Economics for People and the Planet: Inequality in the Era of Climate Change

Written by James Boyce

Narrated by James Boyce

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 – of What?

Chapter 2. The Twin Tragedies of Open Access

Chapter 3. Pursuing Profits – 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. Environmentalism’s 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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Release date: Jul 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781667033174

James Boyce

James Boyce is the author of Born Bad (2014), 1835 (2011) and Van Diemen's Land (2008). Van Diemen’s Land, won the Tasmania Book Prize and the Colin Roderick Award and was shortlisted for the NSW, Victorian and Queensland premiers’ literary awards, as well as the Prime Minister’s award. Tim Flannery described it as “a brilliant book and a must-read for anyone interested in how land shapes people.” 1835, won the Age Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, the Western Australian Premier's Book Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. The Sunday Age described it as “A first-class piece of historical writing”. James Boyce wrote the Tasmania chapter for First Australians, the companion book to the acclaimed SBS TV series. He has a PhD from the University of Tasmania, where he is an honorary research associate of the School of Geography and Environmental Studies.