Ecopolitics Online Journal No. 3


Ecopolitics Online Journal No. 3    www.ecopoliticsonline.com

Special Edition: Financial Crisis—Environmental Crisis: What is the Link?

Contents

Editor’s Introduction to the Special Edition

Rupert Read and Molly Scott Cato……………………………………………2

Articles

1. Towards a Green Philosophy of Money

Rupert Read……………………………………………………………………..3

2. The Green New Deal: Restoring Balance and Stability to the Global

Financial and Ecosystem

Ann Pettifor……………………………………………………………………..27

3. Why the ‘Green New Deal’ Requires a Green New Protectionism

Colin Hines………………………………………………………………………48

4. A New Financial Architecture Based on a Global Carbon Standard

Molly Scott Cato………………………………………………………………..61

5. The Politics of Money and Credit as a Route to Ecological Sustainability

and Economic Democracy*

Mary Mellor……………………………………………………………………..79

*The editors of

publishers of

Mellor’s paper here. In addition, Informa/Taylor and Francis have made the article available for free for

3 months from April 15

Book Reviews

Ann Pettifor:

Richard Douwaite,
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Ecopolitics would like to thank Shelley Allen and Informa/Taylor and Francis the Capitalism Nature Socialism for their generous permission to include the draft of Mary th 2009. See CNS Volume 16, Issue 2 June 2005 , pages 45 - 60 ………………………………………………………………………96 The Coming First World Debt Crisis, reviewed by Stuart Jeffery The Ecology of Money, reviewed by Richard Lawson