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James K. Boyce

James Boyce

Professor Emeritus of Economics

Economics and the Developing World
Environmental and Energy Economics

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Email: boyce [at] econs [dot] umass [dot] edu
Phone: (413) 577-0816

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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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