Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the Climate Challenge

The $140 book (edited by Jonathan M. Harris, Director of the Theory and Education Program and Neva R. Goodwin, Co-Director of the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, and published by Edward Elgar) is a bit hard to characterize.  On the one hand (obviously) it is a technical overview of an arcane subject, written by specialists for specialists.  On the other hand, it contains some extremely useful cal pieces, organized into an instructive  pattern that makes a great deal of sense.   One of these pieces is chapter 4, “The right to development in a climate constrained world,” which will not be unfamiliar to readers of this site.

Here’s the Table of Contents:

Introduction
Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin

PART I: THE SCOPE OF THE CHALLENGE
1. Understanding the Challenge of Global Warming
Lloyd J. Dumas

2. The New Climate Economics: The Stern Review versus its Critics
Frank Ackerman

3. Economics and Climate Change: Resilience, Equity, and Sustainability
Neva R. Goodwin

4. The Right to Development in a Climate-Constrained World
Paul Baer, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha

PART II: MACROECONOMIC THEORY PERSPECTIVES
5. The Economic Fundamentals of Global Warming
Duncan K. Foley

6. Energy Productivity, Labor Productivity, and Global Warming
Lance Taylor

7. Macroeconomics and Sustainable Development: Applying the Sustainomics Framework
Mohan Munasinghe

8. Ecological Macroeconomics: Consumption, Investment and Climate Change
Jonathan M. Harris

PART III: POLICY OPTIONS FOR RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE
9. Cap and Dividend: How to Curb Global Warming While Promoting Income Equity
James K. Boyce and Matthew Riddle

10. Policies for Funding a Response to Climate Change
Brian Roach

11. The New EU Emissions Trading Scheme: A Blueprint for the Global Carbon Market?
Christian Egenhofer

12. Implementation of Sustainable Development in Poland
Andrzej Kassenberg

13. Climate Change from the Investor’s Perspective
Adam Seitchik

Index