{"id":1969,"date":"2019-10-02T09:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T13:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/?page_id=1969"},"modified":"2019-10-13T03:47:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T07:47:45","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The mission of the <strong>Economics in Context Initiative (ECI)<\/strong> is to advance the theory, teaching, and application of economics to serve the essential goals of humanity \u2013 goals that must include the fostering of equitable societies in sustainable ecological surroundings.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/about-us\/about-us\/\">Economics in Context (ECI) Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/about-us\/people\/\">People\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/about-us\/contact\/\">Contact Us<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lp.constantcontact.com\/su\/WDRaPAC\/ECI\">Sign Up for our Newsletter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The ECI is a new institute housed at Boston University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/gdp\">Global Development Policy (GDP) Center<\/a> that builds on the work of the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ase.tufts.edu\/gdae\/\">Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE)<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>at Tufts University. While the ECI essentially replaces GDAE\u2019s Theory and Education program, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GDAE remains an active institute at Tufts.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/\" class=\"button\">Visit the GDP Center website<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of the Economics in Context Initiative (ECI) is to advance the theory, teaching, and application of economics to serve the essential goals of humanity \u2013 goals that must include the fostering of equitable societies in sustainable ecological surroundings. Economics in Context (ECI) Overview People\u00a0 Contact Us Sign Up for our Newsletter The ECI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5268,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2151,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1969\/revisions\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}