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Journal Articles

The liberal order in complex societies marred by climate change

Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, 2026

This essay develops a complexity-oriented research program for classical liberal thought, showing how rule-of-law institutions can enable cooperation amid political, economic, and environmental pressures from climate change.

Recommended citation: Rice, James. (2026). "The liberal order in complex societies marred by climate change." Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, 7, Article 16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-026-00184-6
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Beyond post-truth: Projecting the future trajectory of climate misinformation

PLOS Climate, 2026

Climate misinformation represents one of the most significant barriers to effective climate action in the 21st century. Building upon Yotam Ophir’s framework, this essay examines how climate misinformation is evolving and projects its future trajectory.

Recommended citation: Rice, James. (2026) "Beyond post-truth: Projecting the future trajectory of climate misinformation." PLOS Climate 5(5): e0000916. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pclm.0000916
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The Misinformation Challenge: How Information Freedom Promotes Democratic Discourse

Journal of Libertarian Studies, 2026

The contemporary discourse surrounding misinformation has generated unprecedented calls for government intervention in information markets and content regulation. This article argues that decentralized information governance, market competition, and robust protections for free expression offer a stronger democratic response than top-down content controls.

Recommended citation: Rice, James. (2026). "The Misinformation Challenge: How Information Freedom Promotes Democratic Discourse." Journal of Libertarian Studies, 29(2), 176-208.
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Knowledge Asymmetries and Climate Finance: An Inquiry into Environmental Market Failures and Political Legitimacy

Cambridge Journal of Climate Research, 2025

In archetypal credit and capital markets, informational gaps can lead to the withdrawal of high-impact participants and incentivise excessive risk-taking by parties unaware of the risks they face. Within climate-related markets there is a similar trend: investors systematically underestimate tail risks associated with carbon-intensive assets—including risks from climate-caused natural events, which threaten those assets—while firms strategically under-disclose their exposure to these physical and transition risks.

Recommended citation: Rice, James. (2025). "Knowledge Asymmetries and Climate Finance: An Inquiry into Environmental Market Failures and Political Legitimacy." Cambridge Journal of Climate Research, 2(2), 117-135.
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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: Rice, James. (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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Working Papers

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 Kennon Rice. (2025). "Climate Change and Complexity in Classical Liberal Theories of Development." Working Paper.

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 Kennon Rice and Charles Mensah. (2025). "Interdisciplinarity in International Sustainable Business." Working paper with Charles Mensah.

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 Kennon Rice. (2024). "The Social Construction of Religious Political Morality." 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 Kennon Rice. (2024). "An Ecological Ethics for the Anthropocene: Environmental Justice and Religion." Science & Religion Forum 2024 Conference.

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 Kennon Rice. (2024). "Climate Change Misinformation and Integrity in Environmental Communication." Working Paper.