Sustainable Growth
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China: Challenges for the Next Administration
Nov 15, 2016 | 04:00—05:30
A conversation with Isaac Stone Fish, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society’s Center for U.S. – China Relations and Asia Editor at Foreign Policy Magazine.
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The World Economy’s Growing Debt Burden
Nov 2, 2016 | 04:00—05:30
A conversation with Richard Vague, Managing Partner at Gabriel Investments and Chairman of the Governor’s Woods Foundation.
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The Private Debt Crisis
Sep 21, 2016
China is drowning in it. The whole world has too much of it. History suggests: This won’t end well.
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Who Has Space for Renewables?
Sep 19, 2016
Estimated space requirements for solar energy sufficient to power the entire world are reassuringly trivial, at 0.5-1% of global land area. For individual countries however, the challenges vary greatly, reflecting dramatic differences in population density.
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Carbon Decoupling?
Jul 26, 2016
A comment on Goher-Ur-Rehman Mir and Servaas Storm’s Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth: Production Based vs Consumption-Based Evidence on Decoupling
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A rejoinder to Michael Grubb, Annela Anger-Kraavi, Igor Bashmakov and Richard Wood
Jul 26, 2016
We are grateful to Michael Grubb, Annela Anger-Kraavi, Igor Bashmakov, and Richard Wood for their interesting, empirically rich and structurally insightful commentary on our paper on the production-based and the consumption-based Carbon Kuznets Curve (CKC).
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Working Paper Series
Carbon Emissions and Economic Growth: Production-based versus Consumption-based Evidence on Decoupling
Mar 2016
We assess the Carbon-Kuznets-Curve hypothesis using internationally consistent and comparable production-based versus consumption-based CO2 emissions data for 40 countries (and 35 industries) during 1995-2007 from the World Input Output Database (WIOD).
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Let Them Drink Pollution?
Jan 26, 2016
The tragic crisis in Flint, Michigan, where residents have been poisoned by lead contamination, is not just about drinking water. And it’s not just about Flint. It’s about race and class, and the stark contradiction between the American dream of equal rights and opportunity for all and the American nightmare of metastasizing inequality of wealth and power.
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Economic Growth, Climate Change and Environmental Limits
Nov 6, 2015
Will environmental limits, including limits on the climate system, slow or even halt economic growth? If not, how will the nature of economic growth have to shift?
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Conference paper
Green, Fair and Productive: How the 2012 Rio Conference can move the world towards a sustainable economy
Apr 2011
Our shared concern – 20 years after Rio, yet poor progress towards wellbeing
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Conference paper
Toward a Sustainable World Economy
Apr 2011
All cultural narratives, worldviews, religious doctrines, political ideologies, and academic paradigms are ‘social constructs.’
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Sustainable Economics with Introductory Remarks from Jim Balsillie
Apr 9, 2011 | 07:00—09:10
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Conference paper
Globalization and Scarcity: Multilateralism for a world with limits
Apr 2011
Globalization has improved the living standards of hundreds of millions of people – but growing resource scarcity means it risks becoming a victim of its own success.
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Conference paper
Material intensity, productivity and economic growth
Apr 2012
Many models of economic growth exclude materials from the production function. Growing environmental pressures and resource prices suggest that this may be increasingly inappropriate.
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Conference paper
Moving Towards Climate Justice: Overcoming Barriers to Change
Apr 2012
The present paradox, as ecological economist Bill Rees is fond of putting it, is simple yet profoundly troubling: “The ecologically necessary is politically infeasible, but the politically feasible is ecologically irrelevant.”