
Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the Climate Challenge (Hardback)
Jonathan M. Harris (editor), Neva R. Goodwin (editor)Published: 30/04/2009
What are the likely economic effects of climate change? What are the costs of substantial action to avert climate change? What economic policies can be effective in responding to climate change? The debate has broad implications for public policy. However, it also raises fundamental questions about economic analysis itself, and moves issues of environmental policy from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic level. Taking global climate change seriously requires a re-examination of macroeconomic goals. Economic growth has been closely linked to expanded use of energy, primarily fossil fuels. The assumption of continuing economic growth, in turn, leads economists to discount future costs, including the generational impacts of climate change. Challenging conventional concepts of growth implies different development paths both for rich and poor nations. This volume brings together contributions from scholars around the world to address these issues.
Scholars, researchers and students of economics and development studies along with policymakers and non-governmental organizations will find this insightful book of great interest.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 9781847208484
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 654 g
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 24 mm
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