Peter Victor

Jan 11, 2024 | jccpe.utpjournals.press | Peter Victor

SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS Daly’s great debates call into question many aspects of mainstream economics: the steady-state economy, free trade, policy objectives and instruments, technological advancement offsetting resource and capital depletion, economic growth, and overconsumption. These debates are relevant to city leaders today. City economies are embedded in national and global economies, which are embedded in the biosphere.

Apr 17, 2023 | resilience.org | Frederic Jennings |Peter Victor |Andrew Simms |Jason Hickel

AbstractA ruling orthodoxy in academics is pathological, symptomatic of models unfit to their realms of use. Substitution assumptions do not apply in a complementary setting. Pluralism ought to be normal; this is not the case. Choices are based on imagined projections whose costs are invisible, limned theoretically yet unobserved. ‘If all we have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.’ Substitution assumptions say our relations involve a conflict of interests.