James K. Boyce is an author, economist, and senior fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has written for Harper’s, Scientific American, Politico, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and numerous scholarly journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecological Economics, Environmental Research Letters, and Climatic Change. He received the 2011 Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award from Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation, and the 2017 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. His most recent books are Economics for People and the Planet: Inequality in the Era of Climate Change (Anthem 2019; audiobook edition with foreword by Manuel Pastor, 2021) and The Case for Carbon Dividends (Polity 2019).
James Boyce
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