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Are Personal Carbon Allowances the Missing Policy for Addressing Climate Change?
By Tim Thornton In recent decades, addressing climate change has gained increased attention as climate disasters have become more widespread. Read more
Going Local: Strengthening Local Economies by Building from the Bottom Up
By Neva Goodwin Decades ago, with the book Small is Beautiful, E. F. Schumacher popularized the idea of localization. He Read more
Reorienting the Economy to Prioritize Human Well-being: The Role of Government
By Ellie Hu With the goal of offering transformative visions for global ecological governance, Neva Goodwin, Distinguished Fellow at Boston Read more
COP27 and Climate Policy: the Role of Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystems
By Jonathan Harris and Anne-Marie Codur The United Nations Climate Change Conference known as COP27 took place in Sharm-El-Sheik, Egypt, this Read more
Revised Economic Thinking for a New World: New Editions of the “In Context” Textbooks
By Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar As the world has undergone seismic shifts over the last few years due to the COVID-19 Read more
Putting Modern Economics in Context: Lessons from a Soviet Curriculum Reform Project
By Stacey Yuen Editor’s note: This blog post is based on an interview with Dr. Neva Goodwin conducted in May Read more
Mad Money: The Financialization and Rising Inequality of the US Economy
By Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar A recent UN news story blames the excessive speculation in the financial markets for impeding basic Read more
The Gendered Impacts of Climate Change
By Ellie Hu Climate change has already had an observable and adverse impact on the global environment, with rising sea Read more
After COP26: Why Forests and Soils will be Crucial to Climate Policy
By Anne-Marie Codur and Jonathan Harris The latest stage in global efforts to respond to climate change was the 26th Read more
How COVID-19 Has Magnified Pre-existing Inequalities in the US
By Ellie Hu The distribution of wealth and resources in the United States has been extremely unequal in recent decades, Read more