James K. Boyce
Senior Fellow
Professor Emeritus
James K. Boyce received his Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University. His latest book is On the Trail of Capital Flight from Africa: The Takers and the Enablers (co-edited with Léonce Ndikumana, Oxford University Press 2022). He is the author of Economics for People and the Planet: Inequality in the Era of Climate Change (Anthem 2019), The Case for Carbon Dividends (Polity 2019), Economics, the Environment and our Common Wealth (Edward Elgar 2013), Investing in Peace: Aid and Conditionality After Civil Wars (Oxford University Press 2002), The Political Economy of the Environment (Edward Elgar 2002), The Philippines: The Political Economy of Growth and Impoverishment in the Marcos Era (Macmillan 1993), and Agrarian Impasse in Bengal: Institutional Constraints to Technological Change (Oxford University Press 1987), and co-author of Africa's Odious Debts: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent (Zed Books 2011) and A Quiet Violence: View From a Bangladesh Village (Zed Press 1983). He is the editor of Economic Policy for Building Peace: The Lessons of El Salvador (Lynne Rienner 1996), and co-editor of Reclaiming Nature: Ecological Restoration and Environmental Justice (Anthem Press 2007), Peace and the Public Purse (Lynne Rienner 2007), and Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership (Island Press 2003). Professor Boyce's current work focuses on environmental ethics and climate change.
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Recent Research
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Updated Indexes from PERI Name top Climate, Air, and Water Polluters
January 2024
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Greenhouse Suppliers 100: A Ranking of Corporate Producers of Greenhouse Gas Precursors in the USA
September 2023
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Greenhouse 100 Suppliers Index Names Top National and State Suppliers of Fossil Fuels
October 2023
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Environmental Inequality in Industrial Brownfields: Evidence from French Municipalities
March 2023
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Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing: Can They Be Reconciled?
March 2023
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Air Toxics at School
February 2023
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Naming Worst U.S. Corporate Polluters
December 2022
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Environmental Justice and Carbon Pricing
September 2022
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U.S. Coal Producers and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, 2020
July 2022
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The Environmental Consequences of Inequality
April 2022