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Andrew Simms

Andrew Simms

British environmentalist and political economist

Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He is a research associate with the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and Fellow at the New Economics Foundation.[1]

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Andrew Simms advocates the notion of ecological debt as an illustration of the degree to which economies operate beyond environmental thresholds,[2] and initiated the annual marking of the day when the world is estimated to enter 'overshoot'.[3]

Career

Andrew Simms also served as Policy Director for ten years, Communications Director, and established the Climate Change Programme for the foundation. He co-authored The Green New Deal and co-founded the Green New Deal Group,[4] the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org [5] and cooperative think tank the New Weather Institute.[6] He was a Principal Speaker of the Green Party.[7]

A political economist and environmentalist, Simms studied at the London School of Economics for a master's degree in development and international political economy, and has written a number of reports on climate change, globalisation and localisation, development issues, debt (conventional and ecological debt), finance and banking, corporate accountability, genetic engineering and food security. He coined the term 'clone towns' to describe the economic and homogenising effects of chain retailers on town centres.[8]

Publications

Simms is the author of several books including:

  • Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet & the Wealth of Nations (2005, 2009) Pluto Press
  • Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters (2007)
  • Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? (co-author)(2008)
  • The New Economics co-authored with David Boyle (2009) Routledge ISBN 978-1844076758[9]
  • Eminent Corporations: the Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation (co-author)(2010)
  • Cancel the Apocalypse: the New Path to Prosperity (2013) Little, Brown and Company
  • Knock Twice: 25 Modern Folk Tales for Troubling Times (2017)

Notes and references

  1. [1]
    Guardian: Andrew Simms
  2. [2]
    Simms, Andrew (7 April 2009). "Ecological debt: No way back from bankrupt". BBC. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
  3. [3]
    "Earth overshoot day 2013". Archived from the original on 21 June 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  4. [4]
    Green New Deal group
  5. [5]
    One hundred months
  6. [6]
    newweather.org
  7. [7]
    New Economics Foundation biography Archived July 6, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  8. [8]
    "Interview: Andrew Simms". The Guardian. 21 March 2007. Archived from the original on 21 October 2021.
  9. [9]
    Simms, Andrew; Boyle, David. "The New Economics A Bigger Picture". Routledge. Retrieved 21 June 2015.


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