Ian Gough on Climate Change, Capitalism and a Just Eco-Social Transition

Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtBGDSfsLyc

Presentation of Ian Gough's new book Heat, Greed and Climate Change, with comments from Kate Raworth.

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Pat Conaty's comments:

" It took me some time to review the lecture you sent us Mike G a couple of months ago by Ian Gough at the LSE on his new book Heat, Greed and Climate Change. Thanks so much. This is really good for several reasons. First I like the way he makes solid sense of the concept of Moral Economy to encapsulate a re-embedding of economics within social and ecological constraints. Also I like how he uses the Kate Raworth Doughnut Economics illustration to operationalise this approach. Second he shows the necessity of uniting Social Policy with Climate Policy and he frames this within his Eco-welfare state thinking. Thirdly he contrasts meeting human needs versus unconstrained greed and shows how through eco-social policies to do this. Fourth as an economist and social policy expert he is superb at defining basic needs and the primary ones being social participation, health/well being and autonomy. He then expands these to include a list of Basic Needs ."