By Brian Roach and Jonathan M. Harris This module is based on Chapter 19 of Harris and Roach’s textbook Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach. It presents an analysis combining trade theory with the theory of externalities to show how the basic principles of gains from trade must be modified in a real world […]
By Anne-Marie Codur and Jonathan Harris The latest stage in global efforts to respond to climate change was the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in Glasgow in November 2021. The conference brought together delegations from 197 countries with the goal of achieving major progress […]
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 […]