Peter Victor
Professor
Environmental Studies
York University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Peter Victor is an economist who has worked on environmental issues for over 40 years as an academic, consultant and public servant. He was one of the founders of the emerging discipline of ecological economics and was the first President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics. By extending input-output analysis, he was the first economist to apply the physical law of the conservation of matter to the empirical analysis of a national economy. His most recent books are Managing without Growth. Slower by Design, not Disaster (Edward Elgar, 2008) and The Costs of Economic Growth (ed) (Edward Elgar, 2013). Currently, he is collaborating with Prof. Tim Jackson on the development of ecological macroeconomics.
Research Interest
"Ecological economics Environmental policy Sustainability"
Publications
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2015 (with T. Jackson) “Towards A Stock-Flow Consistent Ecological Macroeconomics. An overview of the FALSTAFF framework with some illustrative resultsâ€, Report for the UNEP Inquiry: Design of a Sustainable Financial System. August.
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2015 (with T. Jackson), “Does credit create a ‘growth imperative’? A quasi- stationary economy with interest-bearing debtâ€, Ecological Economics, December, Vo. 120, pp. 32-48.
