Simon Mair
Trying to think and do economics differently. Paid labour: Academic Ecological Economist, teaching and research in systems thinking, productivity, value, postgrowth. Unpaid labour: mostly parenting. Cross cutting: screaming into the void.
- It's time to talk about emissions and growth again. Certain people got very excited about a substantial number of wealthy nations decoupled growth from carbon. This is good news. But: global emissions grew 2023-2024, and almost certainly grew again in 2025.
- In a blog post for @cusp.ac.uk I argue that countries are not decoupling fast enough and that growth remains a barrier to genuine progress on carbon emissions. But the increased rate of decoupling should prompt reflections from environmentalists and ecological economists. cusp.ac.uk/themes/aetw/...
- We have used growth as a way into conversations about scale. The growth argument has always really been an argument about how big the economy should be, and even if growth stopped tomorrow, we would have a mountain to climb in terms of adequate rates of decarbonisation.
- Reposted by Simon MairPleased to see this paper now published - in it, I examine the status of Keynes as a post-growth economist www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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- Call for abstracts: Learning from Non-Capitalist Economies. Deadline 19th December. Details here: esee2026ghent.be/wp-content/u... Abstracts will form sessions at the 16th Biennial Conference of the European Society of Ecological Economics in Ghent. More details th thread below:
- In this track we're looking for work that builds on the traditions in Ecological Economics that have a broad conception of what the economy is and can be.
- This includes feminist analyses of households, anthropological explorations of commons activity, modelling of eco-socialist systems, and deep historical or archaeological work from past societies.
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