James Boyce

James K. Boyce is a Senior Fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute and Professor Emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. His latest books are Economics for People and the Planet: Inequality in the Era of Climate Change (Anthem, 2019) and The Case for Carbon Dividends (Polity, 2019). His earlier books include 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). He is the 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), an outcome of the Adjustment Toward Peace project that he directed for the United Nations Development Programme, and co-editor of Peace and the Public Purse (Lynne Rienner 2007), Reclaiming Nature: Ecological Restoration and Environmental Justice (Anthem Press, 2007) and Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership (Island Press, 2003). His current work focuses on climate change, environmental justice, capital flight, and the relationship between economic policies and violent conflict.