In this post I’m linking a recent article I wrote in the Policy Matters Journal, a student-led publication hosted at the Goldman School of Public Policy in UC Berkeley. In the article, I analyze the path through Congress of the first dedicated renewable energy law passed in Chile in 2008, Law 20257. The analysis highlights … Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
An inside-outside view of a steady state economy
In this paper, I analyze the concept of a “steady state economy” that has been proposed by many authors as the alternative to limitless consumption in a finite world proposed by current economic paradigm. In this case I focus on Herman Daly’s “Economics, Ecology, Ethics: Essay towards a Steady-State economy” and challenge his views on … Continue reading
Neoliberalism, freedom, and oil
This post is the second in the series of papers I wrote for my Ecological Economics class. This time I analyze the relationships between the rise of neo-liberalism in the US from WWII and oil, mostly through a review of Tim Mitchell’s “Carbon Democracy” and references to Karl Polanyi’s “The Great Transformation“. My conclusions relate … Continue reading
Tracing the evolution of mainstream economics
This is the first of five short essays (~1500 words) that I’ll be posting. They all come from my work in an ecological economics course I took in spring of 2013 and reflect on different aspects of sustainability, consumerism and materialism, and social constructivism, all under the umbrella of climate change. This first essay traces … Continue reading
Master’s Project
To get your master (of arts or science) at the Energy and Resources Group you need to hand in a relatively big final paper that we call “Master’s Project”. We avoid using the term “thesis” just because you’re not required to develop the kind of research that a thesis – usually a doctoral one – … Continue reading
