Blog posts

In this interview, the E4F team talks to a young academic Michelle Groenewald about her contributions in the ‘Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations’ book, where she also discusses why the democratization agenda within economics academia will remain incomplete till those aspiring for change only focus on individuals abstracted away from the knowledge, research agendas, structure and culture of economics departments, universities and the discipline as a whole.​

Read our conversation with Simon Sharpe, a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute, where he talks about his new book ‘Five Times Faster’ and rethinking the science, economics and diplomacy of climate change.

Fourth in the series on biophysical economics, we talk to Prof. Carey W. King about his research goals centered on rigorous interpretations of the past to determine the most probable future energy pathways and how he attempts to reach these goals by bridging the gaps between economic and biophysical worldviews of economic growth and structural change.

Third in the series on biophysical economics, we talk to Prof. Fischer-Kowalski about her pioneering work on the widely used metric for material and energy flows, where she also elaborates on the reasons why she thinks we have entered a period of socio-ecological transformation.

Second in the series on biophysical economics, we talk to Roldan Muradian about the various neoclassical conceptual frameworks to analyse earth’s ecosystem and their pitfalls. We also discuss why he is arguing against utilitarian environmentalism.

Exploring the field of biophysical economics, we talk to Lina about how her research traverses the whole energy chain: from exploring issues of energy extraction (through the concept of energy return on energy invested) to exploring issues of why we use energy in the way we do.

Two years ago, our journal assessment showed that economists’ response to the planetary emergency has been incommensurate with the magnitude and urgency of this crisis. Since then, other studies have added evidence to that claim (see Roos & Hoffart, 2021). In this blog piece, we examine one potential reason behind that: the lack of funding for economic research on climate change.

The social responsibility of economics and economists COP26 approaches this year in the wake of a sobering IPCC report. It is the opinion of many that the conference is among the last chances to direct the world economy on the path to sustainability, notwithstanding the societal and natural disasters already occurring around the world. However, …

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