Ecological contradictions of Labour’s Green New Deal

  • This thesis examines the policy of a Green New Deal in the context of critical energy con-straints to growth. The effects of green stimulus and the expansion of global renewable ener-gy production are argued to reconstitute rather than overcome the ecological contradiction of capital accumulation. Keynesian and ecosocialist Green New Deals are presented and cri-tiqued, in particular for their adherence to policies of green growth and extraction for renew-able energy. The Green New Deal policies proposed in the Labour Party in 2019 are analysed as a Keynesian programme which has been considered as open to radical and ecosocialist op-portunities. The limits to its programme of energy reduction are contrasted to the necessary deeper transformations of industry and the economy, as well as the dilemmas and constraints of an orientation towards national economic strategy in a global ecological crisis. These sug-gest the need for economic and ecological policies that recognise both the critical energy con-straints to growth and the antagonistic relation between capital and labour internationally.

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Author:Luke Neal
Referee:Alexandre Berthe
Advisor:Birgit Mahnkopf
Document Type:Master's Thesis
Language:English
Date of first Publication:2020/09/02
Publishing Institution:Hochschulbibliothek HWR Berlin
Granting Institution:Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Date of final exam:2020/06/30
Release Date:2020/09/02
Page Number:61
Institutes:FB I - Wirtschaftswissenschaften / International Economics M.A. / Economic Policies in the age of Globalisation (EPOG2)
Licence (German):License LogoUrheberrechtsschutz