Michael Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3706391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5440-7381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
After Neoliberalism
Mainstream economic theory and policy have struggled to address (and in some cases have made worse) the multiple economic crises since 2008—global financial crash, austerity, stalled productivity, wage stagnation, rising inequality, inflation, climate and environmental breakdown. At the root of this failure is the ‘ontological individualism’ which underpins neoclassical economic theory: the belief that individual households and firms are sovereig…
Labour, left and right
Since the Second World War, the Labour Party has alternated between periods in which it has been positioned further to the left and others when it has been further to the right. The standard explanation for those oscillations is electoral–ideological. Labour moves to the right (towards the political centre) when it prioritises electoral considerations, usually after a period in opposition. It moves to the left when it prioritises ideology, usuall…
Indigenous Community Perspectives of Food Security, Sustainable Food Systems and Strategies to Enhance Access to Local and Traditional Healthy Food for Partnering Williams Treaties First Nations (Onta…
In partnership with communities of the Williams Treaties First Nations in southern Ontario (Canada), we describe an approach to work with communities, and highlight perspectives of food security and sustainability, including priorities and opportunities to revitalize local food systems as a pathway to food security and food sovereignty. The objectives of our project were: (1) to build a shared understanding of food security and sustainability; an…
Reflections on COP26
The UN climate conference COP26 in November 2021 concluded with the agreement of the Glasgow Climate Pact. This article examines the key elements of the pact and their significance. Explaining the structure of the 2015 Paris Agreement, it shows why the requirement for countries to return with stronger emissions reduction commitments in 2022 was in practice the most the conference could have achieved to ‘keep alive’ the goal of limiting the global…
Rethinking Capitalism
Explaining Radical Policy Change
An innovative framework combining the ‘multiple streams’ ( MS ) and ‘punctuated equilibrium’ ( PE ) models of agenda‐setting is used to explain the transformation of UK climate change and energy policy under the Labour Government between 2006 and 2010. The coupling of the problem, politics and policy streams by policy entrepreneurs ( MS ), and changes in policy image and institutional venues ( PE ), were critical in opening a policy window, disru…
Introduction
Beyond the Social Market
Despite its worthy motives, social market philosophy provides neither a useful analytical framework for understanding modern capitalism, nor the policy tools to address our present economic and social predicament. The concept of ‘market failure’, with its underlying assumption of market equilibrium, does not capture the systemically adverse outcomes of collective market forces. A more sophisticated understanding of capitalist economies, and the s…
The Presenting Past
Co-Opting Christian Chorales
Research Article| October 01 2010 Co-Opting Christian Chorales: Songs of the Ku Klux Klan MICHAEL JACOBS MICHAEL JACOBS Michael Jacobs is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin– Colleges. He writes and lectures on American intolerance movements and popular culture. He is currently writing a history of the Ku Klux Klan in Wisconsin. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2010) 28 (3): 3…
Citizens and wetlands
Sustainable Development as a Contested Concept
Here Michael Jacobs notes that sustainable development has come to mean all things to all people but argues this does not mean it has no theoretical or policy relevance. It is a ‘contested’ rather than an empty concept, and Jacobs identifies four ‘faultlines’ that produce two distinct conceptions of sustainable development which he calls ‘radical’ and ‘conservative’. The faultlines are: limits to growth, environmental protection, equity, and part…
Environmental Democracy
La ciudad en el siglo XXI
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo organizó en marzo de 1997 un "Simposio de ciudades y Foro de buenas prácticas en gestión urbana" . En él se debatieron las nuevas ideas sobre el papel de los centros urbanos en el futuro de la región, los problemas que enfrentarán al asumir este papel y las soluciones que se vislumbran al final del siglo. Este evento se realizó conjuntamente con la Asamblea Anual de Gobernadores del Banco en Barcelona. La vis…
Sustainability and markets
(1997). Sustainability and markets: On the neoclassical model of environmental economics. New Political Economy: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 365-385
