Neva Goodwin on The New Economy: Does it exist, and what does it mean?
Tuesday 24 February, 2015
4 - 5:30pm, $0
New School, Vera List Center
6 East 16 Street, Floor 10
Neva Goodwin is co-director of the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University. She is active in a variety of attempts to systematize and institutionalize an economic theory – “contextual economics” – that will have more relevance to contemporary real world concerns than does the dominant economic paradigm. She has edited more than a dozen books, and is the lead author of two introductory textbooks: Microeconomics in Context and Macroeconomics in Context.
Over the past decade Dr. Goodwin led the creation of a “social science library” called Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being which contains nearly 10,000 full bibliographic references, representing seven social sciences, and including full text PDFs for a third of the referenced articles and book chapters. This is being distributed widely in 138 developing and transitional countries, with special efforts to reach institutions with poor or no Internet access.
Dr. Goodwin received a MPA from Harvard Kennedy School ('82) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Boston University ('87).
This event is sponsored by The New School for Social Research.