Climate Economics

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<div>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.<br><br></div><div>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.<br></div><div><br><div><br></div></div>

Autorenportrait

<div><p><b>Michael W. M. Roos</b> is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Macroeconomics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.</p> <p><b>Franziska M. Hoffart</b> is a Researcher at the Institute of Macroeconomics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.</p></div>

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