Avoiding a Great Depression in the Era of Climate Change

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_4177
dc.contributor.author	Bardsley Nicholas
dc.title	Avoiding a Great Depression in the Era of Climate Change
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	If loan issue falls faster than repayments, money becomes increasingly scarce, leading to deflationary pressures and unemployment. Central banks have responded by ‘quantitative easing’, a regressive form of money printing which buys off the national debt. Such credit could instead finance green infrastructure, health and social care, a basic income, and debt relief. Fiscal policy expansion which is not monetised, in contrast, results in crowding out. Given the ecological crisis caused by greenhouse emissions, the aim ought not to be resumption of business as usual. A social-ecological response to the crisis would deploy a mixture of public credit creation deployed in prioritised sectors, progressive taxation, and direct curbs on greenhouse emissions.
dc.relation.ispartof	Innovation in Business, Economics & Finance
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2020-07-31
dc.dateAccepted	2020-06-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2020-06-03
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-443-1/avoiding-a-great-depression-in-the-era-of-climate/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-442-4/020
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8574
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-442-4
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Central Bank
dc.subject	Central Bank
dc.subject	Climate change
dc.subject	Climate change
dc.subject	Fiscal policy
dc.subject	Fiscal policy
dc.subject	Great Depression
dc.subject	Great Depression
dc.subject	Quantitative Easing
dc.subject	Quantitative Easing
dc.subject	Unemployment
dc.subject	Unemployment

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Avoiding a Great Depression in the Era of Climate Change

Nicholas Bardsley University of Reading, UK

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If loan issue falls faster than repayments, money becomes increasingly scarce, leading to deflationary pressures and unemployment. Central banks have responded by ‘quantitative easing’, a regressive form of money printing which buys off the national debt. Such credit could instead finance green infrastructure, health and social care, a basic income, and debt relief. Fiscal policy expansion which is not monetised, in contrast, results in crowding out. Given the ecological crisis caused by greenhouse emissions, the aim ought not to be resumption of business as usual. A social-ecological response to the crisis would deploy a mixture of public credit creation deployed in prioritised sectors, progressive taxation, and direct curbs on greenhouse emissions.

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July 31, 2020

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June 30, 2020

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June 3, 2020

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978-88-6969-442-4

Keywords: Quantitative Easing • Climate change • Central Bank • Fiscal policy • Great Depression • Unemployment

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