Finance and the Macroeconomics of Environmental Policies

This volume examines current and previous environmental policies, and suggests alternative strategies for the future. Addressing resource depletion and climate change are pressing priorities for modern economies. Planning energy infrastructure projects is complicated by uncertainty, as such clear government policies have a crucial role to play.

Auteur
Annela Anger, University of East Anglia, UK Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge, UK Kepa Astorkiza, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain Michelle Baddeley, University College London, UK Terry Barker, University of Cambridge, UK Ikerne del Valle, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain Giuseppe Fontana, University of Leeds, UK Ana Rosa González-Martínez, Cambridge Econometrics Michael Grubb, University College London, UK Jean-Charles Hourcade, CIRED Aurélie Méjean, CIRED Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds, UK S. ?erban Scrieciu, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria Alessandro Vercelli, SOAS, University of London, UK

Contenu

1. The Absence of Environmental Issues in the New Consensus Macroeconomics is only One of Numerous Criticisms; Philip Arestis and Ana Rosa González-Martínez 2. The Neoliberal Trajectory, the Great Recession and Sustainable Development; Alessandro Vercelli 3. The Macroeconomics and Financial System Requirements for a Sustainable Future; Giuseppe Fontana and Malcolm Sawyer 4. Financing Energy Infrastructure; Michelle Baddeley 5. The Effects of the Financial System and Financial Crises on Global Growth and the Environment; Annela Anger and Terry Barker 6. Dualisms in the Finance-Economy-Climate Nexus: An Exploratory Essay Drawing on Derridean Thinking; S. ?erban Scrieciu 7. The 'Dark Matter' in the Search for Sustainable Growth: Energy, Innovation and the Financially Paradoxical Role of Climate Confidence; Jean-Charles Hourcade, Michael Grubb and Aurélie Méjean 8. On Climate Change and Institutions; Ikerne del Valle and Kepa Astorkiza