New book about to drop!

I have to admit I didn't realize my work was cited this widely... I've never worked for a university and climate is not exactly a fashionable field within economics - so this is quite unexpected. www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/members...

Worrying. EM-DAT is an important resource. openletter.earth/the-worlds-c...

Reporting on a new working paper about the risks Mongolia faces from climate change. www.devdiscourse.com/article/othe...

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Structural economic change as dynamic resource creation – in their OxREP paper, Dimitri Zenghelis, Hector Pollitt, Jean-François Mercure, and Frank W. Geels illustrate how innovation, networks and behaviour are adopted in the global economy. doi.org/10.1093/oxre...

First sight of our upcoming book on Amazon! www.amazon.co.uk/Rethinking-C...

Lots of different contributions to how macroeconomics needs to change. Our article in the final section on modelling.

New paper in the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Schumpeter once said "Once you think about economic growth, it becomes impossible to think about anything else”. But our models don’t really do this. bit.ly/48YR3Rf

Bill Gates… the point is we don’t know what will happen when the climate warms. Every 0.1C increases chance of disaster. But he probably thought nothing could go wrong with every Microsoft product.

Necessary for meeting carbon targets and with potentially huge social benefits. It surely is time for the UK to address the gap between gas and electricity prices.

I found Joel Mokyr's Culture of Growth interesting and well worth reading. It benefited from looking beyond standard economic issues. The bits trying to reconcile with textbook economics were painful... clearly appreciated by others though...

We're recruiting new associate editors at @climate-policy.bsky.social . Come and join our great team and contribute to our mission to advance an effective response to climate change climatepolicyjournal.org/2025/08/11/c...

The Economist is going big on transformational scenarios at the moment. Three weeks ago it was AI, this week climate tipping points. These are exactly the sorts of questions economists should be looking at - but often shy away from. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Thread on this paper in @climate-policy.bsky.social last month. For so long we’ve heard about the ‘costs’ of reducing emissions. This paper adds to the growing evidence it doesn’t have to be like that. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Recent post on LinkedIn about the importance of interdisciplinary research - and not just for climate change. It also introduces ICENS lab, which takes a broader perspective. Thoughts and comments welcome! www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-in...

Based on fossil fuel growth rates from the IEA Coal Mid-Year Update, July Oil Market Report, & Gas Market Report Q3, fossil CO2 emissions would grow around 0.8% in 2025, reaching another record high... We are only half way through the year, but don't build too much expectation for peak emissions.

Glad to be finally setting up here! I will mostly be covering ways to improve economics and modelling, especially on climate and energy issues. But expect some previews from the forthcoming book with Jean-Francois Mercure. And my return to blogging...