Publications
Recent writing
Books Prosperity and Justice: A Plan for the New Economy The Final Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice IPPR / Polity September 2018 Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth co-edited with Mariana Mazzucato Wiley Blackwell August 2016 Reports, essays, lectures and papers Labour, left and right: On party positioning and policy reasoning (with Andrew Hindmoor) Peer-reviewed paper British Journal of Politics and International Relations June 2022 Reflections on COP26: International diplomacy, global justice and the greening of capitalism Political Quarterly, April-June 2022 Green growth, degrowth or post-growth? Towards a synthetic understanding of the growth debate (with Xhulia Likaj and Thomas Fricke) Forum for a New Economy 18 May 2022 Beyond Growth: Towards a New Economic Approach Report of the Advisory Group to the OECD Secretary-General OECD September 2020 Ideas and Power: Reflections on Politics, Environmental Crisis and Economic Paradigm Shifts Inaugural Lecture SPERI, University of Sheffield May 2019 Paradigm shifts in economic theory and policy (with Laurie Laybourn-Langton) Intereconomics May-June 2018 Time for Change: A New Vision for the British Economy The Interim Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice IPPR September 2017 Industrial strategy: steering structural change in the UK economy (with Izzy Hatfield, Loren King, Luke Raikes and Alfie Stirling) IPPR Commission on Economic Justice discussion paper November 2016 Moving beyond neoliberalism: an assessment of the economic systems change movement in the UK (with Laurie Laybourn-Langton) Friends Provident Foundation, October 2017 Out of shape: taking the pulse of the UK economy (with Alfie Stirling and Catherine Colebrook) Institute for Public Policy Research November 2016 High pressure for low emissions: how civil society created the Paris climate agreement Juncture 14 March 2016 (also published by Inside Story 23 March 2016) Ensuring new infrastructure is climate-smart (with James Rydge and Ilmi Granoff) New Climate Economy Working Paper October 2015 Seizing the global opportunity: partnerships for better growth and a better climate [editor and co-lead author] The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate July 2015 Better growth, better climate: the new climate economy report [co-lead author] The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate September 2014 A new politics: why we need collaboration between the Greens and Labour Resurgence Nov-Dec 2013 (also published here) Explaining radical policy change: the case of climate change and energy policy under the British Labour Government 2006-10 (with Neil Carter) Public Administration August 2013 Beyond the social market: rethinking capitalism and public policy Political Quarterly Vol 84 No 1, January-March 2013 Green social democracy Fabian Review Winter 2012 (reprinted by the New Statesman 18 January 2013) Environmental and climate change policy: a case study in preventative action Prevention Working Paper New Economics Foundation January 2013 Less pain, more gain: the potential of carbon pricing to reduce Europe's fiscal deficits (with John Ward et al) Grantham Research Institute Policy Paper, London School of Economics November 2012 Green growth: economic theory and political discourse Grantham Research Institute Working Paper, London School of Economics October 2012 The practical politics of wellbeing New Economics Foundation pamphlet November 2011 Leveraging private investment: the role of public sector finance Overseas Development Institute Background Note April 2011 Articles, etc Big deal in Dubai Inside Story, 1 December 2023 From net zero to rock bottom Inside Story, 25 September 2023 The second coming of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Inside Story, 22 September 2023 Summit of ambitions Inside Story, 24 June 2023 Where's the climate action? Inside Story, 5 June 2023 Banking on Banga Inside Story, 18 April 2023 Circuses have evolved and so must UN climate summits Climate Home News, 5 February 2023 A Keir Starmer government might be more radical