Climate Economics

This book is a philosophical critique of the economics of climate change from both an ethical and philosophy of economics perspective. Mitigating climate change is not so much a scientific problem, but rather a political, social and above all an economic problem. A future without greenhouse gas emissions requires a radical transformation towards a sustainable low-carbon economy and society. How this transformation could be achieved raises numerous economic questions. Many of these questions remain untouched, although economists are equipped with a suitable toolkit and expertise.

This book argues that economists have a social responsibility to carry out more research on how global warming could be stopped and that, ultimately, economic analysis of climate change must be a political economic approach that treats the economy as part of a wider social system. This approach will be of interest to policy makers, educators, students and researchers in support of more pluralism in economic research and teaching.

Links a problem of society (climate change) to a problem of science (neoclassical dominance in economics) and demonstrates why a problem within science has relevance for society and nature. Provides justification for more pluralism within economics from a societal and philosophical perspective using the example of climate change. Reviews current mainstream climate economics from the perspective of philosophy of science and ethics and derives academic and social responsibilities of economists

Auteur

Michael W. M. Roos is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Macroeconomics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Franziska M. Hoffart is a Researcher at the Institute of Macroeconomics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Contenu
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Importance of Climate Change in Economics.- Chapter 3: Mainstream Climate Economics.- Chapter 4: What is Problematic about Mainstream Climate Economics?.- Chapter 5: Why We Do Not Have More Pluralism.- Chapter 6: Climate Change and Responsibility.- Chapter 7: Concluding Thoughts.