‘Capacitism’ was coined by Fraser Murison Smith in his 2020 book, A Planetary Economy (Palgrave Macmillan).  The book asks, given what we know today about the relationship between the economy and nature, how would a new economy look if we started with a blank sheet of paper, and how do we get there? 

Its companion volume, Economics of a Crowded Planet (Palgrave, 2019) asks the same question about the field of economics.

Dr Murison Smith received a BA in zoology and a D.Phil. in theoretical ecology from the University of Oxford, after which he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in ecological economics at Stanford University.  Yet, rather than pursue a career in academia, he jumped ship into consulting, software development, energy, clean vehicles, and local government, until, twenty years later, a critical review of society’s lack of progress on improving the economy’s relationship with nature led him to write these two books.

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