I believe that improving human well-being and protecting our planet’s environment can and must go hand-in-hand. Too often these are juxtaposed as if they are competing ends.
James K. Boyce
James K. Boyce is an author, economist, and senior fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He holds a doctorate from Oxford University. He has written for Harper's, Scientific American, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and numerous academic journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Ecological Economics, Climatic Change, and Development & Change. He is the recipient of the 2017 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought and the 2011 Fair Sharing of the Common Heritage Award from Project Censored and the Media Freedom Foundation. In 2018 he delivered the inaugural Keith Griffin Lecture at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies on “The Political Economy of Climate Change: Challenges for Muslim Societies and the World.”