than you think Guardian, 4 January 2022 Agreement by ordeal Inside Story, 22 November 2022 Keynes comes to Sharm el-Sheik Inside Story, 16 November 2022 What exactly is the point of COP27? Inside Story, 4 November 2022 Rishi Redux Inside Story, 26 October 2022 Liz Truss dreams of growth - but even if she pulls it off, it won't help Britain Guardian, 10 October 2022 The Truss effect Inside Story, 8 October 2022 Trouble at the OECD Inside Story, 29 September 2022 This 'mini-Budget' is a naked exercise in redistributing wealth upwards Guardian, 23 September 2022 Who is Liz Truss - and why? Inside Story, 5 September 2022 Thatcherite mythology: eight Tory leadership candidates in search of an economic policy LSE British Politics and Policy blog, 13 July 2022 The latest Bank of England rate rise won't do much to tackle inflation - here's what could work The Conversation, 17 June 2022 Have we reached the limits to growth? (with Xhulia Likaj) Project Syndicate, 18 May 2022 Sustainable prosperity in an uncertain future: A shared agenda between green growth and degrowth (with Jonathan Barth) Heinrich Boell Stiftung, 18April 2022 Rishi Sunak and the politics of taxation SPERI blog, 5 April 2022 Green capitalists and green anti-capitalists are on the same side - for now Political Quarterly blog, 14 February 2022 The case for a UK windfall tax on oil and gas giants is unanswerable Guardian 11 February 2022 Why cynicism over COP26 is misplaced Political Quarterly blog, 7 February 2022 In an act of brazen treachery, Rishi Sunak is sabotaging Johnson's policies Guardian 22 December 2021 Glasgow kiss Inside Story 15 November 2021 "System change not climate change!" Inside Story 9 November 2021 Closing the Glasgow gap Inside Story 4 November 2021 The Glasgow paradox Inside Story 27 October 2021 Between the idea and the reality Inside Story 14 October 2021 Boris Johnson's high-stakes gamble Inside Story 29 September 2021 Western economies can't return to 'business as usual' after the pandemic Guardian 31 August 2021 Keir Starmer must lean right to win? History suggests otherwise (with Andrew Hindmoor) Guardian 5 May 2021 Taxes will have to rise at some point, but right now we need the government to spend, spend, spend Independent 19 July 2020 The economic disaster caused by the coronavirus will bring a record recession - we must act now Independent 7 May 2020 Recovering better: a green, equitable and resilient recovery from coronavirus Briefing note for European Climate Foundation 30 March 2020 Capitalism is in crisis. And we cannot get out of it by carrying on as before Guardian 8 November 2019 The environment act should be a sustainable economy act Green Alliance blog 11 October 2018 Hard-wiring the economy for justice Renewal interview 5 October 2018 Corporate fat cats are abusing their power UnHerd 28 September 2018 A more active state is essential to a new economy New Statesman 5 September 2018 Only revolutionary new laws can stop Brexit harming the environment Guardian 3 April 2018 Changing direction: how industrial strategy can help remake the UK economy IPPR and PrimeEconomics blog 17 November 2017 Why has the Bank of England raised interest rates? It ran out of options Guardian 2 November 2017 Time for a paradigm shift PrimeEconomics blog 29 October 2017 Five lessons learned from the general election IPPR blog 14 June 2017 The industrial strategy acknowledges a fundamental truth about growth New Statesman 23 January 2017 The Autumn Statement is just the start of rebuilding our economy New Statesman 18 November 2016 If Theresa May is serious about inequality she'll ditch Osbornomics (with Mariana Mazzucato) Guardian 19 July 2016 Don't panic, Brexit doesn't have to spell gloom for the environment Guardian 30 June 2016 Energy companies are cheaper and cleaner when run by the council Guardian 3 June 2016 George Osborne will soon be forced to chow his hand on climate change Guardian 17 March 2016 The Paris Agreement is highly ambitious and very clever Grantham Research Institute blog 18 December 2015 (also published as a Green Alliance blog 21 December 2015) Paris is a pragmatic climate deal New