Economics for People and the Planet, a collection of essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality and the economy, argues that there is not an inexorable trade-off between advancing human well-being and having a clean and safe environment. The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Green New Deal and the environmental costs of inequality.
Table of contents:
Foreword by Manuel Pastor
Part I: Rethinking Economics and the Environment
Chapter 1. Limits to Growth â of What?
Chapter 2. The Twin Tragedies of Open Access
Chapter 3. Pursuing Profits â or Power?
Chapter 4. Rent in a Warming World
Chapter 5. Universal Assets for Universal Income
Chapter 6. Universal Basic Income: Six Questions
Chapter 7. Environmentalismâs Original Sin
Chapter 8. Rethinking Extinction
Part II: Environmental Injustice
Chapter 9. Inequality and the Environment
Chapter 10. Clean Air for All
Chapter 11. Letter from Flint
Chapter 12. Let Them Drink Pollution?
Chapter 13. Letter from Delhi
Chapter 14. Mapping the Environmental Riskscape
Chapter 15. Cleaning the Air and Cooling the Planet
Chapter 16. The Environmental Cost of Inequality
Part III: Climate Policy
Chapter 17. Smart Climate Policy
Chapter 18. Truth Spill
Chapter 19. Four Pillars of Climate Justice
Chapter 20. The Perverse Logic of Greenhouse Gas Offsets
Chapter 21. Carbon Dividends: Climate Policy as Wealth Creation
Chapter 22. Keeping the Government Whole
Chapter 23. Freedom from Fossil Fuels is Good for Your Health
Chapter 24. Climate Adaptation: Protecting Money or People?
Chapter 25. Carbon Dividends and the Green New Deal
Chapter 26. Forging a Sustainable Climate Policy