Simon Mair

Simon is an ecological economist, trying 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 (un)sustainable economies.

Select Recent publications
2026, Green, A., Mair S., ‘Material Flow Analysis for Archaeology: Developing an account of medieval social metabolism using the excavation archive from Wharram Percy, Journal of Archaeological Science, 106524
2026, Godé, L., Mair S., and Gómez-Baggethun, E. ‘Labour Productivity Gains: Genuine emancipation from work or offshoring?’, Ecological Economics, 239, 108778
2025, Florido Roca, A. and Mair, S. ‘Tensions between the Carbon, Employment and Value Added Generated by Marine Sectors: Triple Bottom Line Analysis using a Novel Input-Output Table for the UK’, Sustainable Development, 33,1, 1366-1380
2025, Mair S., ‘The Relationship between Energy and Capital: Insights from The Wealth of Nations’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 57,2, 244-259
2024, Mair, S. ‘Language, Climate Change, and Cities beyond Capitalism’. Journal of City Climate Policy and Economy, 2, 2 ,171-188 cited in:
2022, Clift R, Mair S and G Martin. ‘Sustainability and the Circular Economy’ Ch 2 in ‘Assessing sustainability progress: frameworks, tools and case studies’ Elsevier, Hospido, A., Fiore, S., and Teodisu,
2022, Mair, S., ‘Writing Our Way to Sustainable Economies? How Academic Sustainability Writing Engages with Capitalism’, Environment and Planning A, 54, 7, pp.1460–1474