The U. S. House of Representative has created a “Special Committee on the Climate Crisis” and recently invited comments on its proposals for climate change mitigation. A member of Congress who is active in climate matters invited Neva Goodwin, Distinguished Fellow at the ECI and Co-Director of the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts […]
The economy is not a stand-alone system, but is embedded in, and dependent on, the contexts of the natural world and the built environment, as well as human social systems – the latter including history, culture and ethics. There are well-known externalities in which economic activities have side-effects that are either harmful or beneficial to […]
By Monica Hernandez June 2019
By Padmashree Gehl Sampath and Walter Park April 2019
By Jonathan M. Harris April 2019
GDAE Senior Research Associate Jonathan M. Harris presented a paper on “Responding to Economic and Ecological Deficits” at the Eastern Economic Association 45th Annual Conference in New York City on March 1-3, 2019. The paper calls for a more sophisticated analysis of ecological deficits and a balanced assessment of economic deficits in the context of […]