Dr Simon Mair
Co-Investigator
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Simon is an Ecological Economist, and Lecturer in Sustainability at the University of York. He is working within our systems analysis theme.
Simon is an ecological economist, working to understand the current economy in order to build a better one. Simon’s research interests include the history of economic thought, utopian economics, and various kinds of models. He is currently working on questions of productivity, energy, value and work in sustainable economies.
Simon is Lecturer in Sustainability at the University of York. He is co-investigator on “Pedagogy Without Growth: An exploratory study of post-growth teaching in UK Business Schools”. Funded by the UK and Ireland Chapter of The UN Principles for Responsible Management Education, this project uses action research to explore teaching of degrowth and post-growth ideas in a management education context.
He is co-investigator on the NERC funded project “Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects (MSPACE)”, leading a work package using input-output models to explore links between marine resources, climate change, and regional supply chains.
He was previously co-investigator in our Powering Productivity project, exploring links between energy, wellbeing and the UK’s productivity puzzle.
Select Recent publications
Mair S 2022. Writing our way to sustainable economies? How academic sustainability writing engages with capitalism. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space.
Mair S and A Druckman 2022. The UK: a proud leader, or dishonest user of statistics?. In: Murray J, Owen A, Simas M and A Malik (ed). A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of Global Consumption: Economic, Environmental, and Social Effects of Pre-Pandemic World Trade 1990–2015. Pan Stanford.
Clift R, Mair S and G Martin 2022. Sustainability and the Circular Economy. In: Teodisu C, Fiore S and A Hospido (ed). Assessing sustainability progress: frameworks, tools and case studies. Elsevier.
Isham A, Mair S and T Jackson 2021. Worker wellbeing and productivity in advanced economies: Re-examining the link. Ecological Economics, 184.
Mair S 2020. Planetary Health and the COVID-19 epidemic: a Marxist ecofeminist analysis. The Lancet Planetary Health, 4, 12, pp. e588–96
Mair S, Druckman A and T Jackson 2020. A tale of two utopias: Work in a post-growth world. In: Ecological Economics, Vol 173.
Mair, S, Druckman, A and T Jackson 2018. Higher wages for Sustainable Development? Employment and carbon effects of paying a living wage in global apparel supply chains, Ecological Economics, 159.
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