Author: Stacey Yuen
By Dr. Brian Roach Twenty years since the initial publication, the Fifth Edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach by Jonathan M. Harris and Brian Roach is now available from Routledge. The text provides coverage of core theoretical concepts from environmental and ecological economics, along with topical chapters on climate change, fisheries, […]
By Stacey Yuen, with contributions by Dr. Brian Roach Two of the world’s most renowned energy agencies, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA), have been consistently inaccurate at forecasting the growth of renewable energy. Their underestimations gives us some optimism for the global energy transition that is urgently required […]
By Stacey Yuen In advance of the upcoming November climate summit in Glasgow, President Joe Biden has pledged to slash US greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030, and 100 percent by 2050 − a marked departure from the climate denialism that characterized much of his predecessor’s term. With that commitment, the US now […]
By Dr. Tim Thornton Anybody familiar with economics, particularly with how economics is taught, will know full well how self-interest constrained by competition is regularly championed as a general recipe for progress. However, the complexity of the real-world seldom matches the simplicity of this recipe. Indeed, many situations require a concern with the interests of […]
By Stacey Yuen Urgent policy shifts and economic restructuring are critical for forestalling a climate disaster, but what does the past decade reveal about whether we—as scholars, policymakers and global citizens—are on the right track? Could we forge better paths? In a candid address at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, Dr. Neva Goodwin, […]
ECI Senior Researcher Julie Nelson’s article, “Economics and Community Knowledge-Making,” was published in the Journal of Economic Methodology in January 2021. The paper suggests that the economics discipline is beginning to acknowledge the social nature of knowledge-making, which contrasts with the field’s tradition of imagining objectivity as “something attainable by lone (traditionally male) researchers.” Positive […]
Senior Research Fellow June Sekera has been providing a series of briefings for U.S. Congressional staff, as well as climate and environmental organizations, on carbon capture and storage. The briefings are organized by Food and Water Watch, as part of a series of briefings on “False Solutions” to climate change. Click here to access a […]
In March 2021, the ECI was featured in the Teaching Resources for Economics at Community Colleges (TRECC) newsletter. Noting crucial developments in the field of economics, including emerging ideas from behavioral, institutional, feminist, and ecological economics, the following question was posed: how should the mainstream curriculum be reformed to better reflect those developments and our […]
By Stacey Yuen The tendency of mainstream economics to focus almost exclusively on market activities suggests a fundamental problem with the discipline: it is gender biased. It fails to recognize and value many forms of work that are mostly done by women and are essential to the functioning of our societies, such as caring for […]
By Pratistha Joshi Rajkarnikar With over 272 million individuals living outside their countries of birth, migration has become one of the most salient features of our times. Much of the literature on migration focuses on the economic benefits of remittances sent home by these migrants. As of 2018, remittances amounted to USD 689 billion and […]