Week 5 | Tuesday 21 May 2024, 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Radcliffe Humanities Building
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Speaker: Dr. Joan Martínez-Alier
The industrial economy is not circular. It is entropic, with an enormous "entropy hole" or "circularity gap" at its centre. This is the main cause of the conflicts at the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal. We elicit the different social values displayed at such conflicts.
Joan Martinez-Alier is an Emeritus Professor of Economics and Economic History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He was awarded a Balzan prize in 2020 and the Holberg prize in 2023 as a scholar of ecological economics, political ecology and environmental justice. He is widely recognized as one of the most authoritative scholars in environmental studies.
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