Scientist interview 15 December 2015 The Carbon Brief Interview Carbon Brief 19 October 2015 The world's climate pledges are impressive - but still not enough Guardian 16 October 2015 Reflections on the latest report of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate Grantham Research Institute blog 8 July 2015 The prospects for Paris 2015 New Statesman 6 January 2015 Lima deal represents fundamental change in global climate regime Guardian 15 December 2014 (also in Project Syndicate 15 December 2014) Emissions targets are biggest challenge for Lima climate talks Guardian 2 December 2014 Five ways Ban Ki-Moon's summit has changed international climate politics forever Guardian 24 September 2014 New Climate Economy: it's not just another report Responding to Climate Change 16 September 2014 The climate change agenda heats up Project Syndicate 7 March 2014 Making sense of Snowden Political Quarterly blog 17 October 2013 Reflections on One Nation Labour Political Quarterly blog 22 September 2013 Housing, places and people: labour and the fifth wave of social environmentalism Essay in Green Social Democracy: Better Homes in Better Places, ed Matthew Spencer et al, Green Alliance September 2013 Tax and spending (again) Political Quarterly blog 8 May 2013 and LSE Politics and Policy blog 14 May 2013 Osborne's anti-green agenda is strangling growth New Statesman 12 March 2013 and Political Quarterly blog 25 March 2013 Gove is all around: exams, public services and EU competition law Political Quarterly blog 12 February 2013 Healthy tensions in the machinery of power Letter to The Times 17 January 2013 (reprinted here) The politics of place and the greening of Labour In One Nation Labour - Debating the Future ed Jon Cruddas, Labour List e-book January 2013 (and Labour List 12 November 2012) Economie verte: mefions-nous des marchands de doute Les Echos 4 January 2013 The Doha climate change talks were a start, but 2015 will be the moment of truth Guardian 10 December 2012 A low carbon future is the one we must all fight for Guardian 2 December 2012 Politics and the planet Political Quarterly Commentary December 2012 (reprinted here) The problem at No 10 Political Quarterly blog 21 November 2012 Obama's victory: Non-lessons for Britain Political Quarterly blog 7 November 2012 The Coalition's energy policy Guardian and Political Quarterly blog 18 October 2012 Economic prospects Political Quarterly blog 11 October 2012 Ed Miliband's bravura performance Political Quarterly blog 4 October 2012 The potential role for carbon pricing in reducing European deficits (with Hector Pollitt et al) Global Policy 18 September 2012 What is the state of international climate change talks? Guardian 17 September 2012 Special advisers: an essential part of government The House Magazine 12 July 2012 (reprinted here) Leveson needed on financial crash Letter to The Times 31 May 2012 (reprinted here) Deadline 2015 Nature 12 January 2012 (reprinted here) What Durban revealed about climate's shifting allegiances Inside Story 14 December 2011 EU economy - black hole or green growth? Comment on Martin Wolf's Economists' Blog Financial Times 28 October 2011 |
Books
Prosperity and Justice: A Plan for the New Economy The Final Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice IPPR / Polity 2018 Rethinking Capitalism: Economics and Policy for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth co-edited with Mariana Mazzucato, Wiley Blackwell, 2016 The Green Economy: Environment, Sustainable Development and the Politics of the Future. London: Pluto Press, 1991. (With T. Hams et al). Greening Your Local Authority. Harlow: Longman, 1994. The Politics of the Real World. London: Earthscan, 1996 [catalogued as the Real World Coalition] (Ed.) Greening the Millennium? The New Politics of the Environment. