Andrew Simms is an author, analyst and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He is a research associate with the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and Fellow at the

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. Andrew Simms advocates the notion of

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as an illustration of the degree to which economies operate beyond environmental thresholds, and initiated the annual marking of the day when the world is estimated to enter 'overshoot'.

Career

Andrew Simms also served as Policy Director for ten years, Communications Director, and established the Climate Change Programme for the foundation. He co-authored ''The Green New Deal'' and co-founded the

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, the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org and cooperative think tank the New Weather Institute. He was a

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of the

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.New Economics Foundation biography
A political economist and environmentalist, Simms studied at the

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for a master's degree in development and international political economy, and has written a number of reports on climate change,

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and localisation, development issues, debt (conventional and

), finance and banking, corporate accountability,

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and

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. He coined the term 'clone towns' to describe the economic and homogenising effects of chain retailers on town centres.communities supermarkets
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Publications

Simms is the author of several books including: * ''Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet & the Wealth of Nations'' (2005, 2009)

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* ''Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters'' (2007) * ''Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth?'' (co-author)(2008) * ''The New Economics'' co-authored with David Boyle (2009) Routledge * ''Eminent Corporations: the Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation'' (co-author)(2010) * ''Cancel the Apocalypse: the New Path to Prosperity'' (2013)

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* ''Knock Twice: 25 Modern Folk Tales for Troubling Times'' (2017)

Notes and references

External links

Home of the New Economics FoundationFrom World Power: ''Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet & the Wealth of Nations''
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