This book provides a detailed yet succinct overview of sustainable finance, with a specific focus on its origins, its policy focus and the practitioner dimension. With fossil fuel companies still attracting investment and subsidy across the world, the book describes how we can reverse these...

Part I: Setting the scene -- Introduction: an economy within the environment -- The whistle-blowers -- Part II: Economic schools and the environment -- Neoclassical economics -- Environmental economics -- Ecological economics -- Green economics -- Anti-capitalist economics -- Part III: Issues...

While the global coronavirus pandemic has put great strain on public finances across the world, it is those countries with weaker national currencies that will feel this pressure more strongly. There is a very real risk of national defaults and of a mutually reinforcing downward spiral of...

1. Why Sustainable Finance? Why Now? -- 2. What Puts the Sustainable into Sustainable Finance -- 3. The Chequered History of Climate Finance -- 4. Sustainable Finance: The Policy Framework -- 5. Measuring and Reporting Sustainability Impacts -- 6. The Role for Central and Public Banks.

The central suggestion of this paper is that innovation in the concept of entrepreneurship is overdue and that the concept of entrepreneurship needs to be extended to accommodate its often neglected collective or pluralistic dimension, a concept we have called ‘associative entrepreneurship’....