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publications

The Prospect of Just Emissions as an International Norm of Environmental Governance

Cambridge Journal of Climate Research, 2024

So-called luxury emissions of Global North countries need to be curtailed in line with, and also more rapidly than, the increase in emissions from Global South nations. I argue there is a growing need for radical social austerity and climate conservatism on the part of large emitters.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2024). "The Prospect of Just Emissions as an International Norm of Environmental Governance." Cambridge Journal of Climate Research 1(2), 194-203.

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talks

ESG Investing and Carbon Footprint Measurement

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Presentation was the culmination of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) Social Innovation Internship programme (2017). After the completion of my internship at Veris Wealth Partners, an impact investing firm in Portsmouth, NH, I showcased my contributions to the firm’s impact report and answered questions fielded from an academic audience as a group with other interns from different placements.

Stabilizing Monetary Policy in an Uncertain World

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Group presentation for a collegiate competition judged by Federal Reserve economists and academics. My contribution was the modeling section of the talk, where I explained the exploratory analysis and PCA model results.

Using Machine Learning for Macroeconomic Prediction

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Presentation given to UConn’s Economics Society, a student organization. I presented results from a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) methodology applied to a large macroeconomic dataset, FRED-MD, from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank.

American Derivative Securities

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Presentation on US options pricing given to advanced PhD level class on Financial Econometrics. Talk based on Schreve’s “Stochastic Calculus for Finance II” book, Chapter 8.

St. Augustine’s Confessions

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Presented a flash talk to the Harvard Extension School (HES) professional development reading group. Tutorial based on the life of St. Augustine and his lesser known work “Confessions.”

Darwin and Natural Theology

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Talk given for Spring Term course, Life and Mind, on the Edinburgh MSc in Philosophy, Science and Religion. Based on the work of Leonard Lessius (1554-1623), T. H. Huxley, Richard Dawkins, and John Polkinghorne.

Political Liberalism and Moral Pluralism

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Presentation of my research proposal for my MSc dissertation. Feedback-based talk on Rawlsian liberal political theory and climate ethics.

Complex Environmental Systems

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An examination of the intersection between systems science and climate change, particularly from a political perspective. Presentation to Kai Spiekermann’s class on “The Political Philosophy of Environmental Change” at LSE.

Newsflash on Climate Change Misinformation

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Presented a short intervention in the seminar for Kai Spiekermann’s class on the political philosophy of environmental change. Described the origins of misinformation as well as outlined which social and political communities are most vulnerable to misinformation.

Ecological Ethics and Religion

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Explored intersections between ecological ethics and religious thought at the Science & Religion Forum General Conference.

teaching

Teaching Assistant

Postgraduate Course, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, 2025

Teaching Assistant for two courses: “Introduction to Quantitative Text Analysis” and “Quantitative Data Analysis and Statistical Graphics with R”

Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate Course, University College London (UCL) Department of Political Science, 2026

TA for two courses: POLS0008 “Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods” and POLS0060 “Science, Scientific Discovery and Statistics.”

training

LSE Summer School 2018

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Three month summer school. Courses included advanced econometrics, advanced statistics, and the economic history of financial markets.

Frederic Bastiat Fellowship 2023-2024

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Year-long programme based around in-person conferences on classically liberal political economy hosted by the Mercatus Center in Fairfax.

LSE Faith Centre 2024

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Two extracirricular modules on climate change and religion and conflict and peacebuilding in the context of religion, organized by the LSE Beecken Faith and Leadership Programme.

Ronald Coase Fellowship 2025-2026

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This prestigious fellowship, online in 2025-6, provides training in the Austrian, Virginia, and Bloomington schools of political economy.

working_papers

Climate Change Misinformation and Integrity in Environmental Communication

While our beliefs about crucial political issues such as climate change are shaped by a variety of psychological and socioeconomic influences, this essay argues that one source of those beliefs comes from the responsibility that climate scientists have, as domain experts on the science and policy of climate change, to protect the public from misinformation.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2024). "Climate Change Misinformation and Integrity in Environmental Communication." Working Paper.

An Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene: Environmental Justice and Religion

This essay examines the relationship between critical theological theories within avant-garde scholarship on religion as a social phenomenon and the equally, if not more, pressing revelations of climate scientists regarding the ecological crisis which is partly the result of a society whose faith has been misplaced in a form of unsustainable technology which threatens to destroy us.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2024). "An Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene: Environmental Justice and Religion." Science & Religion Forum 2024 Conference.

The Social Construction of Religious Political Morality

This is my LSE dissertation. It is currently a conference paper, as I prepare for publication.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2024). "The Social Construction of Religious Political Morality." Working Paper.

The Effect of Climate Misinformation on Climate Policy Uncertainty

If the impacts of online fake news were well understood, then the spread of work covering misinformation would be more grounded in concrete solutions, including ones implementable by the political leaders who create regulations and the technocrats who moderate online public fora.

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2025). "The Effect of Climate Misinformation on Climate Policy Uncertainty." This is the first paper of my PhD at the University of Essex.

Interdisciplinarity in International Sustainable Business

This essay proposes that international business - characterized most prominently by the multinational corporation (MNC) - is defined by the types of social problems it wishes to solve. It is also defined by the manner, strategy, or approach that it uses to define the problem landscape and technological or product-related solution space.

Recommended citation: James Rice and Charles Mensah. (2025). "Interdisciplinarity in International Sustainable Business." Working paper with Charles Mensah.

Climate Change and Complexity in Classical Liberal Theories of Development

In this essay, I develop a complexity-based theory of social interaction within legal constraints, highlighting how rule-of-law institutions enable cooperation even in the face of intricate political and economic pressures based on inequities in mitigating and preparing for climate change..

Recommended citation: James Rice. (2025). "Climate Change and Complexity in Classical Liberal Theories of Development." Working Paper.

writing