 UNIVERSAL ASSETS FOR UNIVERSAL INCOME
Chapter 6 UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME: SIX QUESTIONS
Chapter 7 ENVIRONMENTALISM’S ORIGINAL SIN
Chapter 8 RETHINKING EXTINCTION
Part II ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE
Chapter 9 INEQUALITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 10 CLEAN AIR FOR ALL
Chapter 11 LETTER FROM FLINT
Chapter 12 LET THEM DRINK POLLUTION?
Chapter 13 LETTER FROM DELHI
Chapter 14 MAPPING THE ENVIRONMENTAL RISKSCAPE
Chapter 15 MEASURING POLLUTION INEQUALITY
Chapter 16 CLEANING THE AIR AND COOLING THE PLANET
Part III CLIMATE POLICY
Chapter 17 SMART CLIMATE POLICY
Chapter 18 INVESTMENT IN DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES
Chapter 19 DIVIDENDS FOR ALL
Chapter 20 TRUTH SPILL
Chapter 21 FOUR PILLARS OF CLIMATE JUSTICE
Chapter 22 THE PERVERSE LOGIC OF OFFSETS
Chapter 23 CLIMATE POLICY AS WEALTH CREATION
Chapter 24 THE CARBON DIVIDEND
Chapter 25 KEEPING THE GOVERNMENT WHOLE
Chapter 26 AIR QUALITY CO-BENEFITS IN CLIMATE POLICY
Chapter 27 CLIMATE ADAPTATION: PROTECTING MONEY OR PEOPLE?
Chapter 28 FORGING A SUSTAINABLE CLIMATE POLICY

Series: Anthem Frontiers of Global Political Economy
Pages: 161 pages
Publisher: Anthem Press (January 16, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1783088753
ISBN-13: 978-1783088751