Young scholars: join us on the Italian coast in beautiful Termoli for YSI @ STOREP 2025 pre-conference! June 10-14.

Topics related to States and Markets, Urban and Regional Economics, Political Economy of Europe, and Keynesian Economics are welcome!

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We also asked students what they would change about their education “if they had a magic wand”. We argue that fact that only 6 (of over 500) directly mentioned “pluralism” is good evidence that our results are not skewed by our friends at Rethinking Economics.

There was also a very clear link between levels of pluralism and overall satisfaction (with the fancy econometrics in the paper!)

In the survey, we found very clear links between students saying their degree was pluralist degrees, and saying that they had developed a range of skills and learned about a number of topics.

I am very happy to announce the publication of a paper on the effect of pluralist education in Italian economics programs, created over many years with Oleksandra Sokolenko and Michela Ciccotosto. #econsky link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Finally, I put the concepts and methods together to create a number of "extreme" pathways which are difficult to represent with existing models, but could be explored with a more heterodox toolkit.

I also cover some of the methodologies associated with heterodox economics which are already being put to use in climate-economy modeling.

...and an even longer list of specific examples of how these concepts could be applied.

The paper looks at the field of climate-economy modeling and asks what heterodox economics can do to make it more interesting and useful. Highlights include a very long list of concepts from heterodox economics which could be useful for modeling climate and energy systems…

Packed room of ecological macroeconomists in Pisa today for the Young Scholars Initiative workshop. Big thanks to the organizing team on a great event! #econsky

Starting the young scholar presentations at the “Macroeconomic challenges of the green transition” workshop at the University of Pisa! #econsky

Finally, my model points to a worrying long-term trend: unless we 100% decarbonize the economy, growth in carbon-intensive sectors will send emissions up again after an initial ‘transition’. /End

Luckily, it looks like we can offset the employment losses in these sectors with higher growth in labor-intensive sectors, even if overall GDP growth rates are much lower!

The main result is that even with extreme progress on energy efficiency and renewable energy, we will still need demand reductions in carbon-intensive sectors in order to bring down global emissions.

... I built my own model, which represents economic production, energy use, labor use, and emissions. It owes its inspiration (and data!) to the MEDEAS model.

The goal of the model was to find transition pathways which reduce emissions without killing jobs.