Care and unpaid labor, gendered labor markets, environmental limits, commons, valuation of nature, and justice in economic metrics.
How Marxian and ecological economists use ‘metabolism’ to describe society’s exchange with nature—and why the ‘metabolic rift’ became a key bridge between red and green thought.
Development economics has long treated indigenous land as either empty, common, or ripe for privatization — and getting this wrong has had devastating consequences for people and forests alike.
The economic models that inform climate policy embed assumptions about discounting, damages, and risk that are far more political than their technical appearance suggests.
Herman Daly argued that the economy must eventually stop growing in physical scale — an idea that mainstream economics has struggled to absorb and that degrowth advocates have sometimes distorted.
James Tobin's proposal for a tiny tax on currency trades was meant to calm markets — but it became a symbol for much larger debates about finance, sovereignty, and global justice.
Ester Boserup's 1970 book put gender into development economics and challenged Malthus on population — and her ideas are more relevant than ever for climate adaptation.
The climate crisis has split economists and activists into camps. One says we can grow our way to sustainability. The other says growth itself is the problem. Here's what each side actually argues.
A 1970s campaign to pay women for domestic labor sparked a fierce debate about the boundaries of 'the economy' — one that has never been fully resolved.
GDP was never designed to measure everything that matters. Feminist economists have spent decades showing what gets lost when we ignore the massive, gendered economy of unpaid care.