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. Paying for Progress: A New Politics of Tax for Public Spending. London: Fabian Society, 2000 [catalogued as the Commission on Taxation and Citizenship]. Pamphlets Can Socialism Be Popular? London: Fabian Society, 1989 [with others] Sustainable Development: Greening the Economy. London: Fabian Society, 1990. (With M.Taylor) Greening Your Business: A Self-Help Manual of Environmental Good Practice for Small Firms. London: Greening Business in Islington, 1992. Sustainability and Socialism. London: Socialist Environment and Resources Association, 1994. (Ed.) Creative Futures. London: Fabian Society, 1997. Environmental Modernisation: The New Labour Agenda. London: Fabian Society, 1999. (With A. Lent and K. Watkins). Progressive Globalisation: Towards an International Social Democracy. London: Fabian Society, 2003. Refereed papers and academic book chapters (With T. Jackson) ‘Carbon Taxes and the Assumptions of Environmental Economics’. In T. Barker (ed), Green Futures for Economic Growth. Cambridge: Cambridge Econometrics, 1991, pp49-67. ‘"Free Market Environmentalism": A Response to Eckersley.’ Environmental Politics 2 (4) 1993, pp238-41. ‘The Limits to Neoclassicism: Towards an Institutional Environmental Economics’. In M. Redclift and T. Benton (eds), Social Theory and the Global Environment. London: Routledge, 1994, pp67-91. ‘Sustainable Development, Capital Substitution and Economic Humility: A Response to Beckerman’. Environmental Values 4 (1) 1995, pp57-68. 'Sustainable Development: Assumptions, Contradictions, Progress'. In J. Lovenduski and J. Stanyer (eds), Contemporary Political Studies 1995, Vol 3, Political Studies Association, 1995, pp1470-1485. (With P. Ekins) ‘Environmental Sustainability and the Growth of GDP: Conditions for Compatibility’. In V. Bhaskar, and A. Glyn (eds), The North, the South and the Environment. London: Earthscan, 1995, pp9-46. ‘Sustainability and “The Market”: A Typology of Environmental Economics’ and ‘Financial Incentives: The British Experience’. In R. Eckersley (ed), Markets, the State and the Environment: Towards Integration. London and Melbourne: Macmillan, 1995, pp46-70 and 113-128. ‘The Employment Implications of Environmental Policy’. In R. Welford and R. Starkey (eds), The Earthscan Reader in Business and the Environment. London: Earthscan, 1996, pp241-250. ‘Real World’. Environmental Politics 5 (4), 1996, pp744-751. (With P. Macnaghten) ‘Public Identification with Sustainable Development: Investigating Cultural Barriers to Participation’. Global Environmental Change 7 (1) 1997, pp5-24. ‘Environmental Valuation, Deliberative Democracy and Public Decision-Making Institutions’. In J. Foster (ed), Valuing Nature? Economics, Ethics, Environment. London: Routledge, 1997, pp211-231. ‘The Environment as Stakeholder’. Business Strategy Review 8 (2) 1997, pp25-28. ‘Sustainability and Markets: On the Neoclassical Model of Environmental Economics’, New Political Economy 2 (3) 1997, pp365-385. Reprinted in M. Kenny and J. Meadowcroft (eds), Planning Sustainability. London: Routledge, 1999. ‘The New Politics of the Environment’. In M. Jacobs (ed) Greening the Millennium? The New Politics of the Environment. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. ‘The Quality of Life: Social Goods and the Politics of Consumption’. In M. Jacobs (ed), Greening the Millennium? The New Politics of the Environment. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. ‘Sustainable Development as a Contested Concept’. In A. Dobson (ed), Fairness and Futurity: Essays on Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. ‘Environmental Democracy’. In A. Gamble and T. Wright (eds), The New Social Democracy. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. (With J. Aldred) 'Citizens and Wetlands: Evaluating the Ely Citizens' Jury', Ecological Economics 34 (2) 2000, pp217-232. 