Jonathan M Harris
Jonathan M. Harris holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has served as President of the United States Society for Ecological Economics, Adjunct Associate Professor of International Economics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and as consultant and lecturer at the Brown University Watson Institute International Scholars of the Environment Program.
Subjects: Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
Biography
Jonathan M. Harris holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Boston University. Dr. Harris is co-author of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach (4th ed., Routledge, 2018) and of Macroeconomics in Context, Principles of Economics in Context, and Microeconomics in Context (Routledge, 2019), author of “Green Keynesianism: Beyond Standard Growth Paradigms” in Building a Green Economy: Perspectives from Ecological Economics (Robert Richardson ed., MSU Press 2013); co-editor of Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics: Responding to the Climate Challenge (Edward Elgar, 2009), New Thinking in Macroeconomics: Social and Institutional Perspectives (Edward Elgar, 2003), and of the Frontier Issues in Economic Thought volumes A Survey of Sustainable Development, A Survey of Ecological Economics, and Human Well-Being and Economic Goals. He is also editor of Rethinking Sustainability: Power, Knowledge, and Institutions; author of World Agriculture and the Environment; and co-author of environmental teaching modules on climate change, renewable energy, and environmental issues in macroeconomics. He has served as President of the United States Society for Ecological Economics, Adjunct Associate Professor of International Economics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and as consultant and lecturer at the Brown University Watson Institute International Scholars of the Environment Program and the University of the Middle East. In 2019 he was awarded the Herman Daly Award “designed to recognize individuals who have connected ecological economic thinking to practical applications and implementation of solutions that are sustainable in scale, equitable in distribution and efficient in allocationEducation
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Ph.D. Boston University
B.A. Harvard University
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Ecological Economics, Environmental Economics, Resource Economics, Macroeconomics.
Websites
Books
Articles
Responding to Economic and Ecological Deficits
Published: Apr 01, 2019 by Global Development and Environment Institute Working Papers
Authors: Jonathan M Harris
Subjects:
Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
Responding to Economic and Ecological Deficits
China’s Carbon Market: Accelerating a Green Economy in China and Reducing Global Emissions
Published: Apr 01, 2018 by Global Development and Environment Institute Working Paper No. 18-01
Authors: Jonathan M Harris, Yifei Zhang and Jin Li
Subjects:
Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
China’s Carbon Market: Accelerating a Green Economy in China and Reducing Global Emissions
Videos
Published: Feb 06, 2020
A two-minute overview of the Economics in Context Initiative