Jonathan M. Harris

Jonathan M. Harris is Senior Research Associate at the Tufts University Global Development and Environment Institute. His current research is on the macroeconomics of global environmental issues, particularly climate change. Recent articles include  “Responding to Economic and Ecological Deficits,” April 2019; and “China’s Carbon Market: Accelerating a Green Economy in China and Reducing Global Emissions” with Yifei Zhang and Jin Li, April 2018.

Dr. Harris is the author of “Green Keynesianism: Beyond Standard Growth Paradigms” in Robert Richardson ed., Building a Green Economy: Perspectives from Ecological Economics; co-author of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach, and of Macroeconomics in Context, Microeconomics in Context, and Principles of Economics in Context. He is co-editor of Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the Climate Challenge, New Thinking in Macroeconomics: Social and Institutional Perspectives, and of the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought volumes A Survey of Sustainable Development, A Survey of Ecological Economics, and Human Well-Being and Economic Goals. He is also editor of Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions; author of World Agriculture and the Environment; and co-author of environmental teaching modules on climate change, renewable energy, and environmental issues in macroeconomics.

Dr. Harris is former President of the United States Society for Ecological Economics, and has served on the boards of the United States and International Societies for Ecological Economics.  He has served as Adjunct Associate Professor of International Economics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and as consultant and lecturer at the Brown University Watson Institute International Scholars of the Environment Program and the University of the Middle East. He holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University.