'Green growth: economic theory and political discourse'. In R. Falkner (ed), Handbook of Global Climate and Environmental Policy, Wiley Blackwell 2013 (forthcoming), and also published as Grantham Research Institute Working Paper, London School of Economics October 2012. (With John Ward, Robin Smale, Max Krahe and Samuela Bassi) Less pain, more gain: the potential of carbon pricing to reduce Europe's fiscal deficits Grantham Research Institute Policy Paper, London School of Economics, November 2012 (with Neil Carter) 'Explaining radical policy change: the case of climate change and energy policy under the British Labour Government 2006-10', Public Administration August 2013 'Beyond the social market: rethinking capitalism and public policy', Political Quarterly Vol 84 No 1, January-March 2013 (with Laurie Laybourn-Langton) 'Paradigm shifts in economic theory and policy', Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy 53 (3) 2018, pp113-118 'Reflections on COP26: international diplomacy, global justice and the greening of capitalism', Political Quarterly 93 (2), 2022, pp270-277 Other publications and published reports Environmental Auditing in Local Government. Luton: Local Government Management Board, 1991. (With I. Collis) Strategic Planning and Sustainable Development. Peterborough: English Nature, 1992. Sense and Sustainability: Land Use Planning and Environmentally Sustainable Development. London: Council for the Protection of Rural England, 1993. A Guide to the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme for UK Local Government. London: HMSO, 1993 [with R. Levett]. A Framework for Local Sustainability. Luton: Local Government Management Board, 1993 [with R. Levett and J. Bennett]. (With I. Collis) Planning for Environmental Sustainability. Peterborough: English Nature, 1994. Green Jobs? The Employment Implications of Environmental Policy. Brussels: World Wide Fund for Nature, 1994. (With P. Macnaghten et al) Public Perceptions and Sustainability in Lancashire: Indicators, Institutions, Participation. Preston: Lancashire County Council, 1995. Do Environmental Policies Cost Jobs?, Employment Policy Institute Economic Report 9 (8) 1995. (With D. Corry) Environmental Taxes: Options for an Incoming Government. London: Institute for Public Policy Research, 1997. Making Sense of Environmental Capacity. London: Council for the Protection of Rural England, 1997. (With D. Anderson et al), Innovation and the Environment: Challenges and Policy Options for the UK. London: Imperial College and Fabian Society, 2001. (With R. Patrick), Wealth’s Fair Measure: The Reform of Inheritance Tax. London: Fabian Society, 2003. (With R. Levett et al), A Better Choice: Quality of Life, Consumption and Economic Growth. London: Fabian Society, 2003. Exploring the Role of the Third Sector in Public Services. London: HM Treasury, 2005 [catalogued as HM Treasury]. (With J. Brown), Leveraging Private Investment: The Role of Public Sector Finance. London: Overseas Development Institute, 2011. 'Wellbeing: the Challenge for Labour', in C. Seaford (ed) The Practical Politics of Wellbeing. London: New Economics Foundation, 2011. Environmental and Climate Change Policy: a Case Study in Preventative Action, Prevention Working Paper, London: New Economics Foundation, 2013. Better Growth, Better Climate [co-lead author], Washington DC: The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, 2014. Seizing the Global Opportunity: Partnerships for Better Growth and a Better Climate [editor and co-lead author], Washington DC and London: The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate, 2015. (with J. Rydge and I. Granoff), Ensuring New Infrastructure is Climate-Smart, New Climate Economy Working Paper, 2015. (with Alfie Stirling and Catherine Colebrook), Out of Shape: Taking the Pulse of the UK Economy, Institute for Public Policy Research, 2016 Time for Change: A New Vision for the British Economy [lead author] The Interim Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice, Institute for Public Policy Research, 2017 (with Izzy Hatfield, Loren King, Luke Raikes and Alfie Stirling), Industrial Strategy: Steering Structural Change in the UK Economy, London: Institute for Public Policy Research, 2017 (with Laurie Laybourn-Langton), Moving Beyond Neoliberalism: An Assessment of the Economic Systems Change Movement in the UK, Friends Provident Foundation, 2017 Beyond Growth: Towards a New Economic Approach, report of the Advisory Group on a New Growth Narrative, OECD, 2020 (with Xhulia Likaj and Thomas Fricke), Green Growth, Degrowth or Post-growth? Towards a Synthetic Understanding of the Growth Debate, Forum for a New Economy, 2022 |
