Climate Crisis Economics

A Race of Tipping Points

Stuart P. M. Mackintosh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040337332
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities – political, economic, and business – are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonised economy and sustainable future. Time is fast running out to avoid tipping points of no return, warns Mackintosh.

The book draws out policies and practices with both national and local examples, which demonstrate various complementary approaches that are empowering states and people as they seek to pursue the carbon-neutral goal. The author delineates a climate crisis economics approach that is fit for purpose and which can help achieve necessary climate change goals in the decades ahead. This new 2nd edition has been thoroughly updated throughout, including new material on the Biden administration and countries outside the United States and Europe; new chapters on tipping point dangers, and the need for a just transition. It includes key questions for students and supplemental reading for each chapter.

Written in an accessible voice, Climate Crisis Economics: A Race of Tipping Points makes the case for a new model of climate crisis economics, and new narratives to address the climate change dangers ahead. It will appeal to academics, students, investors, and professionals from varying disciplines including politics, international political economy, and international economics.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Prologue
• 1 Crises as Crucibles for Change
• 2 Obscured Horizons and Middling Models
• 3 Warning: Tipping Points May be Closer Than They Appear
• 4 Setting Targets, Bending the GHG Curve Towards Zero
• 5 Pricing Carbon: How to Achieve that and How High to Go
• 6 Demographics, the Changing Investment Narrative Landscape, and Market Incentives
• 7 Building a Decarbonised World: Institutional Innovations that Reinforce Market Outcomes
• 8 A Sector-by-sector Shift and Place-based Industrial Policies: Speeding Diffusion and the Achievement of Net Zero
• 9 A Just Transition: Possible But Difficult and Unlikely
• 10 Greening Our Stories Internationally, Nationally, and Especially Locally
• 11 A Race of Tipping Points
• Index