Organization and the ecological crisis – a lecture series
A lecture series where leading scholars present research on the ecological crisis and organization, offering concrete proposals for better organizing and new forms of societal research engagement. The series provides a platform for dialogue, networking, and collaboration among scholars and students.
Lecture 6: How to be(-come) a climate economic expert?
2000 Frederiksberg
Room: K.2.53
In a recent paper, Troels Krarup and Peter Karnøe demonstrate how, for more than three decades, the Danish Economic Councils have consistently opposed all forms of support favoring green energy technologies such as wind power and instead advocated a uniform carbon tax as the most efficient instrument for achieving climate and environmental goals. Significantly, while the councils’ advice has remained the same, wind power has transformed the energy system. In this seminar, the authors take their critique of the Danish Economic Councils as a point of departure for a discussion of expertise and the ecological crisis. Critiquing economic expertise is somewhat commonplace; offering an alternative economics less so. The seminar takes up the more difficult task that follows from their critique, reflecting not only on possible suggestions for an alternative economics, but also their own expert positions.
The talk will draw extensively on the article ‘Carbon tax, not subsidies: three decades of Danish economic council advice against green industrial policy’. Troels Krarup, Peter Karnøe. Socio-Economic Review, Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2026, Pages 1689–1707, https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag028
Program
15:00 – Lecture and Q&A
16:00 – Reception and networking
Troels Krarup is an Associate Professor at the Department of Planning at Aalborg University (Copenhagen Campus) working on the role of markets in the governance of the European energy transition.
Peter Karnøe is professor at the Department of Sustainability and Planning, Aalborg University (AAU). Mobilizing insights from evolutionary economics, STS as well as valuation and market studies, his research on the making of wind power and other energy resources, in particular their sociotechnical worlds, and social and economic valuations.