Jonathan Aldred
Biographic Data
| ID | 3705364 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Aldred |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Aldred |
| SIGNATURE | ALDRED J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Avoiding unemployment in a post-growth economy
There is increasing concern about rising unemployment in early industrialised countries, arising from low economic growth or the emergence of new labour-displacing technologies, notably AI. Post-growth economics has explored a number of strategies to prevent unemployment, such as working time reductions. This paper contributes to this discussion, focusing on two strategies. The first strategy involves a shift in the composition of output towards …
Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe
Journal Article Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe Get access Alessio Terzi. Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe. Harvard University Press, 2022. pp. 368. ISBN: 9780674258426. Jonathan Aldred Jonathan Aldred University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to…
Risk and Precaution in Decision Making about Nature
The normative bases for two fundamentally different approaches to environmental decision making are examined. First, orthodox “risk assessment.” In the conditions of (partial) uncertainty or ignorance prevailing in many environmental decisions, it is argued that CBA and similar forms of risk assessment should not be used in isolation. Second, the precautionary principle. Two conditions—broadly speaking, “uncertainty” and “particular threats”—seem…
Justifying precautionary policies: Incommensurability and uncertainty
Tax by Design: The Mirrlees Review (OUP, 2011)
The Ethics of Emissions Trading
This article defends three ethical arguments against emissions trading. The first argument alleges that emissions trading is morally objectionable, because it ‘commodifies’ the atmosphere. The second argument involves various objections to attaching prices to units of emissions – loosely speaking, the objection is to pricing that which is priceless or should not be priced. The third argument turns on the idea that if a large cut in emissions is t…
Ethics and Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis: Stern and After
Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy: A Comment
In a recent paper, Dryzek and List attempt a reconciliation of Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy. Such an attempt is certainly long overdue and their original article is an important first step. In some ways it succeeds. In particular, they show that much of the imagined tension between the two theoretical frameworks is illusory and due to the mistaken assumption that many of the claims of rational choice theory form part of social …
It's good to talk: Deliberative institutions for environmental policy
Most applications of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy, and almost all the controversial cases, involve the use of contingent valuation (CV) surveys. There is now a relatively well-developed critique of CV as a method of public consultation on environmental issues. Theories of deliberative democracy have been invoked which question the individualistic, preference-based calculus of CV. A particular deliberative institution which has re…
Citizens and wetlands: Evaluating the Ely citizens’ jury
The Ethics of Emissions Trading
This article defends three ethical arguments against emissions trading. The first argument alleges that emissions trading is morally objectionable, because it ‘commodifies’ the atmosphere. The second argument involves various objections to attaching prices to units of emissions – loosely speaking, the objection is to pricing that which is priceless or should not be priced. The third argument turns on the idea that if a large cut in emissions is t…
Ethics and Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis: Stern and After
Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy: A Comment
In a recent paper, Dryzek and List attempt a reconciliation of Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy. Such an attempt is certainly long overdue and their original article is an important first step. In some ways it succeeds. In particular, they show that much of the imagined tension between the two theoretical frameworks is illusory and due to the mistaken assumption that many of the claims of rational choice theory form part of social …
It's good to talk: Deliberative institutions for environmental policy
Most applications of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy, and almost all the controversial cases, involve the use of contingent valuation (CV) surveys. There is now a relatively well-developed critique of CV as a method of public consultation on environmental issues. Theories of deliberative democracy have been invoked which question the individualistic, preference-based calculus of CV. A particular deliberative institution which has re…
Citizens and wetlands: Evaluating the Ely citizens’ jury
It's good to talk: Deliberative institutions for environmental policy
Most applications of cost-benefit analysis in environmental policy, and almost all the controversial cases, involve the use of contingent valuation (CV) surveys. There is now a relatively well-developed critique of CV as a method of public consultation on environmental issues. Theories of deliberative democracy have been invoked which question the individualistic, preference-based calculus of CV. A particular deliberative institution which has re…
Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy: A Comment
In a recent paper, Dryzek and List attempt a reconciliation of Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy. Such an attempt is certainly long overdue and their original article is an important first step. In some ways it succeeds. In particular, they show that much of the imagined tension between the two theoretical frameworks is illusory and due to the mistaken assumption that many of the claims of rational choice theory form part of social …
Ethics and Climate Change Cost-Benefit Analysis: Stern and After
The Ethics of Emissions Trading
This article defends three ethical arguments against emissions trading. The first argument alleges that emissions trading is morally objectionable, because it ‘commodifies’ the atmosphere. The second argument involves various objections to attaching prices to units of emissions – loosely speaking, the objection is to pricing that which is priceless or should not be priced. The third argument turns on the idea that if a large cut in emissions is t…
Tax by Design: The Mirrlees Review (OUP, 2011)
Justifying precautionary policies: Incommensurability and uncertainty
Risk and Precaution in Decision Making about Nature
The normative bases for two fundamentally different approaches to environmental decision making are examined. First, orthodox “risk assessment.” In the conditions of (partial) uncertainty or ignorance prevailing in many environmental decisions, it is argued that CBA and similar forms of risk assessment should not be used in isolation. Second, the precautionary principle. Two conditions—broadly speaking, “uncertainty” and “particular threats”—seem…
Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe
Journal Article Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe Get access Alessio Terzi. Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe. Harvard University Press, 2022. pp. 368. ISBN: 9780674258426. Jonathan Aldred Jonathan Aldred University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Contributions to…
Avoiding unemployment in a post-growth economy
There is increasing concern about rising unemployment in early industrialised countries, arising from low economic growth or the emergence of new labour-displacing technologies, notably AI. Post-growth economics has explored a number of strategies to prevent unemployment, such as working time reductions. This paper contributes to this discussion, focusing on two strategies. The first strategy involves a shift in the composition of output towards …
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