Public identification with sustainable development
The Quality of Life
Introduction
Real world
Book notes
Animal Genetic Engineering: Of Pigs, Oncomice and Men edited by Peter Wheale and Ruth McNally. London: Pluto Press 1995. Pp.xix + 276; index. £40 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7453 0754 X and 0755 8 Potential Benefits of Integration of Environmental and Economic Policies: An Incentive‐Based Approach to Policy Integration by DRI and others for the European Commission (European Communities Environmental Policy Series). London and Brussels:…
Free market environmentalism’
Work Measurement in Public Service Management – A Review of Australian and Overseas Developments
The theme of the 1979 Annual Conference, “Managing with Less”, reflects prevailing opinion that the rate of growth of public sector resources will continue to be restrained for the foreseeable future, and that tough times are still ahead for public sector managers. This paper explores the developments in one management tool for coping with less – work measurement (WM). The paper is one outcome of a 3‐months study, undertaken within the Auditor‐Ge…
Explaining Radical Policy Change
An innovative framework combining the ‘multiple streams’ ( MS ) and ‘punctuated equilibrium’ ( PE ) models of agenda‐setting is used to explain the transformation of UK climate change and energy policy under the Labour Government between 2006 and 2010. The coupling of the problem, politics and policy streams by policy entrepreneurs ( MS ), and changes in policy image and institutional venues ( PE ), were critical in opening a policy window, disru…
Public identification with sustainable development
Sustainability and markets
(1997). Sustainability and markets: On the neoclassical model of environmental economics. New Political Economy: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 365-385
Labour, left and right
Since the Second World War, the Labour Party has alternated between periods in which it has been positioned further to the left and others when it has been further to the right. The standard explanation for those oscillations is electoral–ideological. Labour moves to the right (towards the political centre) when it prioritises electoral considerations, usually after a period in opposition. It moves to the left when it prioritises ideology, usuall…
Reflections on COP26
The UN climate conference COP26 in November 2021 concluded with the agreement of the Glasgow Climate Pact. This article examines the key elements of the pact and their significance. Explaining the structure of the 2015 Paris Agreement, it shows why the requirement for countries to return with stronger emissions reduction commitments in 2022 was in practice the most the conference could have achieved to ‘keep alive’ the goal of limiting the global…
Real world
Environmental Democracy
After Neoliberalism
Mainstream economic theory and policy have struggled to address (and in some cases have made worse) the multiple economic crises since 2008—global financial crash, austerity, stalled productivity, wage stagnation, rising inequality, inflation, climate and environmental breakdown. At the root of this failure is the ‘ontological individualism’ which underpins neoclassical economic theory: the belief that individual households and firms are sovereig…
Introduction
Beyond the Social Market
Despite its worthy motives, social market philosophy provides neither a useful analytical framework for understanding modern capitalism, nor the policy tools to address our present economic and social predicament. The concept of ‘market failure’, with its underlying assumption of market equilibrium, does not capture the systemically adverse outcomes of collective market forces. A more sophisticated understanding of capitalist economies, and the s…
The Quality of Life
Introduction
Free market environmentalism’
Work Measurement in Public Service Management – A Review of Australian and Overseas Developments
The theme of the 1979 Annual Conference, “Managing with Less”, reflects prevailing opinion that the rate of growth of public sector resources will continue to be restrained for the foreseeable future, and that tough times are still ahead for public sector managers. This paper explores the developments in one management tool for coping with less – work measurement (WM). The paper is one outcome of a 3‐months study, undertaken within the Auditor‐Ge…
Free market environmentalism’
Real world
Book notes
Animal Genetic Engineering: Of Pigs, Oncomice and Men edited by Peter Wheale and Ruth McNally. London: Pluto Press 1995. Pp.xix + 276; index. £40 (hardback); £13.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 7453 0754 X and 0755 8 Potential Benefits of Integration of Environmental and Economic Policies: An Incentive‐Based Approach to Policy Integration by DRI and others for the European Commission (European Communities Environmental Policy Series). London and Brussels:…
