It’s Never Too Late to Take Climate Action
The depiction of the climate crisis as a cliff—once we fall off the edge, it’s game over—is nonsense
Stories by James K. Boyce
James K. Boyce is a professor emeritus of economics and senior fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is author of Economics for People and the Planet: Inequality in the Era of Climate Change (Anthem Press, 2019).
Carbon Dividends: A Win-Win for People and for the Climate
Putting a price on emissions and sending the proceeds to the public is a sound environmental and economic strategy
The Case for ‘Universal Property’
An idea pioneered by Alaska could inoculate society against extreme inequality
How Economic Inequality Harms the Environment
Power imbalances facilitate environmental degradation—and the poor suffer the consequences