Unmet Needs and Unused Capacities: Time Banking as a Solution
By Neva Goodwin and Edgar Cahn Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, February 2018
Category: Publications
Gender and Risk-Taking Economics, Evidence, and Why the Answer Matters
By Julie A. Nelson The belief that men and women have fundamentally distinct natures, resulting in divergent preferences and behaviours, is widespread. Recently, economists have also engaged in the search for gender differences, with a number claiming to find fundamental gender differences regarding risk-taking, altruism, and competition. In particular, the idea that “women are more risk-averse […]
Worst-Case Economics: Extreme Events in Climate and Finance
By Frank Ackerman Anthem Press, 2017 208 pages, hardcover: $48.99 Order from Amazon
Outsourced Government – The Quiet Revolution Examining the Extent of Government-by-Corporate-Contractor
By June Sekera Global Development and Environment Institute Data Brief, September 2017
Freedom of Information Act (In) Applicability to Government Contractors
By June Sekera Policy Report, Global Development and Environment Institute, September 2017
Frugal Value: Designing Business for a Crowded Planet
by Carina Millstone, Visiting Research Fellow Routledge, July 2017 Order via Routledge This book, by Visiting Research Fellow Carina Millstone, contests the notion that companies can rise to the great challenges of our time by adopting so-called ‘sustainable business’ practices. Instead, the acute ecological crisis requires an all-round rethink of what business does, and how it […]
Missing from the Mainstream: The Biophysical Basis of Production and the Public Economy
By June Sekera May 2017
Hope Below Our Feet: Soil as a Climate Solution
By Anne-Marie Codur, Seth Itzkan, William Moomaw, Karl Thidemann, and Jonathan Harris GDAE Climate Policy Brief, April 21, 2017
The Time is Ripe for Governments to Strengthen Sustainable and Food-Secure Farming
By June Sekera with The Quaker United Nations Office, March 2017
Mourning in America: Trump and the traumas of the twenty-first century
By Neva Goodwin Real-World Economics Review Part I, Issue 48, March 2017