This white paper lays out the guiding vision behind the Green New Deal Resolution proposed to the U.S. Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bill Markey in February of 2019. It explains the senses in which the Green New Deal is 'green' on the one hand, and a new 'New...

This Roosevelt Institute working paper argues that the Green New Deal is more internationalist than is commonly thought. Surveying its five goals, 14 projects, and 15 requirements, the author argues that the majority of them are explicitly international in scope or can be extended so that they...

This paper follows the methodology developed by J. M. Keynes in his How to Pay for the War pamphlet to estimate the “costs” of the Green New Deal (GND) in terms of resource requirements. Instead of simply adding up estimates of the government spending that would be required, we assess...

A number of Nobel Laureates in economics have been grappling with the problem of research, development, and transfer of clean technologies in order to tackle the climate crisis. Joseph Stiglitz has been investigating how intellectual property laws could be recalibrated and redesigned to better...

This chapter considers the opportunities and challenges for an effective ‘Green New Deal’ (GND), with a focus on the U.S. and Europe. We begin by reviewing the intellectual history of the GND and consider how the recent shifts in macroeconomic policy following the Covid-19 pandemic might...