Sustainability and markets
(1997). Sustainability and markets: On the neoclassical model of environmental economics. New Political Economy: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 365-385
Public identification with sustainable development
The Quality of Life
Introduction
La ciudad en el siglo XXI
El Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo organizó en marzo de 1997 un "Simposio de ciudades y Foro de buenas prácticas en gestión urbana" . En él se debatieron las nuevas ideas sobre el papel de los centros urbanos en el futuro de la región, los problemas que enfrentarán al asumir este papel y las soluciones que se vislumbran al final del siglo. Este evento se realizó conjuntamente con la Asamblea Anual de Gobernadores del Banco en Barcelona. La vis…
Sustainable Development as a Contested Concept
Here Michael Jacobs notes that sustainable development has come to mean all things to all people but argues this does not mean it has no theoretical or policy relevance. It is a ‘contested’ rather than an empty concept, and Jacobs identifies four ‘faultlines’ that produce two distinct conceptions of sustainable development which he calls ‘radical’ and ‘conservative’. The faultlines are: limits to growth, environmental protection, equity, and part…
Environmental Democracy
Citizens and wetlands
Co-Opting Christian Chorales
Research Article| October 01 2010 Co-Opting Christian Chorales: Songs of the Ku Klux Klan MICHAEL JACOBS MICHAEL JACOBS Michael Jacobs is an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin– Colleges. He writes and lectures on American intolerance movements and popular culture. He is currently writing a history of the Ku Klux Klan in Wisconsin. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Music (2010) 28 (3): 3…
The Presenting Past
Explaining Radical Policy Change
An innovative framework combining the ‘multiple streams’ ( MS ) and ‘punctuated equilibrium’ ( PE ) models of agenda‐setting is used to explain the transformation of UK climate change and energy policy under the Labour Government between 2006 and 2010. The coupling of the problem, politics and policy streams by policy entrepreneurs ( MS ), and changes in policy image and institutional venues ( PE ), were critical in opening a policy window, disru…
Introduction
Beyond the Social Market
Despite its worthy motives, social market philosophy provides neither a useful analytical framework for understanding modern capitalism, nor the policy tools to address our present economic and social predicament. The concept of ‘market failure’, with its underlying assumption of market equilibrium, does not capture the systemically adverse outcomes of collective market forces. A more sophisticated understanding of capitalist economies, and the s…
Rethinking Capitalism
Indigenous Community Perspectives of Food Security, Sustainable Food Systems and Strategies to Enhance Access to Local and Traditional Healthy Food for Partnering Williams Treaties First Nations (Onta…
In partnership with communities of the Williams Treaties First Nations in southern Ontario (Canada), we describe an approach to work with communities, and highlight perspectives of food security and sustainability, including priorities and opportunities to revitalize local food systems as a pathway to food security and food sovereignty. The objectives of our project were: (1) to build a shared understanding of food security and sustainability; an…
Reflections on COP26
The UN climate conference COP26 in November 2021 concluded with the agreement of the Glasgow Climate Pact. This article examines the key elements of the pact and their significance. Explaining the structure of the 2015 Paris Agreement, it shows why the requirement for countries to return with stronger emissions reduction commitments in 2022 was in practice the most the conference could have achieved to ‘keep alive’ the goal of limiting the global…
Labour, left and right
Since the Second World War, the Labour Party has alternated between periods in which it has been positioned further to the left and others when it has been further to the right. The standard explanation for those oscillations is electoral–ideological. Labour moves to the right (towards the political centre) when it prioritises electoral considerations, usually after a period in opposition. It moves to the left when it prioritises ideology, usuall…
After Neoliberalism
Mainstream economic theory and policy have struggled to address (and in some cases have made worse) the multiple economic crises since 2008—global financial crash, austerity, stalled productivity, wage stagnation, rising inequality, inflation, climate and environmental breakdown. At the root of this failure is the ‘ontological individualism’ which underpins neoclassical economic theory: the belief that individual households and firms are sovereig…
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