Tilman Hartley is postdoctoral researcher at MESH, affiliated with HESCOR (Cultural Evolution in Changing Climate: Human and Earth System Coupled Research, funded by the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia 2023–2026). Tilman is a political economist researching how societies manage resource constraints. He uses historical case studies to examine socio-ecological change, using models drawn from economics, ecology, and political science. The ultimate goal of his research is to learn what will help our own society's transition to a more sustainable economy. He is also affiliated with the Transitions in Economy and Society group at Utrecht University and with the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
Contact: ehartley[at]uni-koeln.de
Selected Publications:
- Hartley, Tilman. (2024). ‘State Crisis Theory: A unification of institutional, socio-ecological, demographic structural, world-systems, and revolutions research.’ Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution 15(1) https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4zf15659
- Hartley, Tilman, Giorgos Kallis (2021). ‘Interest-bearing loans and unpayable debt in slow-growing economies: Insights from ten historical cases.’ Ecological Economics https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107132
- Hartley, Tilman, Jeroen van den Bergh, Giorgos Kallis (2020). ‘Policies for equality under low or no growth: A model inspired by Piketty.’ Review of Political Economy 32(2): 243-258 https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2020.1769293
- Hartley, Tilman (2019). ‘The continuing evolution of ownership.’ PLoS ONE 14(2): e0211871 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0211871
- Hartley, Tilman (2018). ‘Who owns the flows? Distinguishing ownership of resource flows from ownership of resource stocks clarifies debates about property bundles, commons tragedies, and degrowth.’ Journal of Political Ecology 601-616. https://doi.org/10.2458/v25i1.22961