About Molly

Molly is a green economist who works as an academic as well as actively in her local community and as a green politician. Molly is a Reader in Green Economics at Cardiff School of Management and Director of Cardiff Institute for Co-operative Studies. In 2006 she published Market, Schmarket: Building the Post-Capitalist Economy and her latest book Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Policy and Practice was published by Earthscan in 2009. She has also written widely on themes concerned with mutualism, social enterprise, policy responses to climate change, banking and finance, and local economies. Molly is an active member of the Green Party, standing for election at all levels and currently speaking for the Party on economic issues. She is a Director of Transition Stroud and co-ordinates its Lifestyles and Livelihoods working group, with whom she launched a local currency in Stroud in 2009. She was formerly a member of the core group of Stroud Community Agriculture and is a Director of Stroud Common Wealth.