Neva Goodwin

Dr. Neva Goodwin is Co-Director of the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University. She is the lead author of two introductory college-level textbooks: Microeconomics in Context and Macroeconomics in Context, published by M.E. Sharpe. These are the starting points for her effort to develop an economic theory – "contextual economics" – that will have more relevance to real world concerns than does the dominant economic paradigm. The Micro text is available in Italian, Russian and Vietnamese. Goodwin is also director of a project that has developed a "Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being." Containing a bibliography of 9,000 titles, including full text PDFs of about a third of these, this will be sent on USB drives or CDs to all university libraries in 137 developing countries. As a member of the board of Ceres, and in other activities outside of her academic work, Goodwin is involved with efforts to motivate business to recognize social and ecological health as significant, long-term corporate goals.

Essays by Neva Goodwin:  "A New Economics for the Twenty-First Century," October 2010. Lectures by Neva Goodwin: What Can We Hope for the World in 2075?, November 2010. Collected other articles click here.  Presentation on reforming economics education at June 5th founding meeting for the New Economics Institute.