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Reorienting the Economy to Prioritize Human Well-being: The Role of Government

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By Ellie Hu With the goal of offering transformative visions for global ecological governance, Neva Goodwin, Distinguished Fellow at Boston University Economics in Context Initiative (ECI), was invited to give a talk in August 2022 on her years of experience developing the theory and application of economics to account for the social and environmental contexts […]

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Putting Modern Economics in Context: Lessons from a Soviet Curriculum Reform Project

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By Stacey Yuen Editor’s note: This blog post is based on an interview with Dr. Neva Goodwin conducted in May 2021. In 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Academy of Sciences began sourcing for an American economics textbook for translation and use in the Soviet Union. They requested help from […]

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