Stephen Marglin is a professor for Economy at Harvard and an adviser of the World Future Council. To him the report of Sir Niclas Stern is just the beginning of linking ecology with economy. The United States still wait for their Stern-Report, he says during our interview.
Economists tend to seek small solutions for the challenges of climate change. There has not been a whole picture developed yet. The exclusive look at society with the economist's eye alone however will not provide the answers needed Stephen Marglin points out in our interview and in his new book "The Dismal Science. How Thinking Like an Ecologist Undermines Community".