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BostonPL_Climate Prep Week 2021: A Capitalist Crisis? 9 Books on Climate Change Economics

When it comes to climate change, the debate over the roles, responsibilities, and remedial potentials of economic systems local, national, and global smolders on. In the titles below, authors spanning the spectrum cast the specter of capitalism in parts palliative and pestiferous, virtuous and villainous, righteous and reprehensible, etc. See the blog post: https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/climate-preparedness-week-2021/

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  • The Case for Climate Capitalism

    Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis

    Rand, Tom, 1967-
    A purportedly bipartisan backing of capitalism as a putative panacea for climate catastrophe. Also available as a Hoopla ebook.
    BookToronto, Ontario : ECW Press, [2020] — HC79.E5 R36 2020x
  • Carbon Captured

    How Business and Labor Control Climate Politics

    Mildenberger, Matto,
    Investigates the insidious intersection of economic and political power permeating the conceptual continuum of 'Left' and 'Right,' revealing that when big business is backed pan-politically, meaningful mitigation is moot.
    BookCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020] — QC903 .M55 2020
  • The Spirit of Green

    the Economics of Collisions and Contagions in a Crowded World

    Nordhaus, William D.,
    In this Princeton-published publication, Nobel-winner Nordhaus, enrivonmental economist extraordinaire, grants 'green thinking' the power to preserve both economic excellence and environmental equilibrium. Also available as an Overdrive…
    BookPrinceton : Princeton University Press, 2021. — HD75.6 .N657 2021
  • Overheated

    How Capitalism Broke the Planet--and How We Fight Back

    Aronoff, Kate,
    Maligns market-driven methods for meliorating the climate catastrophe. Also available as an Overdrive eBook and eAudiobook.
    BookNew York : Bold Type Books, 2021. — HC110.E5 A785 2021
  • The New Climate War

    the Fight to Take Back Our Planet

    Mann, Michael E., 1965-
    Casts the climate crisis as a colossal clash; contenders: a pure populace and a pestilential pack of poisonous polluters.
    BookNew York : PublicAffairs, 2021. — GE170 .M365 2021
  • Adapting to Climate Change

    Markets and the Management of An Uncertain Future

    Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-
    Marshaling the methods of microeconomics, Kahn contemplates how climate impacts will be illustrated by indicators of individual economic activity.
    BookNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2021] — 363.7387 Kahn
  • Adapt and Be Adept

    Market Responses to Climate Change

    Muses that markets may be meet in mitigating the calamitous consequences of a climate angling awry. Also available as a Hoopla eBook.
    BookStanford, California : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, [2021] — QC903 .A2428 2021
  • The Sustainable Economy

    the Hidden Costs of Climate Change and the Path to a Prosperous Future

    Devine, Bob, 1951-
    Purports to present all allegedly environmental evils as really representative of economic errors and subsequently show the secrets of their solution.
    BookNew York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020. — HC106.84 .D48 2020
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline

    Learning to Fight in a World on Fire

    Malm, Andreas, 1977-
    'Economic' only insofar as it is anti-corporate, this title shatters the paradigm, so no more awful alliteration...Malm wants real political insurrection.
    BookLondon : Verso, 2021. — TD170 .M345 2021x