J.Christopher Proctor

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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The paper itself only covers part of what was on the survey, with data about interdisciplinary, specific schools of thought, student’s reasons for studying #econ, and demographic info put in the (very long) appendix and saved for future research (tell us if you’re interested!!

Based on these results, we think pluralist education could be an effective way to prepare economics students to work and live in a world characterized by “polycrisis”, and hope Italian universities will consider increasing pluralism as a strategy to attract and retain students.

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.

Using both a detailed review of the economics curriculum at Italian universities, and a survey of Italian economics student, we tried to understand what links we could find between pluralist education and educational quality (skill formation, topic coverage, and satisfaction).

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...

A tale of two biomes as deforestation surges in Cerrado but wanes in Amazon Brazil has managed to bring down spiraling rates of deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest in the first half of this year, but the neighboring Cerrado savanna has seen a wave of environmental destruct...

Useful context for dicussions about deforsetation and the EU-Mercosur deal. #econsky

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I'm working on something about the EU-Mercosur trade deal: anyone have references on what the deal could mean for EU agriculture given the proposed import caps? #Econsky

Expanding the possible: exploring the role for heterodox economics in integrated climate-economy modeling - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy This paper explores the degree to which heterodox economics can contribute to the development and use of climate-economy integrated assessment models. To do so, it introduces the field of integrated a...

Check it out (open access!): 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…

Expanding the possible: exploring the role for heterodox economics in integrated climate-economy modeling - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy This paper explores the degree to which heterodox economics can contribute to the development and use of climate-economy integrated assessment models. To do so, it introduces the field of integrated a...

As I'm getting set up over here on #econsky 📉🦋📈 I wanted to repost a thread about my first paper. It has climate change, mathematical modeling, heterodox theorizing, and even a little Revolution. Something for everyone!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A great opportunity for young scholars in (and around!) Italy to discuss economy-environment modeling. #econsky ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/wide-r...

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

Hi #EconSky,

Not sure if the Starter Pack party's over, but I've made an Econ Starter Pack of Starter Packs! 😄
It's a work in progress, so I may have missed some. Let me know if there's anything to add—DMs are open!
Thanks for support @economista.bsky.social!

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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.

Expanding the possible: exploring the role for heterodox economics in integrated climate-economy modeling - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy This paper explores the degree to which heterodox economics can contribute to the development and use of climate-economy integrated assessment models. To do so, it introduces the field of integrated a...

Building off my work in connecting heterodox economics and climate economy modeling... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

...titled “Economic perspectives on the energy transition: An application to climate-economy modeling” will be published online soon, but until then I have an informal version here: t.co/SE2Ts2GzUZ

New degree, new app! I defended my econ PhD and became "Doctor Proctor" last week, so prehaps it's a good time to move over to #EconSky. My thesis...